Books in the RFF Global Environment and Development Set series

"Population and Development: The Search for Selective Interventions".

Reviews sociological, economic, and demographic literature pertaining to the relationship between income and fertility in developed and developing countries. This book presents a conceptual framework to examine how fertility responds to changes in the distribution of household income.

Discusses the problems of developing quality information on the availability of natural resources.

"Development of Tropical Lands: Policy Issues in Latin America".

"Rural Women at Work: Strategies for Development in South Asia".

Deals with sources of conflict between private foreign investors and the governments of developing countries. This title concludes that government ownership and control can expand and that foreign investors are most likely to become sellers of their special services rather than remain investors who act freely for the benefit of parent companies.

"Seventh Continent: Antarctica in a Resource Age".