United Nations Conference on the Conservation and Utilization of Resources (original) (raw)

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A REPORT by the Secretary-General of the United IJL Nations, presented as a result of the decision of the Economic and Social Council on March 28, 1947, to call a Scientific Conference on the Conservation and Utilization of Resources, for the purpose of exchanging information on techniques in this field, their economic costs and benefits and their interrelations, recommends that the Conference should be held in the United States during May 16–June 3, 1949. A note on the financial implications is being prepared on the assumption that it will be held at Lake Success ; but possibilities of another location are being explored. Four classes of participants in the Conference are contemplated : representatives from Government services, members of non-Government services and individuals selected by member Governments ; individual specialists selected with the advice of the Preparatory Committee to prepare papers or to lead discussion, invited by the Secretary-General, in consultation with tne Governments concerned ; representatives of the United Nations and its specialized agencies ; and representatives of interested international organisations and learned societies, and distinguished members of the professions, to be admitted at the discretion of the Secretary-General. The primary concern of the Conference is with the practical applications of science to public administration and human needs, rather than with minute refinements in research and scientific methodology, and the Conference should serve a uniquely important function by bringing together experts from many related fields. About half the time of the Conference will be given to primary sessions on subjects of general interest such as resource requirements for industrialization, the contribution of improved agriculture to living standards, the planning of multiple use development of regional resources, education in conservation, and the sources and methods for mobilization of capital and man-power for resource development. Technical sessions in the remaining half of the programme will give experts concurrent opportunity of exchanging information on minerals, fuels, power, water, soils, crops, livestock, forests, fish and wild-life, and though primarily devoted to the discussion of methods for the development of natural resources, will reflect the importance in such developments of techniques relating to standards of health and living. Particular attention will be devoted to the special problems of the under-developed countries.

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United Nations Conference on the Conservation and Utilization of Resources.Nature 161, 617 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161617a0

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