世界의 資源開發 展望에 關한 硏究 = Prospect of World-Wide Development of Resources

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Due to the expansion and growth of the World Economy and increase of popul-ation, we are witnessing a sharp rise in the demand of natral resources. On the other hand the supply of resource is constantly running out, and recently the nations possessing natural resources, including OPEC, have been placing restrictions on the supply of their resources. Thus, the situation of the world-wide resources supply has become a serious problem. The issues on the demand side of this situation are :
(1) The growth rate of the demand for resources is rising in proportion to the worldwide economic growth.
(2) The developing nations are gradually taking up more percentage in the demand for natural resources.
(3) As people are more concerned about the environmental pollution, the pre-ference for non-pollution material is more in demand.
On the supply side, the problems are as follows :
(1) The system of resources supply has become rigid due to the limitation, uneven location, long term requirement for developing, instability and the dominance of resources by the big international capital establishments.
(2) Nations seem to move to strengthen their power of supply through efforts for independent development with an input of national capital for a stable security of resources.
Recently, however, nations, especially the developing nations, abounding in natural resources appear to taken out resources nationalism, strengthening their influence on the resources markets. Besides, the decrease in the overwhelming U.S. power in the international politics and economy has brought about changes in the balance of international power, which in turn will affect the situation of natural resources.
Under such situation, the issues over the natural resources have come to be factors of instability not only of the simple supply and demand system, but also of politics, economy and general-over-all social affairs. Efforts are required for basic corrections of such elements with enough flexibility to deal with rapidly changing resources situations. Also urgently needed is a study for a long-range measure for material development.
Finally, unlike the manufacturing industry, the plan for resources development has no choice for location; thus the plan should be preceded by the establishment of such basic structures as road and sea-port. Therefore, the revulsion of the capital takes a longer term, and the extent of instability and the risk involved is far greater than that of the manufacturing industry.
Such problems concerning resources development not only obscure the prospect of short and long term supply system, but also serve as a factor for the emerbence of mammoth enterprises through the highly advanced technology, huge amount of capital and the high degree of risk involved in the development. The control by the huge international capital creates an uncertainty of the prospect of supply owing to the difficulty of development; it is also likely to form an artificial supply & demand system in the international capital markets.
This study attempts to investigate the situation of natural resources in connec-tion with the rapidly changing economic condition.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• 序論
• 第1章 世界資源의 背景과 展望
• 第2章 戰後資源開發利用의 特徵
• 第3章 將來人類의 資源必要量
• 第4奪 自然에 對한 飛躍的인 增大
• 第5章 將來의 資源開發과 體制의 問題
• 結論