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{"title":"Variability and classification of illegal gold mining in French Guiana for impact-based territorial planning","authors":"Nina Fermet-Quinet ,&nbsp;Yann Gunzburger ,&nbsp;Rasool Mehdizadeh ,&nbsp;Ottone Scammacca ,&nbsp;Sébastien Linarès","doi":"10.1016/j.resourpol.2025.105485","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.resourpol.2025.105485","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Illegal gold mining (IGM) is responsible for numerous environmental, social, and economic threats throughout the world. This is also the case in French Guiana (FG), where IGM causes impacts such as deforestation and the contamination of the food chain with methylmercury, among others. Since 2002, to address and mitigate these impacts, the French government has started taking actions and now treats IGM as a real matter of public policy and environmental governance. Despite the growing involvement of various public organizations and scientific communities, numerous challenges linked to the complexity of IGM in the middle of the Amazonian rainforest still result in a gap in applied scientific knowledge partially because of the difficulty to access the field. To improve long-term territorial planning in FG and optimize authority's efforts in terms of risk management, it is first necessary to better characterize and distinguish the different types of IGM practices, to determine their respective impacts on the territory, and to set action priorities. In FG, the existence of an observatory specifically devoted to IGM monitoring represents a unique opportunity to quantitively characterize and classify those activities. This paper presents an in-depth statistical analysis of a georeferenced database provided by this observatory, completed by individual interviews and sites visits. The result is a comprehensive classification of IGM practices in FG into five distinct types of illegal mining sites, based on six criteria (e.g., type of gold deposit, mining techniques), along with their detailed characteristics and inherent variabilities. The proposed classification is structured to distinctly differentiate the nature and the extent of the impacts of these five types of sites. Two of them are particularly detailed in this study, outlining their technical characteristics and their associated variability from site to site. The proposed classification and characterization of IGM in FG are essential for the development of realistic prospective territorial scenarios, and for their impact analysis. Although context-specific, the methodology proposed in this study has the potential to be applied to other countries facing similar IGM related issues, given the presence of equivalent databases or the willingness to create one.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20970,"journal":{"name":"Resources Policy","volume":"101 ","pages":"Article 105485"},"PeriodicalIF":10.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143156824","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Beneficial use of dimensional stone industry wastes in geotechnical fills: Geotechnical, environmental and economic perspectives","authors":"Jagdish Lohar,&nbsp;Neha Shrivastava","doi":"10.1016/j.resourpol.2025.105465","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.resourpol.2025.105465","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Efforts to recycle waste from the dimensional stone industry are vital due to its environmental impacts, hindered by limited inclusion rates and complex processing needs in current practices. Given the increasing demand for geotechnical fill materials and the depletion of natural soils, sustainable alternatives are necessary. The beneficial use (BU) of Dimensional Stone Processing Industry Wastes (DSPIWs) in geotechnical fills offers a novel solution, yet lacks a comprehensive evaluation. Following the USEPA approach, this study assesses the suitability of DSPIWs—specifically slurry generated in granite, sandstone, and marble processing—for geotechnical fills, examining their potential, relevant lifecycle stages, compatibility with geotechnical fill requirements, environmental concerns, and cost implications. Geotechnical investigations reveal that DSPIWs are non-plastic and non-swelling, with grain size distribution and hydraulic conductivity akin to silty sands. Maximum Dry Density ranges from 1.58 to 1.84 g/cm³ with minimal water-induced variation, and internal friction angles of 44.8° for granite, 40.2° for sandstone, and 36.5° for marble ensure high stability. Electrochemical analysis shows low leachability risks, with pH levels between 7.5 and 8.1 and electrical resistivity above 6200 Ω-cm. Heavy metal concentration in percolation-based leaching tests remains within allowable limits. A cost analysis of a typical embankment section using DSPIWs as fill material reveals a substantial cost reduction of nearly 52 percent compared to using natural soil. Considering the non-hazardous nature of DSPIWs, their compliance with geotechnical fill requirements, minimal environmental and health risks, and economic benefits, this study endorses their BU in geotechnical fills to cater waste disposal problem and advance resource conservation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20970,"journal":{"name":"Resources Policy","volume":"101 ","pages":"Article 105465"},"PeriodicalIF":10.