Resources Policy

1974 - 2026

Current editor(s): R. G. Eggert

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Volume 114, issue C, 2026

The impact of natural resource dependence on firm productivity in non-resource sectors

Sandrine Kablan

The ‘past’ in the present (and futures) of a colliery basti: Case study of a resettled coal community in Eastern India

Pooja Narnoli and Deepak K. Mishra

Digging deeper: Evaluating post-mining recovery policies in Ghana and Australia through the lens of sustainable livelihoods

Arnold Dela Azumah, Annah E. Piggott-McKellar and Karen Vella

Mapping the difficulties in implementing resource efficiency measures of European Companies

Sofia Gomes, João M. Lopes and Elisabete Nogueira

Revisiting the resource curse in Zambia: Institutional mediation and the long-run effects of resource rents

Chali Nondo and Harun Ozturker

The impact of digital transformation on corporate carbon information disclosure: evidence from China's resource-based listed companies

Xiao Tan, Nanxin Li, Xiaoxuan Wu, Antong Li, Daxing Xu and Zhongkui Han

Mining contracts and investment law: Governance, disputes, and sustainability in Iran

Satar Mahdevari

Economic sustainability in the critical materials-supply chains-renewable energy nexus for a low carbon future

Homayoun Fathollahzadeh, Gavin M. Mudd and Simon M. Jowitt

A two-sector model of resource depletion in Peruvian mining districts: Bayesian Model Averaging calibration and 3D phase diagram analysis

Favio Leiva

Sustainable growth of aluminum sector in India: An economic analysis of energy intensity, investment, tariffs and competitiveness

Anchal Arora

Quantifying operational uncertainties in mining machinery fleet productivity using a stochastic Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) analysis

A. Jandaghi Jafari, S.H. Hoseinie, R. Bagherpour, M. Mofidi and B. Ghodrati

Volume 113, issue C, 2026

Balancing livelihoods and land rights: Assessing the sustainability of small-scale quarrying in peri-urban Tanzania

F.E. Mtovano and C. Lucian

Strategic competition in lithium mining and refining: A multi-stage game theoretic model

Maxwell Brown and Mirali Seyedrezaei

Comparative assessment of CO2 emissions from mining haulage truck alternatives to achieve 2030 climate targets

Haiming Bao, Peter Knights, Mehmet Kizil and Micah Nehring

A structured approach to assessing market concentration and competition in the aggregate sector: Insights from Israel

Avri Eitan and Shira Bukchin-Peles

Supporting the return of mining? The role of collective memory and perceived impacts in post-extractive communities

Francisco Carballo-Cruz and Luís Filipe Silva

Bibliometric and systematic analysis of literature on royalties in non-renewable resources

Juan Ignacio Guzmán, Patricio Faúndez and Mariel Carrión

Aggregate and disaggregate natural resources impacts on environmental sustainability: An Asymmetric NARDL analysis

Said Meziane and Bergougui Brahim

Mining legacy and uncertain futures: A comparative analysis of two Mexican resource communities

Ulises Pavel Martínez Romero and John P. Hayes

Converting cocoa farms into gold mines – negotiations, compensation and outcomes for farmers in Ghana

Josephine Montford, Regina Birner, Christine Bosch and Boateng Kyereh

Nostalgic bonds, affective strategies, and sustainable actions: Ethnographic insights from Legacy Mining Communities in Arizona

Felix Ampadu

Macroeconomic fluctuations in Sub-Saharan Africa: Role of external shocks

Shakirudeen Taiwo, Josine Uwillingiye and Kwame Osei-Assibey

Formalization from above, resistance from below: Voices of struggle and survival in Ghana's contested artisanal and small-scale mining sector

Seiba Issifu and Max D. Woodworth

Coal hauling on public roads in East Kalimantan: Regulatory failures, overlapping authorities, and conflicts

Mohamad Nasir, Muhamad Muhdar and Laurens Bakker

From rents to rights: How resource dependence shapes democratic trajectories

Roland Brandtjen

Limits to base metals recycling: A meta-analysis of the literature from 2013 to 2023

François Guy and Florian Fizaine

Dynamic and causal effects of oil price uncertainty on U.S. energy production: A Fourier and wavelet-based analysis

Ahmet Tayfur Akcan, Hasan Kazak, Semanur Soyyigit and Cuneyt Kilic

Nature-positive rare earth governance: Japan's strategy in a China-dominated system

Qinxue Wang

Timber-Support Risk Mitigation Framework (TRF) in underground mining: A mechanistic, cost-benefit and risk assessment approach for artisanal and small-scale mining of critical minerals

Carol Mgiba and Oladoyin Kolawole

Uncovering the whys behind the prevalence of galamsey despite regulatory efforts; A principal-agent model analysis

Mercedes Asamani

Is the resource curse persistent? Dynamic causality evidence from resource-dependent economies

