Resources Policy

1974 - 2025

Current editor(s): R. G. Eggert

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Volume 101, issue C, 2025

Achieving development goals via digital government strategies for a sustainable digital economy that integrate natural resource governance and energy security

Minqiang Zhang, Jia Hou and Yishu Liu

Harnessing digitalization to enhance private finance in resource-rich industries

Yuyan Lei

Is fossil fuel intensity adversely affecting health improvement and sustainability?

Xuewen Yang

Oil extraction, private investment, and sustainable economic development in China

Ting Su, Hui Zhang and Rhee Kyonggu

Revising the ‘Economic importance’ dimension: The European framework for critical raw materials, completed and illustrated using lithium

Georges Daw

Finding explanations for weak economic complexity in resource-rich African countries: Exploring the role of natural resource endowment and institutional quality

Clement Olalekan Olaniyi and Nicholas Odhiambo

Do coal price shocks affect the risk-taking of listed companies in China?

Boqiang Lin and Yijie Song

Does the resource curse exist? Evidence from oil discovery and production in Ghana

Benard Akalbeo

The transient sand frontier: Senegal's moving sand procurement strategies

Jean-François Rousseau

"Like an abandoned son": Clientelism, assistentialism, and state failure in Amazon oil benefit sharing policies

Danilo Borja and Conny Davidsen

Capitalizing on technological innovations and natural resources rent in alleviating ecological footprint in the Sub-Saharan African countries

Abraham Deka, Chioma Christiana Efe-Onakpojeruo and Huseyin Ozdeser

Is America dematerializing? Trends and tradeoffs in historic demand for one hundred commodities in the United States

Iddo K. Wernick

Is there a subnational resource curse? Evidence from households in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria

Jubril Animashaun and Lotanna E. Emediegwu

Beneficial use of dimensional stone industry wastes in geotechnical fills: Geotechnical, environmental and economic perspectives

Jagdish Lohar and Neha Shrivastava

The nexus between the dependence on natural resources and environmental sustainability: Does institutional matter?

Noran Abd El Nasser, Dalia M. Ibrahiem and Rasha Sameh

Prioritising the location of gold refining facility in Nigeria: An application of advanced multi-criteria decision making methods based on Fermatean fuzzy sets

Abiodun Ismail Lawal and Francois Mulenga

With coal forever? Conflicted attitudes of residents in coal mining areas in the Czech Republic, Germany and Poland to coal phase-out

Bohumil Frantál, Justyna M. Chodkowska-Miszczuk, Filip Alexandrescu, Franziska Stölzel, Petr Klusáček, Ondřej Konečný, Diana Süsser, Agata Lewandowska and Dominik Zieliński

Critical minerals: A new source of macroeconomic fluctuation?

Luccas Assis Attílio

Macroeconomics, geopolitical risk, and resource commodity price bubbles

Beibei Li, Yiming Chen, Haipeng Wu and Xuefeng Mao

Geostatistical and geochemical assessment of illegal artisanal mining impacts in Southern Hamisana, Sudan

Kholoud M. Abdel Maksoud, Mouataz T. Mostafa, Sabri M. Sabri and Wael M. Al-Metwaly

Environmental regulation, resource dependence, and innovation and entrepreneurship vitality of Chinese cites

Jianshuang Fan, Dongtao Liu, Lin Zhou, Liang Ding and Junshen Zhang

Lessons of eco-transition of a rural small town: The case of Manzhuang China from raw material processing industries to a circular economy

Li Yu, Ning Jia and Mo Li

Variability and classification of illegal gold mining in French Guiana for impact-based territorial planning

Nina Fermet-Quinet, Yann Gunzburger, Rasool Mehdizadeh, Ottone Scammacca and Sébastien Linarès

Gold mining and social accountability: An empirical approach in Colombia

Adrián Saldarriaga-Isaza, Fernando Flórez-Herrera and Marcela Ibáñez-Diaz

Rare earth elements and the US renewable economy: A causality exploration between critical materials and clean energy

Panagiotis Cheilas, Tryfonas Christou, Sotiris Karkalakos, Constantina Kottaridi and Panayotis Michaelides

Volume 100, issue C, 2025

Transition in the mining industry with green energy: Economic dynamics in mining demand

Omkar Hirlekar, Ashutosh Kolte and Laszlo Vasa

Optimizing crowdfunding for mineral resources of Dutch economy: The role of fintech in achieving sustainable development goals through artificial intelligence

Usman Ahmad, Ameenullah Aman, Azam Anwer Khan and Syed Emad Azhar Ali

Analyzing the interplay between money supply, mineral extraction, industrialization, and ecological footprint in latin America's global south: A symmetrical perspective

Waqas Amin, Shouhong Xie and Abdul Rauf

Retraction notice to “Exploring the Nexus between Fintech, natural resources, urbanization, and environment sustainability in China: A QARDL study” [Resour. Pol. (89), February 2024 104557]

Kai Liu, Haitham A. Mahmoud, Liqun Liu, Khaled Halteh, Gioia Arnone, Nizomjon Khajimuratov Shukurullaevich and Haitham M. Alzoubi

