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Meshing Natural Resource Use and Development with Increasing Urbanization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2015

W. B. Back
W. B. Back*
Affiliation:
Economic Research Service, Natural Resource Economics Division, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.
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C. R. Enock, speaking as a conservationist in 1913, made a plea for the merging of the sciences into a new science “ …a comprehensive and constructive science whose aim would be to evolve and teach the principles under which economic equilibrium in the life of communities may be attained”. He stated, further:

…the real science of living on the earth, or “human geography,” the adaption of natural resources and national potentialities to the life of the community, has never been formulated. The congestion of the population in towns, the desertion of countryside, the high cost of living, low wages, unemployment and so forth are related phenomena, intimately connected with the conservation and development of natural resources …

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , December 1970 , pp. 1 - 5
Copyright
Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 1970

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