The Florida Experience: Land and Water Policy in a Growth State [Hardcover]

'... [Carter] records the activities of various land exploiters as they rape and pillage Florida's land and water resources...weaving a well-written chronicle of these rapacious events. It is a book that will interest a wide variety of concerned citizens...an important book describing the land history of one of the fastest-growing states in the US.'Urban StudiesFirst Published in 2011. The early 1970s will be recorded as the years when Florida's environmental crisis, or, more specifically, its land crisis, was proclaimed. Ever since intensive settlement of Florida began a century ago, people have been trying to remake, with increasingly troubling results, a delicate, low-lying peninsula wrought by natural forces over the geological ages. This study looks at the land crisis and the challenge it presents to the state and local governments.PART I: INTRODUCTION, 1. THE LAND AND THE CRISIS, 2. THE FIGHT AGAINST PORK CHOP RULE, PART II: SOUTH FLORIDA 1: AN EVOLVING LAND POLICY, 3. LAND DISPOSAL AND DRAINAGE, 4. THE PARK AND THE FLOOD CONTROL DISTRICT, PART II: SOUTH FLORIDA II: THE PROBLEMS OF GROWTH, 5. THE YEARS OF DROUGHT AND THE LAND AND WATER LAWS OF 1972, 6. DADE COUNTY: THE MINI-STATE, 7. THE JETPORT: MISPLACED RESPONSIBILITY, 8. SAVING THE BIG CYPRESS, PART III: THE VAGARIES OF POWER, 9. THE BARGE CANAL: THE USES OF POWER, PART IV: CONCLUSION, 10. FINDING THE WAY, EPILOGUE, INDEXUSFirst edition ? The Johns Hopkins University Press 1975