Resources Policy

1974 - 2026

Current editor(s): R. G. Eggert

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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

Volume 115, issue C, 2026

Tax system analysis for deep-sea mining in Norway: A genetic algorithm approach

Verena Hagspiel, Maxime Lesage, Farida Mustafina, Benjamin Rike, Sander Skonhoft and Jonatan Smith

Improving productivity in mine loading and hauling operations through OEE analysis

Mahmoud Basharaf, Ahmad Reza Sayadi and Mohammad Javad Rahimdel

Temporalities of mining and displacement/resettlement in Mozambique's coal frontier

Hiroyuki Tsuji, Kei Otsuki, Griet Steel and Joshua Kirshner

Who owns the minerals in polluted mine water? Property rights and institutional barriers to rare earth elements recovery from acid mine drainage

Hélène F. Nguemgaing and Alan R. Collins

Examining how women in artisanal tin mining cope with mining shocks

Sulista Sulista and Darol Arkum

Time-varying connectedness and portfolio implications between industrial metals and global REIT markets

John Kingsley Woode, Michael Provide Fumey, Felix Takyi, Emmanuel Assifuah-Nunoo, Peterson Owusu Junior and Anokye M. Adam

Slowing down to speed up or get off: The role of resource legacies in narratives of wind energy in local transition governance

Simon Haikola and Johanna Dahlin

Mining energy transition minerals threatens conservation and traditional peoples of the Brazilian Amazon

Beatriz C.A. Carneiro, Andrew K. Ringsmuth and Juliana Siqueira-Gay

Critical revenues: How might mining for critical minerals contribute to local government budgets in the US?

Andrew Beach and Daniel Raimi

Corrigendum to “A roadmap for sustainable global supply chain distribution: Exploring the interplay of ECON-ESG factors, technological advancement and SDGs on natural resources” [Resources Policy 95 (2024) 105114]

Cem Işık, Serdar Ongan, Hasibul Islam and Angeliki N. Menegaki

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 Brahim Bergougui

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