Mineral resources and Third World development

On maximizing third world benefits from mineral resources

Mineral resources and geo-engineering

Metals used in everyday life are produced from ores occurring in the Earth’s crust. Geological processes are known to concentrate minerals to form ores of economic value. Mineral processing engineers concentrate these ores by mechanical and physico-chemical methods while the extractive metallurgist extracts the metals by chemical means.

Simulation/gaming in Third World Development Planning

Simulation/games have been widely used in many disciplines to represent the complexities of multiple decisions under conditions of uncertainty. They have been used in military training exercises for over 150 years, in business management training for over 30 years, and in urban planning for almost 20 years. Through deliberate abstraction of a problem to its basic elements, simula-tion games all...

Environment and Sustainable Development – A Third World Perspective

be pondering over a heavy volume – your thesis! They were all full of high praise for the author and concurred that he was a rising star in their field. You, too, were to prove them right! And I know that some, especially Alex Kiss, have been delighted to see their prediction come true. What is particularly impressive in your case is that you have continuously contributed to international environ-

Poverty and human development in the Third World.

A nation's policies with regard to children and families give a fairly direct reflection of its economic, social, and political structure. Economic, social, and political beliefs are translated into assumptions about the ideal relation of society to the family and the individual. The industrial, developed countries with their relatively high standard of living face an entirely different set of ...