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The Natural Resource Base Where Do We Stand?

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Reports to the Committee on Natural Resources of the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C., National Research Council, 1962: Natural Resources: A Summary Report, Pub. 1000, 40 pp. Paul Weiss, Renewable Resources, Pub. 1000-A, 127 pp. Abel Wolman, Water Resources, Pub. 1000-B, 35 pp. Dean R. Frasché, Mineral Resources, Pub. 1000-C, 32 pp. M. King Hubbert, Energy Resources, Pub. 1000-D, 141 pp. Sumner T. Pike and Athelstan Spilhaus, Marine Resources, Pub. 1000-E, 8 pp. Roger Revelle, Environment, Pub. 1000-F (not yet published). Gilbert F. White, Social and Economic Aspects of Natural Resources, Pub. 1000-G, 53 pp.
LandsbergHans H., FischmanLeonard L., and FisherJoseph L., Resources in America's Future, Baltimore, Md., Johns Hopkins Press, for Resources for the Future, Inc., 1963, 1,017 pp. $15-00.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2011

Herbert I. Schiller
Herbert I. Schiller
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University of Illinois
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Concern over natural resources not only persists in the contemporary world but may be intensifying. World war, cold war, the race in space, and the almost universal push toward economic development have individually and collectively, constructively and destructively, renewed public and private interest in natural resource requirements and availabilities. Planners in various countries, capitalist or socialist, require fairly comprehensive resource information before they can hope to succeed in preparing lines of economic policy. Answers have to be found for a wide range of questions. Is the domestic resource base sufficient to meet present and anticipated claims on it? If not, can technology be relied upon to produce substitutes or more economical processes? Failing or supplementing this, are foreign supplies realistic alternatives? And finally, how accurate are estimates of resource capabilities and needs?

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World Politics , Volume 16 , Issue 4 , July 1964 , pp. 668 - 676
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Copyright © Trustees of Princeton University 1964

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1 Galbraith, J. K., “How Much Should a Country Consume?” in Perspectives on Conservation: Essays on America's Natural Resources, ed. by Jarrett, Henry (Baltimore 1958), 89–99Google Scholar.

2 Recent Electric Power Developments in the U.S.S.R., report of the U.S. Delegation Tour to Soviet Russia, August 28-September 9, 1962, under U.S.-U.S.S.R. Exchange Agreement (Washington, U.S. Dept. of the Interior, 1962), 59Google Scholar.

3 Ibid.., 58.

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