Resources Policy

1974 - 2026

Current editor(s): R. G. Eggert

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Volume 119, issue C, 2026

Identifying key natural gas drivers towards China's carbon neutrality through a novel temporal shrinkage framework

Jinyong Sung, Xunpeng Shi, Sven Teske and Mengheng Li

New onset cycle of mining and oil exports in Niger: an assessment of related-revenue allocation policy

Alain L. Babatoundé and Kalidou Diallo

Mapping the evolving landscape of the natural resource curse: A global bibliometric assessment

Chiraz Karamti and Abir Grairi

Information flow between rare earth elements-related equities and financial markets: a transfer entropy-based analysis

Benjamin M. Tabak and Lucas Silveira Pordeus

Aspiration versus Capacity: The case of critical raw materials for electromobility in Canada

Marianna Ottoni, Christoph Helbig and Komal Habib

(Rural) Resources and communities: historical pathways of the cement industry in Katana and Kabimba, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo

Divin-Luc Bikubanya

Structural inertia and market friction in global fossil fuel trade: A longitudinal network analysis of resource path dependencies

Andry Alamsyah, Dian Puteri Ramadhani and A. Sasikirana Zahrani

Critical review of Indian mining laws: Revenue-loss loopholes, illegal extraction pathways, and lessons from global best practice frameworks

Arnav Prakash Thakur

Does oil and gas dependence offset the inequality-reducing effects of financial development? A comparative analysis of oil- and gas-dependent and non-dependent economies

Mahboubeh Davoudi, Masoud Nili and Seyed Ali Madanizadeh

Strengthening resilience in clean energy mineral supply Chains: The role of innovations and governance regimes across emerging economies

Waseem Hassan, Deyi Xu, Han Sun, Noor Ellahi, Mojawir Ahmad Sadat, Mehreen Hassan, Zohaib Hassan and Mansoor Ahmed

Circular economy pathways for rare earth magnets: integrating dynamic MFA, environmental externality internalization, and policy simulation

Zegui Sun

Mineral demand from AI data centers: Infrastructure intensity, processing bottlenecks, and supply competition

Macdonald Amoah, Maxwell Brown, Adam Simon, Morgan Bazilian and Jahara Matisek

Rare earth elements leaching from phosphogypsum derived from magmatic and sedimentary phosphate ore

Hajar Bellefqih, Hamid Mazouz, Nils Haneklaus, Sofia Barbosa, João Cruz, Pedro Catalão-Moura, Sofia Pessanha, Diogo Neves and Essaid Bilal

Global evolution and methodologies of critical minerals assessment: A comprehensive multidimensional analysis of impact factors

Anvar Mammadli, George Barakos, Ping Chang and Michael Hitch

Threshold effects in oil–metal volatility spillovers: Evidence from industrial and precious metals

Markos Farag

Energy transition, supply chains, and geopolitical asymmetry: a structural reading of the U.S.-Ukraine mineral deal

Mariusz Baranowski, Piotr Jabkowski and Daniel M. Kammen

Analysis of artisanal and small-scale mining accidents in Tanzania

B.F. Giyani and M.S. Dotto

Framework for logistic and ESG risk integration with feedback loops: A decision-support tool for mineral exploration and development

Aaron Thompson, Christopher J.M. Lawley, Mohammad Parsa and Steven E. Zhang

Reframing the social license to operate under moral asymmetry

Jaques Paes, Fabricio Stocker and Rajiv Maher

Volume 118, issue C, 2026

A holistic methodological framework to support strategic procurement and supplier selection for sustainable supply chains of mineral resources within a changing global landscape

Angela Ciotola, Simone Colombo, Ahmed I.Z. Elmenshawy, Maryegli Fuss and Witold-Roger Poganietz

Climate policy and sustainability uncertainty in energy and transition metal markets: Evidence from a TVP-VAR–based asymmetric connectedness framework

Şerife Akıncı Tok

Rare earth elements demand and energy transition in 2050: Exploring water stress impacts

