Resources Policy

1974 - 2025

Current editor(s): R. G. Eggert

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Volume 106, issue C, 2025

Free, Prior, and Informed Consent and Human rights impact assessments: Lessons from Repsol's operations in Wayuu territories in La Guajira, Colombia

Laurence Klein, María Jesús Muñoz-Torres and María Ángeles Fernández Izquierdo

On solid ground: Assessing the scale-up potential of structural stone in the UK

Charlotte Taylor, Hannah Gold, David Watson, Anthony Darby, Richard Ball, Tim Ibell and Will Hawkins

Does governance matter in mediating the resource curse? Evidence from Zambia

Chali Nondo, Talknice Saungweme and Nicholas M. Odhiambo

No Minerals, No Megawatts: How material costs and availability shape the future of the US power sector

Maxwell Brown, Eliza Hotchkiss, Gabriel Collins, Mirali Seyedrezaei and Morgan Bazilian

The role of natural resource wealth and national-level economic forces in energy poverty intensity in African economies

Samson Adeniyi Aladejare

Between a rock and a hard place: Livelihood diversification through artisanal mining in the Eastern DR Congo

Malte Ladewig, Aida Cuni-Sanchez, Arild Angelsen, Gerard Imani, Ghislain K.R. Baderha, Franklin Bulonvu and John Kalume

Unpacking the interconnected challenges of rare metals supply chains: A systematic literature network analysis and conceptual framework

Justine Marty and Salomée Ruel

Framework for assessing intranational risk of critical mineral sectors: Case study of India

Keita F. DeCarlo

Adding precious metals to a risk avert Investor's portfolio – Is gold alone?

Dhriti Chattopadhyay, Bidipta Saha, Dikshita Saha, Madhurima Saha and Gagari Chakrabarti

Anticipating the unforeseeable? ESG risk management in mining companies

Olivier Boiral, Marie-Christine Brotherton and David Talbot

A genetic algorithm for temporal and spatial alignment of long- and medium-term mine production scheduling for open-pit mines

Pathy Muke, Tinashe Tholana, Cuthbert Musingwini and Montaz Ali

Optimizing cut-off grades under stochastic price: A model for open-pit lateritic nickel mining with multiple products

Benazir Imam Arif Muttaqin, Udisubakti Ciptomulyono and Nurhadi Siswanto

Navigating geopolitical risks: The impact of the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands dispute on global rare earth markets and diversification strategies

Youngho Kang, Yurim Lee and Hayoung Oh

Appropriate technologies or appropriating technologies? Technopolitics within artisanal and small-scale mining in Ghana

Alesia Dedaa Ofori, Augustine Chiga Awolorinke and Gad Amoako Amankwaah

Volume 105, issue C, 2025

Foreign direct investments and energy transition critical minerals

Tanguy Bonnet

The effect of economic sanctions on world trade of mineral commodities. A gravity model approach from 2009 to 2020

Raul Caruso and Maria Cipollina

The role of renewables in smoothing the impact of oil and gas price shocks on inflation: The LAC experience

Magdalena Cornejo, Michelle Hallack and David Matias

Licensing to operate: Understanding variations in regulatory outcomes in the Australian mining sector

Lisa Nicole Mills, Jennifer M. Stewart and Graeme Auld

Venezuela's economic merry-go-round in the 21st century: a study through the prism of the political management of the oil rent

Juan Barredo and Daniel Feliciano

The curse or blessing of natural resources: impact on entrepreneurship and gender dynamics in Sub-Saharan Africa

Charles Bertin Pilag Kakeu, John William Seugue Nietcho, Christelle Moko Fodop and Metchouani Jasmine Patience

Garimpo and public policies in Brazil: Proposal for a responsible activity

Alex dos Santos Macedo, Dione Macedo, Hassan Sohn and Luís Mauro Gomes Ferreira

ESG mapping of the Australian mining sector – The state of play on mobilising spatial datasets for decision making

Eléonore Lèbre, Karol Czarnota, Stuart D.C. Walsh, Marcus Haynes, Natasha Ufer, Laura J. Sonter, Rachakonda Sreekar, Pascal Bolz, Nevenka Bulovic, Claire Côte, Nadja C. Kunz, Steven Micklethwaite, Stephen A. Northey, Louisa M. Rochford, Richard Schodde, Benjamin Seligmann and Kathryn Sturman

On the dynamic interdependence between risk factors and clean energy stock prices

Walid M.A. Ahmed and Mohamed A.E. Sleem

The centrality of energy transition: New global shifts and old realities for sub-Saharan Africa

Simon Manda, Sambo Lyson Zulu and Toyin Ebenezer Adeyemi

Evolutionary dynamics in common oil resource management for enhancing long-term strategic interactions

Seyed Pendar Toufighi, Iman Ghasemian Sahebi and Zahra Soltani

The synergistic role of natural resources, green finance and green technological innovations in promoting environmental sustainability in Sub-Saharan Africa

Theodorah Jarijari, Abraham Deka and Behiye Cavusoglu

How to maximize the chilean government's revenue with the National Lithium Strategy?

