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Index 



Burma, per capita gross national prod- 

 uct of, 76 

 Burton, T. E., 5ln 



Cabinet Advisory Committee, 21 



California, 17, 127, 216; rare earth dis- 

 coveries in, 57 



Calumet River, 35 



Canada: lead-zinc deposits, 57; oil re- 

 serves, 56; subsidies to mineral dis- 

 covery and development, 162; ura- 

 nium deposits, 58 



Carnegie, Andrew, 51-52, Sin, 53, 53/1, 

 54, 54/1, 65, 65/z, 80 



Catskill Mountains, 17 



Caulfield, Henry P., Jr., xi 



Central America, soil depletion in, 107 



Central Valley, development of, 8 



"Cermets," 59 



Ceylon, per capita gross national prod- 

 uct of, 76 



Challenge of Man's Future, The, 108 



Chisholm forest fire, 68 



Christy, Francis T., Jr., xi 



Ciriacy Wantrup, S. V., 158 n, 161, 

 161n 



City planning: change of emphasis 

 needed in, 151, 153, 154; the core 

 city, weakening of, 152; and develop- 

 ment of a political structure, 151-52; 

 open spaces, need for, 141, 147-48, 

 149; policies underlying, 153; see 

 also Urbanization 



Civilian Conservation Corps, 14, 16, 

 19-20 



Clarke-McNary Act (1924), 9, 10, 13, 

 31 



Clawson, Marion, \15n, 215, 215/r 



Cleveland, Grover, 5 



Coal, 9, 52, 65; Bituminous Coal Act, 

 15; percentage depletion allowance, 

 165; urban consumption of, 121 



Colorado, Uncompaghre project, 214 



Colorado River, 35; see also Upper 

 Colorado development plan 



Columbia Basin, 235 



Columbia River, 18, 212 



Commission on Increased Industrial 

 Use of Agricultural Products, 62-63 



Commission on the Reorganization of 

 Congress, 1 1 



Committee on the Regional Plan of 

 New York and Its Environs, 153 



Competitive price system: effects of, on 

 oil production, 182-83; and external 

 economies or diseconomies in natu- 

 ral resource use, 171, 175, 176, 186; 

 and mineral discovery and develop- 

 ment, 158, 163, 166-67, 186; and 

 price fluctuations in raw materials, 

 159, 167, 168-69, 186, 199-200; and 

 time distribution in resource use, 

 159-60, 177-85, 186; see also Lais- 

 sez faire 

 Connally Act (1935), 15 

 Connecticut River, 129 

 Conservation: 



administration, lack of integration 



in, 11-12 

 aesthetic approach to, 107-8; 

 and the balance of nature, 110-11; 

 change in meaning of, 54; 

 definition of, 92, 157-62, 177, 197, 



201; 

 economic accounting approach, 107, 



109; 

 ethical approach to, 108-9; 

 and exhaustion of resources, 51-53, 



65-66, 102-3; 

 future use and present consumption, 



problem of, 21-22, 25, 177-85; 

 and limitation of consumption {see 



Consumption); 

 and national security, 103; 

 objectives of, 24, 32, 53-54, 185; 

 and population {see Population 



growth); 

 and the presidency, 4, 34, 38, 229; 

 problems, changing context of, 34- 



39; 

 of raw materials and of land and 



water, distinguished, 179-80; 

 scale of values, changes in, 41-43; 

 technology, role in {see Research 



and technology); 

 see also Conservation movement; 

 Resource management; Resource 



policy; Resource use 

 Conservation movement: 



background, prior to 1908, 5; 

 commissions, studies by, 20-21; 

 conflicting factors in, 21-23, 25, 30; 

 and congressional policy, 4, 11-12; 

 external diseconomies, concern with, 



159-60; 

 federal-state co-operation, 7; 



