New Deal Planning


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First Published in 2011. The purposes of this book are to analyze and describe the National Resources Planning Board (NRPB) and its direct predecessor agencies in the setting of their times, and to draw any lessons their experience offers us today. Resources for the Future (RFF) has a long tradition of conducting studies of government agencies that administer natural resource programs and policies. This book is in the RFF tradition of institutional studies with exhaustive coverage of an agency no longer in existence to anticipate emerging problems and provide a comprehensive viewpoint of its successes and failures. The audience for this book are all persons interested in government, natural resources, economic and social studies, and in planning generally.




A History of Federal Water Resources Programs, 1800-1960


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This publication discusses most of the significant federal water resources legislation up to 1960 and describes the programs of U.S. planning and construction agencies; the extent of federal river basin planning and development up to 1960; and the beginning of federal encouragement of and cooperation with State and local planning.







National Resources Board


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Hearings


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Bibliography on Land Utilization, 1918-36


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This bibliography has been compiled as a companion volume to the Bibliography on Land Settlement issued in 1934 by the United States Department of Agriculture as Miscellaneous Publication 172. It contains selected references to the literature on the economic aspects of land utilization and land policy in the United States and in foreign countries, published for the most part during the period 1918-36.




The United States Government Manual


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Natural Resources Code


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