Fernanda Guedes, Gondia Sokhna Seck, Emmanuel Hache and Candice Roche

Operations research in mining industry: Literature review and research opportunities

Gustavo Campos Menezes, Marcone Jamilson Freitas Souza and Luciano Perdigão Cota

Decision-grade risk and cost mapping for illegal gold mining at Crucitas, Costa Rica: prioritisation, phased remediation portfolios, and uncertainty-aware policy ranking

Andrea Navarro Jiménez

Strategic relevance beyond resource potential: Greenland and Ukraine in EU and US critical mineral diversification

Nils Haneklaus, Michaela Hrabušajová and Matúš Mišík

Strategic review of critical minerals policies in Türkiye: Lessons from the US, China and the EU

Yagmur Aslan and Izzet Ari

Assessing the potential supply risk mitigation due to public policies: Application of the GeoPolRisk method to critical raw materials in the EU

Jair Santillán-Saldivar, Anish Koyamparambath, Guido Sonnemann and Daniel Monfort Climent

Rare earth elements in the age of energy transformation. Fly ash recovery profitability analysis

Aurelia Rybak and Aleksandra Rybak

The effects of commodity shocks on supply- and demand-driven inflation dynamics in Mongolia

Gan-Ochir Doojav, Munkhbayar Purevdorj and Khosbayar Erdenebileg

Green dreams and toxic realities: Exploring the environmental health risks and coping strategies of women in mining settlements in Obuasi, Ghana

Peter Donkor, Ebenezer Kwadwo Siabi, Samuel Kofi Mensah and Kwasi Frimpong

Multisectoral analysis of socio-environmental conflicts related to mining in Peru (2020-2025)

Marco A. Cotrina-Teatino, Jairo J. Marquina-Araujo, Pedro J. Alvarez-Tandaypan and Cristian J. Murga-Peña

Volume 117, issue C, 2026

Exploring the community's adaptive preferences in sustainable post-mining development

Agung Dwi Sutrisno, I Wayan Koko Suryawan and Chun-Hung Lee

Productivity spillovers. Offshore petroleum as Norway's Space Race?

Atle Blomgren

From windfalls to welfare-related income? Long- and short-run effects of oil prices on real GDP per capita in MENA and Azerbaijan

Mayis Gulaliyev, Shafa Aliyev, Aynur Jabbarova, Gunay Aliyeva and Ismayıl Bagırov

Mining expansion and intimate partner violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo: a difference-in-differences analysis of disaggregated violence types

Giacomo Roberto Lupi

Explaining and predicting conditional volatility in lithium markets: Climate policy uncertainty, supply chain stress, and hybrid modeling

Rajwardhan Sawant and Sang Baum Kang

Corporate social responsibility as a catalyst for governance effectiveness and socio-environmental sustainability in resource-dependent contexts

Saba Goli, Iman Islami, Masoud Bijani and Hossein Azadi

From hedging to decarbonizing: The role of extracted and recycled precious metals in sustainable portfolio construction

Nourhène Ghanmi, Azza Béjaoui and Sahar Loukil

Topology of intraday realized volatilities across commodity indices, copper futures, the U.S. dollar index, and the NASDAQ: An unrestricted multivariate HAR-VAR approach

Leonidas Zangelidis and Anthony N. Rezitis

From extraction to equity: Rethinking compensation and procedural justice in Nigeria's emerging lithium economy

Sanjo Kazeem Abolarin, Kesha Fevrier and Warren Mabee

The impact of Dodd-Frank and the Huawei shock on DRC tin exports

Haruka Nagamori and Kazuhiko Nishimura

Iron grip or invisible hand? The channels of government control on the Chinese mining sector

David Landry

Economic benefits of publicly available geological data: A willingness-to-pay and cost-benefit analysis from Switzerland (2007–2024)

Roland Baumberger

Volume 116, issue C, 2026

“We are Makurukuru: Gold helps us to stand firm as a human being, as women”: What can we learn from Uganda about the evolution of artisanal and small-scale mining?

