Resources Policy

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Volume 34, issue 4, 2009

Assessing the long-term supply risks for mineral raw materials--a combined evaluation of past and future trends pp. 161-175

Dirk Rosenau-Tornow, Peter Buchholz, Axel Riemann and Markus Wagner

Seven thousand years in the service of humanity--the history of copper, the red metal pp. 176-184

Marian Radetzki

Using the cumulative availability curve to assess the threat of mineral depletion: The case of lithium pp. 185-194

Andrés Yaksic and John Tilton

Mercury: The good, the bad, and the export ban pp. 195-204

Edward Balistreri and Christopher Worley

Petroleum royalties and regional development in Brazil: The economic growth of recipient towns pp. 205-213

Fernando Antonio Postali

Corruption in natural resource management: Implications for policy makers pp. 214-226

Ivar Kolstad and Tina Søreide

Financial assurance and mine closure: Stakeholder expectations and effects on operating decisions pp. 227-233

Philip Peck and Knud Sinding

Volume 34, issue 3, 2009

Duration and characteristics of metal price cycles pp. 87-102

Mark C. Roberts

Comment: Unravelling the causes of the mineral price boom pp. 103-104

David Humphreys

Adding public value: The limits of corporate responsibility pp. 105-111

Phillip Crowson

Backward linkage development in the South African PGM industry: A case study pp. 112-120

Marian Lydall

Impact of crude oil price volatility on economic activities: An empirical investigation in the Thai economy pp. 121-132

Shuddhasattwa Rafiq, Ruhul Salim and Harry Bloch

Assessing corporate-community involvement strategies in the Nigerian oil industry: An empirical analysis pp. 133-141

Uwafiokun Idemudia

Challenges to liberalism: The case of Australian energy policy pp. 142-149

James L. Hay

Small-scale mining in China: Assessing recent advances in the policy and regulatory framework pp. 150-157

Lei Shen, Tao Dai and Aaron James Gunson

A Handbook of Primary Commodities in the Global Economy, Marian Radetzki. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK (2008) (cloth 233 pages+x index, ISBN: 978-0-521-88020-6) pp. 158-159

Graham Davis

Volume 34, issue 1-2, 2009

Small-scale mining, poverty and economic development in sub-Saharan Africa: An overview pp. 1-5

Gavin Hilson

Perspectives on migration patterns in Ghana's mining industry pp. 6-11

Frank K. Nyame, J. Andrew Grant and Natalia Yakovleva

Moralities, risk and rules in West African artisanal gold mining communities: A case study of Northern Benin pp. 12-17

Tilo Grtz

Working in a boom-town: Female perspectives on gold-mining in Burkina Faso pp. 18-23

Katja Werthmann

Recognizing and nurturing artisanal mining as a viable livelihood pp. 24-31

Petra Tschakert

"The ladder that sends us to wealth": Artisanal mining and poverty reduction in Tanzania pp. 32-38

Eleanor Fisher, Rosemarie Mwaipopo, Wilson Mutagwaba, David Nyange and Gil Yaron

Resource policies and small-scale gold mining in Zimbabwe pp. 39-44

Samuel J. Spiegel

Artisanal mining in central Mozambique: Policy and environmental issues of concern pp. 45-50

S. Dondeyne, E. Ndunguru, P. Rafael and J. Bannerman

Artisanal and small-scale mining as an extralegal economy: De Soto and the redefinition of "formalization" pp. 51-56

Shefa Siegel and Marcello M. Veiga

'Soon there will be no-one left to take the corpses to the morgue': Accumulation and abjection in Ghana's mining communities pp. 57-63

Ray Bush

Sustainable solution or a marriage of inconvenience? The coexistence of large-scale mining and artisanal and small-scale mining on the Abosso Goldfields concession in Western Ghana pp. 64-70

Anthony Aubynn

Diamonds, governance and 'local' development in post-conflict Sierra Leone: Lessons for artisanal and small-scale mining in sub-Saharan Africa? pp. 71-79

Roy Maconachie

Livelihoods and production cycles in the Malagasy artisanal ruby-sapphire trade: A critical examination pp. 80-86

Laurent E. Cartier

Volume 33, issue 4, 2008

Using exploration expenditures to assess the climate for mineral investment pp. 179-187

J. Joaquin Jara, Gustavo Lagos and John Tilton

Broadening the statistical search for metal price super cycles to steel and related metals pp. 188-195