Francisco Olivares, Gustavo Lagos and Marcos Singer

Deep sea mining, developing legal regime, bonus bidding and the sharing of economic rents

Paul Hallwood

Integrated mine closure planning adherence Index: a new approach for evaluating mine closure plans

Cecília Santiago Santos, Mariangela Garcia Praça Leite and Hernani Mota de Lima

Quantifying conflict risks in raw material supply using the INFORM risk index

Anish Koyamparambath, Guido Sonnemann and Steven B. Young

Criteria-driven socio-environmental maturity modelling for mining: driving positive sustainability attitudes and perceptions at diverse operational scales

Keiran Doyle, Kathryn Moore and Patrick Foster

The defence sector faces the resource curse: Effect of natural resource rents on defence spending in Sub-Saharan Africa

Arsène Aurelien Njamen Kengdo and Victor Kitio

Transforming Ghana's ASM industry: The intersection of ‘mining schemes’ and stakeholder collaboration

George Ofosu and Francis Arthur-Holmes

Natural resource rents and non-resource tax revenue mobilization in selected developing countries

Kadagde Dalam Debonheur

A stakeholder perspective on the drivers and barriers influencing the emergence of deep-sea mining

Manuel Bellanger, Pierre Scemama, Denis Bailly, Shani Friedman, Ugo Massé, Joëlle Richard and Olivier Thébaud

Volume 104, issue C, 2025

Evaluating public-private partnerships in mining: An evolutionary game theory approach to strategic dynamics and regulatory impacts

Amir Fazli Allah Abadi and Majid Ataee-pour

Physical injuries among illegal miners in Ghana: Implications for attaining the sustainable development goals

Samuel Boadi, Paul Osei-Tutu, Emmanuel Acquah and Mary Tenkorang

Investigating the determinants of load capacity factor in Nigeria: An asymmetric quantile approach on urbanization, economic growth, FDI, and resource dependency

Seyi Akadiri, Oktay Ozkan and Andrew Adewale Alola

Rehabilitation costs paid by mining enterprises in Turkey: Comparison of rehabilitation costs with their shares in mining operation costs and other environmental costs

Taşkın Deniz Yıldız

Exploration of socio-environmental solutions in the mining industry in comparison to other industries: A data-driven unveiling perceptions

Shahryar Sorooshian

Volume 103, issue C, 2025

Mining-induced displacement and livelihood restoration: A data-driven approach

Ingrid Ahmer and Bertram Ostendorf

From black gold to green goals: The uneven path of just transition in Poland

Aleksandra Kozłowska-Woszczycka, Katarzyna Pactwa and Martyna Konieczna-Fuławka

Unveiling the nexus: Impact of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) on foreign direct investment (FDI)

Ablay Dosmaganbetov and Simeon Nanovsky

Bridging the EPC and IPAT in the presence of natural resources in China: Considering asymmetries in environmental-related technologies and unemployment

Zia Ur Rahman, Shakil Ahmad and Abbas Khan

Economic vulnerability and resilience analyses for China's iron and steel industry: Insights from COVID-19

Haoran Duan, Shiwei Yu, Haopeng Geng and Jinhua Cheng

Evaluating battery minerals future supply through production predicting in the context of the green energy transition

Anahita Jannesar Niri, Gregory A. Poelzer, Maria Pettersson and Jan Rosenkranz

Quantile time-frequency connectedness and spillovers among financial stress, cryptocurrencies and commodities

Naveed Khan, Olaoluwa Yaya, Xuan Vinh Vo and Hassan Zada

Hoping to mine: The nascent critical materials industry in the United States

Kelly Lynn Anderson, Shannon Halinski, Khoi Hua, John A. Rupp and John D. Graham

The effectiveness of OPEC and OPEC+ from 2009 to 2024: An empirical appraisal

Gil Montant

Is all that now glitters sufficient? An investigation of a gold resource cap in Australia

Adam Kelly

The sustainability challenge and social benefits of industrialisation in NICs

Irsa Azam, Yongsheng Guo and Mirza Muhammad Naseer

Bolstering critical minerals trade between India and other MSP countries: A gravity model evaluation

Iqra Yaseen, Surendar Singh and Suvajit Banerjee

Green and traditional productivity growth with natural capital: The role of resource depletion, environmental damages and sectoral composition

Dagmawe Tenaw

Comment on Smart mining policy: Integrating fuzzy-VIKOR technique and the Z-number concept to implement industry 4.0 strategies in mining engineering (by Poormirzaee et al.)

