I Resources, Development and Producer Power.- The Global Ecosystem.- Oil Prices, OPEC and the Poor Oil Consuming Countries.- The Role of Less Developed Countries in World Resource Use.- Problems of Mineral Supply.- Resources, Producer Power and International Relations.- Conclusions.- II Transition.- The Economic Declaration of the Algiers Summit Meeting.- The Sixth Special Session of the UN General Assembly, April 1974.- First, Second, Third and Fourth Worlds.- Declaration on the Establishment of a New International Economic Order.- Conference of OPEC Member States, Algiers, March 1975.- Speech to the Conference by President Houari Boumedienne.- The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, Kingston, Jamaica, May 1975.- Speech by Prime Minister Harold Wilson of the United Kingdom.- Memorandum on World Economic Interdependence and Trade in Commodities.- Speech by Prime Minister Forbes Burnham of Guyana.- The UNCTAD Commodities Plan.- Postscript: The Seventh Special Session of the UN General Assembly.- Appendix: Notes on Contributors.