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Discusses the desirability, cost, and proposed agenda for a United Nations 

 Water Conference. 

 United Nations. Secretary- General (Waldheim). United Nations Revolving 

 Fund for Natural Resources Exploration: Report. [New York] 1975. 15 p. (United 

 Nations. [Document] DP/53/Rev. 1) At head of title: United Nations Develop- 

 ment Programme. 



"The Fund will provide a form of cooperation in the field of natural 

 resources to developing countries additional to the assistance available to 

 these countries through projects financed under their country programmes 

 within their indicative planning figures (IPFs), or through regional or inter- 

 regional projects when appropriate." 

 Wolfgang, Marvin E. editor, "Adjusting to Scarcity." Amials of the American 

 Academy of Political and Social Science, v. 420, July 1975. 



The articles reprinted in the volume were presented at the 79th annual 

 meeting of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, April 

 1975. In introducing the articles, the editor notes: "Whether certain com- 

 modities are trulj' in scarce natural supply relative to current use and de- 

 mand, or are available in amounts limited by political and economic pres- 

 sures, was one of the major issues considered by the participants. . . . The 

 contributors did not agree about: (1) the existence of scarcity; (2) the par- 

 ticular commodities believed to be in short supply; (3) the reasons for short- 

 ages; or (4) whether, or how, society should make adjustments to perceived 

 scarcity." 



The articles are entitled: "Population and scarcity of food," "Food, fertil- 

 izer, and the new global politics of resource scarcity," "Natural distribution of 

 metals and some economic efi'ects," "Commodity shortages and changes in 

 world trade," "Government response to commodity shortages," "Scarcity: 

 prerequisite to abundance," "Petroleum and energy," "A Creative adapta- 

 tion to a world of rising shortages," and "The developing world in the fifth 

 Kondratieff upswing." 