Unveiling Sustainable Mineral Resources Extraction, foreign direct Investment, Technology Advancement nexus: Evidence from BRICS countries

Ghulam Muhammad Qamri, Sheng Bin, Li Sanchuan and Guo Hui

Australian coal mining and economic diversification in the energy transition context

Fitsum Semere Weldegiorgis

The Political Economy of local content policy: The Brazilian Oil Industry in the 21st century

Beni Trojbicz and Mariane Santos Françoso

The security evaluation of nickel industrial and supply chains based on the NDEA window model

Han Sun, Ziyi Yuan, Xiaoxue Wang, Lu Chen and Zhiyun Zha

Developing green tehcnology and digital economy to cope with resource scarcity

Jianhua Zhang, Fengxue Yin, Weihua Zhang, Lizhi Wang and Xiaoyan Zhou

An overview of lithium mining in Brazil: From artisanal extraction to large-scale production

Caroline Belisário Zorzal, José Margarida da Silva, Daniel Silva Jaques and Rita de Cássia Pedrosa Santos

Determinants of formalised mineral market outlet choice decision of artisanal and small-scale gold miners in Geita, Tanzania

Makungu Paschal and Jignesh Kauangal

How to manage a multifactor-driven crude oil market more effectively? A revisit based on the multiple criteria perspective

Yue Yu, Jianzhou Wang, He Jiang and Haiyan Lu

Using metals to hedge carbon emission allowances – Tail-risk and Omega ratio analysis

Dejan Živkov, Boris Kuzman and Miloš Japundžić

Differential impact of natural resource revenues on global public debt: A quantile regression approach

Yomara Ruiz, Nikolay Aguirre, Pablo Ponce and José Álvarez-García

The dynamic nexus between economic policy uncertainty, geopolitical risk, and natural resource rents of ASEAN-5 countries: Insights from the novel Fourier augmented ARDL method (FAARDL)

Khalid M. Kisswani and Mahelet Fikru

Digitization of the mining industry: Pathways to sustainability through enabling technologies

Chinmayee Chatterjee, Rahul Sindhwani, Sachin Kumar Mangla and Nitasha Hasteer

Enhancing sustainable growth in the global south: The role of mineral resource management, supply chain efficiency, technology advancement, and local downstream processing

Zhongwen Chen, Usama Awan, Abdelmohsen A. Nassani, Khalid M. Al-Aiban and Khalid Zaman

Natural resources demand, energy transition, and global mineral market: An assessment of BRICS mineral policy

Muhammad Farhan Bashir, Mara Madaleno, Arshian Sharif and Madiha Bashir

Post-restructuring productivity of the Polish hard coal mining industry. Does it create an opportunity for survival or a threat of closure?

Izabela Jonek-Kowalska and Wieslaw Grebski

Revealing the role of institutional quality and geopolitical risk in natural resources curse hypothesis

Changwoo Chung and Taeyoung Jin

Volume 99, issue C, 2024

AI, FinTech and clean minerals: A wavelet analysis and quantile value-at-risk investigation

Sitara Karim, Afzol Husain, Weng Marc Lim, Ling-Foon Chan and Shehnaz Tehseen

Impact of natural resource rents on global trade dynamics in RCEP: Economic and geopolitical interdependencies

Zhang Shuo, Xi Laiwang and Gao Junjun

Institutions as a determinant of FDI and the role of natural resources

Jonathan Bothner

Retraction notice to “How does green finance derive the resource efficiency and decarbonization of the economy?” [Resour. Pol. 85 (2023) 103934]

Xiang Yan, Chao Yang and Renfang Zhang

A predictive model for the security and stability of the lithium-ion battery industry chain based on price modal combinations

Li Jian-fei, Peng Han and Luo Xiao-yu

Mineral policy dynamics and their impact on equity market volatility in the global south: A multi-country analysis

Haithem Awijen, Sami Ben Jabeur and Houssein Ballouk

An evolutionary game analysis of new urbanization in mineral resource abundant regions in China

Lijun Zeng, Wenjing Du, Jinfeng Wang, Weichen Hong and Jinsuo Zhang

Uncovering the features of rhodium metabolism in China during 2011–2022

Jinze Li, Yong Geng, Sijie Liu, Chen Zhong and Wang Gu

Breaking mineral resource curse through digital economy: Resource-based regions' sustainable path in the age of digitalization

Yanwei Lyu, Wenqiang Wang, You Wu and Jinning Zhang

Analysis of critical raw materials policy for electrical and electronic equipment: Planning for a truly circular economy

N.A. Vafeas, P. Slezak and M.W. Hitzman

Evolutionary characteristics and structural dependence determinants of global lithium trade network: An industry chain perspective

Yonglin Li, Zhili Zuo, Jinhua Cheng and Deyi Xu

Private climate investment, coal transition and digitalization in the major coal-consuming countries

Ling Liu

The role of blockchain technology in facilitating finance for metal and mining resources

Ting Cai, Xinchun Shi, Zhaoyan Shang, Xinxin Zhu and Jingjing Qi

When energy dispels curse: Linking natural resources, energy and inclusive growth in Africa

Fabrice Ewolo Bitoto, Augustin Borice Ngounou, Thierry Pondie Messie, Emmanuel Wayisovia Juakaly and Clément Nicodème Mefire Njikam

Uncertainty and entrepreneurship in oil-rich developing countries: Does institution matter?