Felicitas Egunyu, John Boakye-Danquah, Betty Kwagala and Calvin Ogwang

Adaptive royalty formulations for critical minerals amid fiscal volatility and geopolitical uncertainty

Glen T. Nwaila, Gobona Lizzie Tau, Yousef Ghorbani, Derek Hugh Rose, Elvis Korku Avenyo, Raymond J. Durrheim and Mpoyi J. Kanda

Economic complexity versus GDP in shaping the environmental Kuznets Curve: A fuzzy-set analysis across resource curse vulnerability index levels

Hamed Mokhtari Torshizi, Narges Saleh Nia and Mohammad Reza Ariafar

‘We are searching for gold’: Exploration companies, corporate social responsibility and the ‘realities’ of mineral exploration in Ghana

Suleman Dauda

Safety culture maturity, personal attributes, and accident experience: A study of the Ghanaian small-scale mining sector

Eric Stemn, Kwadwo Bonsu Junior and Charlotte Abena Benyarku

Divide to conquer. A transnational analysis of extractive industries'performative governance tactics to gain social license

Martina Angela Caretta

Projections of steel sector emissions to 2100: Different metallurgical technology pathways and resource constraints

Steve Mohr, Ben Madden, Craig Garlick, Tom Honeyands, James Hopeward, Geoff Evans, Damien Giurco and Gavin Mudd

Economic and environmental trade-offs in lithium extraction: A comparative analysis of European supply pathways

Yazari Agudelo and Miguel Saldarriaga

Terrorism, gold production, and economic development: Evidence from Colombia, Dem. Rep. Congo, Indonesia, Mali and Philippines

Melike E. Bildirici and Seyit M. Gokmenoglu

Rethinking the resource curse: Effects of social expenditure on income distribution in Sub-Saharan Africa

Éric Dieudonné Obama Obama

Working without a treaty: Indigenous employment dynamics in the Côte-Nord mining sector

Joanie Caron and Danny Baril

Price transmission and market integration in China's EXW-FOB rare earth elements market

Hélène Flore Nguemgaing

Resource potential of mine wastes in Norway: Opportunities and regulatory challenges

Nikita Malafeevskiy

Coexistence strategies between artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) and large-scale mining (LSM) in resource-abundant regions: Insights from a systematic review

Ambrose Derzu, Jonas Ayaribilla Akudugu, Rejoice Selorm Wireko-Gyebi, Michael Addaney and Elizabeth Araba Bannor

From country-level to district-level mining planning analysis: A system dynamics approach with territorial focus

Linda Berrio-Giraldo, Sergio Andrés Ospino Ricardo, Verónica Valencia, Daniela Congote, Yris Olaya, Clara Villegas-Palacio, Carlos Adrian Correa-Florez, Olga Tatiana Araque-Mendoza and Santiago Arango-Aramburo

Nonlinear information spillovers between geopolitical risk, critical rare earth minerals, and defense stocks: A transfer entropy and time-frequency QVAR approach

Kwame Ofori Asomaning, Hamayoon Shah, Frederick Boamah, Emmanuel Uche and Anis Mnif

Business model innovations and sectoral transformation: A bibliometric-systematic literature review of the oil and gas sector

Lien Thi Nguyen and Akihisa Mori

Legacy, memory and pathways: Implications for post-carbon rural futures from Australia, Canada, and New Zealand

Tamara Krawchenko, Neil Argent, Sean Connelly, Greg Halseth, Fiona Haslam-McKenzie, Sean Markey, Laura Murphy, Etienne Nel and Jessica Reeves

The architecture of opacity: Zimbabwe's diamond industry and its lessons for the mineral-driven energy transition

Weston Marume and Brandon Marc Finn

The role of benefit sharing agreements in mine closure: a golden opportunity or a square peg for a round hole?

Liz Wall

Mapping voluntary sustainability standard systems in the mining, minerals, and metals sectors

Chenhui Zhang, Capucine Nouvel Zurcher, Daniel Monfort Climent and Steven B. Young