Daniel Jerrett and John Cuddington

The supply behaviour of state mining enterprises: A case study of the Jordanian phosphate industry pp. 196-202

Alrawashdeh O. Rami

Reforming small-scale mining in sub-Saharan Africa: Political and ideological challenges to a Fair Trade gold initiative pp. 203-209

John Childs

On technical change in the elasticities of resource inputs pp. 210-221

Jakub Growiec and Ingmar Schumacher

Incorporating environmental issues into optimum cut-off grades modeling at porphyry copper deposits pp. 222-229

M. Osanloo, F. Rashidinejad and B. Rezai

Financial and economic factors affecting the lignite prices in Turkey: An analysis of Soma and Can lignites pp. 230-239

Mithat Uner, Nezir Kose, Soner Gokten and Pinar Okan

Escaping the Resource Curse, edited by Macartan Humphreys, Jeffrey D. Sachs, and Joseph E. Stiglitz, New York, Columbia University Press. pp. xviii + 408, index, Cloth, $29.95, ISBN: 9780231141963 pp. 240-242

Graham Davis

Natural Resources: Neither Curse nor Destiny, Daniel Lederman, William F. Maloney (Eds.). The World Bank, Washington, DC and Stanford University Press, Palo Alto, CA (2007). xx + 369pp., index, Paper, $29.95, ISBN-10: 0804757097, ISBN-13: 9780804757096; Cloth, $75.00, ISBN-10: 0804757089, ISBN-13: 9780804757089 pp. 243-245

Graham Davis

Volume 33, issue 3, 2008

The boom in mineral markets: How long might it last? pp. 125-128

Marian Radetzki, Roderick Eggert, Gustavo Lagos, Marcos Lima and John Tilton

Horizontal mergers in the iron ore industry--An application of PCAIDS pp. 129-141

Robert Lundmark and Linda Wårell

Social dimensions of mining: Research, policy and practice challenges for the minerals industry in Australia pp. 142-149

Fiona Solomon, Evie Katz and Roy Lovel

Statistical considerations of progressive value and risk in mineral exploration pp. 150-159

Pietro Guj

Geologic vs. geographic constraints on cement resources pp. 160-167

Alissa Kendall, Stephen E. Kesler and Gregory A. Keoleian

Natural resource abundance in Nigeria: From dependence to development pp. 168-174

Eric Ogunleye

World Investment Report: Transnational Corporations, Extractive Industries and Development, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Geneva, (2007). 323 pp., $90 (developed countries), $42 (developing countries). ISBN: 978-92-1-112718-8 pp. 175-177

David Humphreys

Volume 33, issue 2, 2008

Commodity currencies and currency commodities pp. 55-73

Kenneth Clements and Renee Fry-McKibbin

Economies of scale in global iron-making pp. 74-82

Paul Crompton and Jean-Baptiste Lesourd

Commodity booms and their impacts on the Western Australian economy: The iron ore case pp. 83-101

Qiang Ye

Exchange-rate economics for the resources sector pp. 102-117

Kenneth Clements, Yihui Lan and John Roberts

The price of gold and the exchange rates: Once again pp. 118-124

Larry A. Sjaastad

Volume 33, issue 1, 2008

Trends in mineral economics: Editorial retrospective, 1989-2006 pp. 1-3

Roderick Eggert

Mineral economics: Overview of a discipline pp. 4-11

Richard L. Gordon and John Tilton

The sustainability of China's major mining cities pp. 12-22

Jing Yu, Zhongjun Zhang and Yifan Zhou

Private capital: What impedes its entry into China's minerals industry pp. 23-28

Suxun and Chenjunnan

Challenges with eradicating illegal mining in Ghana: A perspective from the grassroots pp. 29-38

Sadia Mohammed Banchirigah

Mining and social development: Refocusing community investment using multi-criteria decision analysis pp. 39-47

A.M. Esteves

An analogy between secondary and primary metals production pp. 48-49

John Cuddington

The Economics and Politics of Oil in the Caspian Basin: The Redistribution of Oil Revenues in Azerbaijan and Central Asia. Boris Najman, Richard Pomfret, Gaël Raballand (Eds.). Routledge, New York (2008). 213pp+index, $180, ISBN13: 978-0-415-43410-2, ISBN10: 0-415-43410-6 pp. 50-53

Peter Howie