Mahboubeh Jafari

Mapping cerium flows in China: A dynamic material flow analysis

Xueping Tan, Yiran Zhong, Ziyi Wang, Yong Geng, Shijiang Xiao, Yuquan Zhang and Junxiang Huang

Sustaining the mining industry through the lens of corporate social responsibility: A review research

Sanchita Bansal, Shifali Singh, Priya Nangia, Nisha Chanaliya and Dariusz Sala

Evidence of the relationship between education expenditure by state and private sectors on solving resource curse in OPEC member countries

Yu Li and Wei Wei

Asymmetric relationship between crude oil price and remittance inflows in a small island economy: Evidence from non-linear ARDL approach

Kirtiranjan Das, Manoranjan Sahoo and Sarbeswar Mohanty

Considering the development levels of countries, contributions of mineral recovery from mining tailings and urban mining wastes to sustainability criteria – A review

Taşkın Deniz Yıldız

Reinvestigating the impact of natural resource rents on carbon emissions: Novel insights from geopolitical risks and economic complexity

Qiang Wang, Fuyu Zhang, Rongrong Li and Siqi Zhang

Efficient natural resources management through financial and innovative technologies in developing nations from the lens of economic development

Chuanzhi Huo, Weijie Leng and Yuy Xiang

Does Fintech influence green utilization efficiency of mineral resources? Evidence from China's regional data

Xiaodong Yang and Asif Razzaq

Impact of oil and gold prices on Bitcoin price during Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Gaza wars

Shabnam Zeinedini, Mohammad Sharif Karimi, Azad Khanzadi and Ali Falahati

Digitalization of the financial market and green coal trade

Ping Wang, Chengcheng Huang, Gang Zhou, Wenjun Wu and Xinmeng Wu

Private enterprises solution for fossil fuels transition: Role of ESG and carbon reporting

Mo Bai, Weixuan Wang and Zhigang Li

Causality, Connectedness, and Volatility pass-through among Energy-Metal-Stock-Carbon Markets: New Evidence from the EU

Parisa Pakrooh and Matteo Manera

Predicting China's thermal coal price: Does multivariate decomposition-integrated forecasting model with window rolling work?

Qihui Shao, Yongqiang Du, Wenxuan Xue, Zhiyuan Yang, Zhenxin Jia, Xianzhu Shao, Xue Xu, Hongbo Duan and Zhipeng Zhu

Fintech adoption and sustainable deployment of natural resources: Evidence from mineral management in Brazil

Asif Raihan, Filiz Guneysu Atasoy, Mehmet Burhanettin Coskun, Tipon Tanchangya, Junaid Rahman, Mohammad Ridwan, Tapan Sarker, Ahmed Elkassabgi, Murat Atasoy and Huseyin Yer

Natural resource abundance, digitalization and institutional governance: The critical challenges towards net-zero transformation

Muhammad Farhan Bashir, Madiha Bashir and Luqman Shahzad

Green finance, private investments and fossil fuels rents

Xiaoyu Zhang and Yanling Xi

Resource extraction, FinTech, and social equal access: A quantitative analysis of resource-rich countries

Ghulam Ghouse and Mubasher Iqbal

Mapping the anthropogenic zinc cycle in China from 2000 to 2021: A dynamic material flow analysis

Lu Tong, Yong Geng, Yueru Mei, Ziyan Gao and Sijie Liu

Optimum level of Republic of Korea copper stockpile using disruption risk model

Kangho Kim and Jinsoo Kim

Oil rents, renewable energy and the role of financial development: Evidence from OPEC+ members

Marco Baudino

Addressing resource curse: How mineral resources influence industrial structure dynamics of the BRI 57 oil-exporting countries

Tufail Muhammad, Guohua Ni, Zhenling Chen, Sabrine Mallek, Marek Dudek and Grzegorz Mentel

From exploration to production: Understanding the development dynamics of lithium mining projects

Laura Buarque Andrade, Max Frenzel, Britta Bookhagen, Carolin Kresse, Michael Schmidt, Nedal Nassar, Elisa Alonso, Ensieh Shojaeddini and Dirk Sandmann

Can digital government reduce the resource dependency? Evidence from method of moments quantile technique

Mehmet Akif Destek, Mohammad Razib Hossain, Müge Manga and Gamze Destek

Economic risks in mining investments: A prospective analysis of capital cost estimation in copper mining projects

Luis Suárez Nieto, Gregorio Fidalgo Valverde, Alicja Krzemień, Pedro Riesgo Fernández and Francisco Javier Iglesias Rodríguez