Contents: Introduction -- The Economics and politics of natural resources: The Raw material product cycle -- Mineral trade and investment patterns in the pacific area -- Resource trade and the development process in developing countries -- Ocean mining in the Pacific Basin: Stimuli and response -- National case studies in natural resource problems: Australia's minrals productions and trade: Case study of a resource-rich developed country -- Options for a resource-poor developed country- Japan -- Issues in the development of resource-rich LDCs: Copper in Chile -- Natural resource problems in a resource- poor developing country: The Korean case -- Political economy of mineral resource: Policy alternatives: Comodity trade from a North- South perspective -- Japan's resource security and foreign investment in the Pacific: A Case study of bilateral devices between advanced countries -- The Wider context of bilateral resource exploitation arrangements between the LDC's and the DCs -- International comodity control: The Tin experience -- An organization for pacific trade, Aid and development: Regional arrangements and the resource trade -- Statistical Appendix.