ABSTRACT
Divided though they often are in the internal organization of a scheme, staff and settlers tend to combine in relation to their outside environment. They have a common interest in the survival and prosperity of their scheme, in securing services for it and in obtaining high returns for its produce. These of course depend partly upon the economic efficiency of the internal organization; but they also depend upon a scheme’s external relations with other organizations, both in its local environment and more distantly with its parent agency. In order to examine these aspects of settlement schemes, it will be helpful first to consider the extent to which they acquire separate identities and can be examined ecologically, as organizations which adapt to and survive within an environment populated by other organizations.
