Resources Policy

1974 - 2025

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Volume 107, issue C, 2025

Lithium production in the United States: Socio-technical review of sites, environmental impacts, and social acceptance

Alannah C. Brett, Elizabeth A. Holley, Raphael Deberdt, Lukas Fahle and Nicole M. Smith

Hidden mining capitalism, mineral transportation chain, and gendering livelihoods in Africa's artisanal and small-scale mining: Evidence from northern Ghana

Francis Arthur-Holmes and Jennifer Dokbila Mengba

Do Rare Earth Elements (REEs) hedge financial risk? A spillover and portfolio analysis in the context of the energy market

Marco Tedeschi

Assessing the impact of Global Value Chains (GVC) on the development of local linkages in the mining sector

Silvana Huanqui

Mobilizing FDI in natural resources in the post-COP28 era: Spatial drivers, natural capital, and sustainability dynamics

Haithem Awijen, Younes Ben Zaied and Sami Ben Jabeur

The emerging phyllite mining industry in Ghana: economic potential and policy implications

Kenneth Joseph Bansah, Lilian Owusu, Paul Junior Acquah, Abigail Boafo, Emmanuel Abrokwah and Samuel Yamoah Nyamekye

U.S. industry practices and attitudes towards reprocessing mine tailings for metal recovery

Elizabeth A. Holley, Lukas Fahle, Aaron Malone, Nina Zaronikola, Priscilla P. Nelson and D. Erik Spiller

Mine closure transparency and disclosure: An open-source evaluation of financial, technical, and social reporting

Luanna Di Guimarães, Uajara Pessoa Araújo and Hernani Mota de Lima

Bibliometric and systematic analysis of the literature on the Hartwick rule in non-renewable resources

Marco A. Cotrina-Teatino, Jairo J. Marquina-Araujo, Jose N. Mamani-Quispe, Solio M. Arango-Retamozo and Joe A. Gonzalez-Vasquez

Impact of news and social media sentiments on rare earth investments

Anupam Dutta, Jukka Sihvonen, Donghyun Park, Brian Lucey and Gazi Salah Uddin

Good intentions, negative Outcomes: Environmental consciousness and ambidexterity toward environmental performance in the resource-intensive mining industry

William Limousin, Laurent Scaringella and Morgane Scaringella

Social license to operate: an institutional critique and research framework

Johannes Glückler and Denise Gutiérrez

The impact of domestic material consumption and energy mix on socioeconomic indicators—A global analysis from 1990 to 2022

Zoltán Zéman, Botond Géza Kálmán and László Vasa

Production and supply dynamics (2017–2023) associated with artisanal and small-scale mining of critical raw materials in Africa

Philip Schütte, Sebastian Vetter, Jürgen Vasters and Alain Ciabu Kota

Establishing a critical minerals industry: Review of Canada's administrative and legal efforts at the national and sub-national levels

Raphael Deberdt and Angeline Letourneau

Multi-scenario land use simulation for fast human growth regions: A case study of Zambia's Solwezi mining district

Xavier Takam Tiamgne, Darío Domingo, Felix K. Kalaba, Vincent R. Nyirenda and Cristina Gómez

Advancing digital transformation in the mining industry: A novel rough interval-valued neutrosophic DEMATEL approach to challenge interdependencies

Javad Pakdel, Ismail Erol and Ahmet Oztel

Supply chain competitiveness index: Evaluating U.S. and China's lithium-ion battery industries

Madeline Craig-Scheckman and Scott Moore

The only constant is change: Evidence on the declining role of fossil fuels and the rise of strategic metals in energy transition

Savaş Tarkun

Oil price swings and inflationary echoes: The impact of oil market shocks on consumer and producer prices in Europe and the U.S

Joana Gago and Sofia Vale

Recognizing historic injustice in a coal-rich district: A case study of Singrauli, India

Kopal Dhandhania, Jeemol Unni and Minal Pathak

Security movements in extractive spaces: Dispossession, community-level grievance and resource conflicts in Ghana

Phil Faanu, Nathan Andrews, Augustine Gyan and Sulemana Alhassan Saaka

The effects of high indebtedness on natural resources extraction in Ghana

Michael Kwame Asiedu and Joseph Antwi Baafi

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