Resources Policy

1974 - 2026

Current editor(s): R. G. Eggert

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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

Volume 111, issue C, 2025

Assessing critical mineral occurrence in battery technologies

Elsa Camuamba, Bruno Damásio and Sandro Mendonça

Scheduling by Pushbacks: A historical review of optimization approaches for strategic open pit mine planning

P. Abalos, A. Brickey and M. Goycoolea

Subaltern environmentalism and small-scale mining reforms in Ghana: the new government's five-point strategy and a model for mining site reclamation

Albert Kobina Mensah and Francis Xavier Dery Tuokuu

Towards a circular economy: Secondary raw materials price prediction based on their listings on global stock quotes

Mohamed Alwaeli and Konrad Kaczmarek

Legal effectiveness of business contracts in tin mining: Socio-legal and governance challenges in corporate–community relations in Indonesia

Derita Prapti Rahayu, Muhammad Rustamaji, Faisal Faisal and Rafiqa Sari

Navigating environmental vulnerability and resource dependence: Toward equitable and sustainable growth pathways in resource-rich economies

Md. Nahiduzzaman, Sanjoy Kumar Sarker, Bapon Chandra Kuri, Bablu Kumar Dhar, Partha Pratim Roy and Rejaul Karim

The critical minerals dilemma: Rethinking energy transition strategies in Africa

Nurcan Kilinc-Ata and Liliana Proskuryakova

Sales vs. profit-based royalties: Evidence from lithium in LAC countries

Gerardo Reyes-Tagle and Claudio Karl

Chinese mining investment globally: Who, where, and how?

David Landry

Paradox of oil revenue allocation and utilisation in resource-rich countries: The case of Nigeria

Sunday Eneojo Samuel and Reza Kouhy

Does US energy policy uncertainty drive FDI to Africa?

Yinka S. Hammed, Moses O. Ogunniran and Solomon T. Ademosu

Transparency of reporting on tailings storage facilities by the six largest members of the International Council on Mining and Metals

Cornelie Crous and Lochner Marais

Community responses in a contested mining landscape: Perceptions and power in Belitung, Indonesia

Dilruba Erkan, Henny Warsilah and Sri Yudawati Cahyarini

To mine or not to mine, that is the question: Assessing public preferences for deep-sea mining using a choice experiment in Norway

Thomas M. van Rensburg, Mohammad Asif Khan and Noreen Brennan

Financing Africa's transition minerals: Chinese capital, control structures, and developmental constraints

Michael Mbate

Towards global cooperation in securing critical minerals: Game theory analyses of policy discourses from the United States, the European Union, South Africa and Australia

Desire Runganga, Bishal Bharadwaj, Helen Cabalu and Peta Ashworth

The benefits of enhanced circularity on strategic autonomy: Titanium metal in the EU

Alejandro Buesa, Pablo Piñero, Luis Pedauga, José Manuel Rueda-Cantuche and Brian Baldassarre

Fiscal stabilization in resource-rich developing economies amid a resource revenues downturn: A new-Keynesian analysis

Cece Cherif Delamou

Who benefits from informal artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) in Ghana? Evidence from the Amansie West District

Albert Adehokey, Lawrence Kwabena Brobbey, Dorcas Peggy Somuah and Joana Akua Serwaah Ameyaw