Planning Natural Resource Development: An Introductory Guide

George A. Pavelis

No 321887, Miscellaneous Publications from United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service

Abstract: This guide describes and illustrates principles for making rational decisions on the scope, content, and scale of natural resource development programs. Its five main parts correspond to distinguishable phases of actual resource planning. The first part outlines some concepts and procedures for selecting feasible components of development programs. The second part presents a suggested criterion for identifying an initial array of feasible project proposals. Methods are then explained for formulating preliminary single-purpose or multipurpose programs. Concluding sections reexamine the preliminary programs for further possibilities of integrating program purposes and show how a recommended “final” program might influence the income and other economic accounts of an economic system. The guide is introductory in nature, although some terminology and examples are technical when accuracy requires it. Its main purpose is to help public officials and others who do no actual planning, but who make important decisions regarding projects, better understand and judge the comparative merits of development programs.

Keywords: Community/Rural/Urban Development; Research Methods/Statistical Methods; Resource/Energy Economics and Policy; Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 35
Date: 1972-05
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.321887

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