Mikail Pehli̇van

Volume 112, issue C, 2026

Diamond artisanal mining and trafficking in the South Kasaï region of the Congo during the decolonization period (1957–1964)

Véronique Pouillard and Kristin Ranestad

Analysis of the production cost structure and future prospects of Africa's critical minerals

Mulundumina Shimaponda-Nawa and Glen T. Nwaila

Navigating trade policies and sustainability: a system dynamics analysis of Indonesia’s nickel supply chain

Meditya Wasesa, Taufiq Hidayat, Dinda Thalia Andariesta, Alma Kenanga Attazahri, Bima Satritama, Haidar Aji Wasesa, Zulfiadi Zulhan, Mohammad Zaki Mubarok and Utomo Sarjono Putro

The EV transition: The impact of the EU battery directive on critical material supply, recycling and battery costs

Malene Fumany, Viet Nguyen-Tien, Nanxi Li, Robert J.R. Elliott and Laura Lander

Lithium extraction from mining and mineral processing wastes

Lucie Bartoňová, Helena Raclavská and Barbora Švédová

A low-cost, high-efficiency method for the extraction and purification of rhenium as ammonium perrhenate from molybdenite roasting dust

Saeid Narimany, Mahboubeh Rabbani and Shahriar Ghamami

Changes in international copper ore trading relationships due to the impact of COVID-19 pandemic: Based on social network analysis

Woolrim Lee, Maria Valeria Aguinaga Fonseca, Yusa Qursillananda, Munyphakdey Koet and Seokhui Lee

Peaceful development: Natural resources, global agendas and conflict in Africa

Fabrice Ewolo Bitoto, Nelson Derrick Nguepi, Cerapis Nchinda Mbognou and Ruth Dzokou Petnga

Dimensions of everyday resistance in rural artisanal mining communities in South Africa

Nonkululeko Melody Zondo

Effects of the Fundão Dam break on the performance of socioeconomic indicators in Mariana municipality, Minas Gerais State

Thiago Vinícius Alves Monteiro, Valente José Matlaba, Gabriel Costa Maciel Moia and Jorge Filipe dos Santos

Mining Is Dead. Long Live Geopolitical Mining: Why critical minerals and strategic power will define the next global order, 2025

Hugo Morão

Asymmetric volatility spillover between clean energy and nonferrous metal markets under climate risks: Portfolio hedging implications

Qingying Zheng, Jintao Wu and Boqiang Lin

Examination of the impacts of systemic financial stress on precious metal prices

Oguzhan Ozcelebi, Jose A. Pérez-Montiel and Carles Manera

Scandium extraction from Malaysian industrial waste: Challenges and opportunities for a sustainable energy future

Eli Syafiqah Aziman, Aznan Fazli Ismail, Mohd Syukri Yahya and Batari Toja Iskandar

Financing circularity strategies in critical raw materials supply chains: Toward a novel blended framework

Kaiyu Xie, Marcos R. Machado, Laura Spierdijk and Devrim Murat Yazan

Energy, uncertainty and geopolitics: A SHAP-based tail analysis of spot and futures uranium markets

Ivan De Crescenzo, Lyubov Doroshenko, Loretta Mastroeni and Alessandro Mazzoccoli

Are some minerals more governable? Copper mining materialities and formalization of artisanal and small-scale mining in Peru

Luis Meléndez and Sandra McKay

Environmental governance and resource policy in Iran's oil and gas sector: A game-theoretic approach

Mohammad Hossein Jahangiri and Yadollah Bahramian

Social change and social conflict in Zambian Copperbelt mine communities

Lisa Kwaleyela and Miles Larmer

From path dependency to path renewal? The reinvention of local economies in rural resource communities in Newfoundland and Labrador through partnerships

Joshua Barrett

Mapping policy options for addressing community livelihood needs in Tanzania's natural gas sector

Esther Dennis Muchunguzi, Pius Zehbe Yanda, Ian Bryceson and Victoria Hippolite Moshy

Climate policy uncertainty and the co-movement between clean energy and metal markets: A spillover perspective

Zhiwei Bi, Qiaosheng Wu and Lulu Luo

Investigating commodity price interdependence with Granger causality networks

Roberto Esposti

Managing resource rents, trade openness, and energy transitions: Evidence on ecological load capacity from newly industrialized economies

Md Mustaqim Roshid, Reday Chandra Bhowmik, Bablu Kumar Dhar, Sohidul Islam, Shaharier Arafat Sumon and Andreia de Bem Machado

The long-run price versus the price in the long term for mineral and energy commodities

Juan Ignacio Guzmán

Sustainable regional development in a resource-rich region: The case for social innovation

Femi Abiodun Olaniyan and Olubunmi Ipinnaiye

Multilevel governance under urgency: Developing battery industry in the EU

Juha M. Kotilainen, Rauno Sairinen, Hanna Lehtimäki and Nuppu Mielonen