Parul Tomar and Amit Kumar

Open-pit phase design considering operational constraints: Towards the generation of high adherence production planning policies

Pierre Nancel-Penard, Enrique Jelvez, Diego Mancilla and Gerson Morales

Green finance and privatization of green projects in the fossil fuels industry

Yang Miao, Yule Tian, Jian Cao and Xinqi Yu

Simulating resource movements and markets: A continuous dynamical system with delays to model anthropogenic metal cycles

Nicola Gambaro, Pablo Brito-Parada, Simon Glöser-Chahoud and Yves Plancherel

Adaptive simultaneous stochastic optimization of mining complexes: Where is the value coming from?

Roussos Dimitrakopoulos and Maria Fernanda Del Castillo

The predictive power of the oil variance risk premium

David G. McMillan and Salem Adel Ziadat

Reclaiming homeland - An evaluation of traditional land use planning in oils sands mine closure and reclamation plans

Christine A. Daly, Ryan Grandjambe, L’Hommecourt, Jean, Gillian Donald, Bori Arrobo, S. Craig Gerlach, Dan McCarthy and Don AhnAhnsisi McIntyre

Price contagion and risk spillover in the global commodities market: COVID-19 pandemic vs. global financial crisis

Md Mostafa Kamal, Eduardo Roca, Bin Li, Chen Lin and Rajibur Reza

The effects of global uncertainty and risks on metal prices: Evidence from frequency and time domain causality tests

İdris Demir, Halil İbrahim Aydın, Gökhan Erkal and Ömer Yalçınkaya

Waste as a resource in the green transition: Legal preconditions for secondary extraction

Maria Pettersson and Oskar Johansson

Exploring shock transmission and risk diversification in REIT, commodity, and green bond markets under extreme market conditions

Abdullah AlGhazali, Houssem Eddine Belghouthi, Mohamed Amine Nabli, Walid Mensi and Sang Hoon Kang

Globality in the metal markets: Leveraging cross-learning to forecast aluminum and copper prices

Konstantinos Oikonomou, Dimitris Damigos and Dimitrios Dimitriou

Assessing the dual impact of gold mining on local communities: Socio-economic benefits and environmental challenges

Muhammad Haroon and Muhammad Hayyat

Quarrying CSR index: Social, economic and environmental factors in the analysis of the quarrying industry

Marc Bascompta, Lluís Sanmiquel, Nor Sidki-Rius, Enrique Bonet and Maria Teresa Yubero

Reducing density uncertainty in iron ore deposits: Taking advantage of the density and Fe grades correlation aiming to more accurate models

W. Emilio G. Moreno, Marcel Antônio Bassani, Diego Marques and João Felipe Coimbra Leite Costa

Do disaggregated natural resources foster financial development? Evidence from linear and non-linear approaches

Nitish Kumar and Kumar Shaurav

The role of political stability on crude oil production in Cameroon: Evidence from the ARDL and NARDL models

Jean Marie Stevy Sama, Théodore Patrice Nna Nna, Flavian Emmanuel Sapnken and Jean Gaston Tamba

Greening the mines: Managing efficiency, environmental impact, and ecology in Chinese mining regions

Cosimo Magazzino, Muhammad Haroon and Xian Zeo

Does third-party monitoring reduce environmental violations in mining firms?

Renjie Zhou, Yongheng Luo and Zhengye Gao

Technology adoption in the Canadian mining sector: A systematic scoping review

Mackenzie Crabbe, Joelena Leader, Heather M. Hall and Matthew Burdett

Projection of global copper demand in the context of energy transition

Aline Fernanda Soares, Renata Giovinazzo Spers and Ronaldo de Oliveira Santos Jhunior

Relative trust in critical minerals governance for just transitions in Ghana and Australia

Clement Sefa-Nyarko, Darren Sinclair, Joshua Matanzima, Jane Alver, Evan Hamman, Stephen Bartos and Roland Burke

Corruption, terrorism and illicit financial flows related to extractive commodity trade in Africa

Simplice Asongu and Juste Somé

Critical minerals and structural oil shocks: Evidence from wavelet cross-quantile correlation

Seyi Akadiri and Oktay Ozkan

Refining zoning of artificially-drained mine subsidence areas: Relative elevation models and hydrological hazard frameworks as decision support tools for spatial planning and mitigation of flood-related geohazards and risks regardless of prevailing water regimes

Dariusz Ignacy

Examining the hidden effects of democracy and natural sources on ecological footprint in South Africa: Fourier NARDL approach

Umut Uzar and Kemal Eyuboglu