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Preface; 1. Natural resources and developing countries: an overview; 2.Natural resource-based economic development in history; 3. Does naturalresource dependence hinder economic development?; 4. Frontier expansion andeconomic development; 5. Explaining land use change in developing countries;6. The economics of land conversion; 7. Does water availability constraineconomic development?; 8. Rural poverty and resource degradation; 9. Canfrontier-based development be successful?; 10. Policies for sustainableresource-based development in poor economies.