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143156827","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Environmental regulation, resource dependence, and innovation and entrepreneurship vitality of Chinese cites","authors":"Jianshuang Fan ,&nbsp;Dongtao Liu ,&nbsp;Lin Zhou ,&nbsp;Liang Ding ,&nbsp;Junshen Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.resourpol.2025.105481","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.resourpol.2025.105481","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The effects of environmental regulation (ER) or resource dependence (RD) on innovation and entrepreneurship have received much attention. However, few studies systematically explore the relationship between ER, RD, and innovation and entrepreneurship within the same framework. This paper aspires to fill this gap in the literature. Using data of 274 Chinese prefecture-level cities from 2009 to 2020, we assess the effects of ER and RD on innovation and entrepreneurship vitality (IEV) through ordinary least squares model and panel threshold regression model. The results show that ER imposes a significant positive effect on IEV under relatively weak RD. Furthermore, ER imposes a significant negative effect on IEV under strong RD. The resource curse also exists in the field of urban innovation and entrepreneurship. Our findings have important implications for the government to implement differentiated ER policies and decrease the city's dependence on natural resources to better promote the development of urban innovation and entrepreneurship.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20970,"journal":{"name":"Resources Policy","volume":"101 ","pages":"Article 105481"},"PeriodicalIF":10.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143100197","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Does the resource curse exist? Evidence from oil discovery and production in Ghana","authors":"Benard Akalbeo","doi":"10.1016/j.resourpol.2025.105459","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.resourpol.2025.105459","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Over the years, countries across the world have made significant discoveries of various forms of natural resources. The most important, valuable, and problematic of all these discovered resources is arguably oil. This paper investigates the impact that the oil discovery in Ghana in 2007 and its subsequent production has had on the economic growth as well as the unemployment rate of the country. Using the synthetic control method for comparative case studies approach, we exploit the quasi-experimental nature of the discovery which was due to an exogenous shock.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20970,"journal":{"name":"Resources Policy","volume":"101 ","pages":"Article 105459"},"PeriodicalIF":10.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143156896","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Macroeconomics, geopolitical risk, and resource commodity price bubbles","authors":"Beibei Li ,&nbsp;Yiming Chen ,&nbsp;Haipeng Wu ,&nbsp;Xuefeng Mao","doi":"10.1016/j.resourpol.2025.105478","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.resourpol.2025.105478","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The pivotal role of resource commodities in economic development has heightened attention to price volatility and the resultant price bubble phenomenon. The Generalized Supremum Augmented Dickey-Fuller (GSADF) method is employed to identify explosive episodes in four resource commodities—crude oil, copper, soybeans, and cotton. Furthermore, a rare-event logit model is used to examine the factors influencing these boom-bust episodes. The empirical results reveal multiple price bubbles across the four resource commodity markets from January 1980 to July 2022. The risk of market bubbles is highest in copper, followed by crude oil, cotton, and soybeans. Results for the driving forces of bubbles show that the exuberance and collapse of bubble behavior can be attributed to microeconomic factors and geopolitics. Specifically, global economic expansion and dollar depreciation significantly increase the likelihood of price bubbles. Geopolitical risk exerts a significant influence on price bubbles, which are more likely to be propagated through specific geopolitical acts (GPA) than through geopolitical threats (GPT). Our findings shed new light on the nature and formation of bubbles in the resource commodity markets, providing valuable guidance for policymakers and investors in making informed decisions regarding price management and investment strategies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20970,"journal":{"name":"Resources Policy","volume":"101 ","pages":"Article 105478"},"PeriodicalIF":10.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143156829","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Do coal price shocks affect the risk-taking of listed companies in China?","authors":"Boqiang Lin,&nbsp;Yijie Song","doi":"10.1016/j.resourpol.2024.105458","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.resourpol.2024.105458","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Macroeconomic factors such as coal prices affect corporate decision making. With a set of 39,795 observations of firm-year data, encompassing 30 provinces and spanning the years 2005–2022, this paper estimates the impact of coal price shocks to corporate risk-taking of listed companies in China. The empirical results show that coal prices change negatively affect corporate risk-taking due to internal risk aversion. Further analysis shows that this effect is asymmetric between positive and negative shocks, and is more significant among higher coal dependence provinces. External factors such as economic policy uncertainty further reduce risk-taking. This study provides both macro and micro perspective analysis of corporate risk-taking and coal prices influences, contributing to the policy references for corporate strategic choices and coal price adjustments in the process of energy transition of China.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20970,"journal":{"name":"Resources Policy","volume":"101 ","pages":"Article 105458"},"PeriodicalIF":10.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143100654","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Is fossil fuel intensity adversely affecting health improvement and sustainability?","authors":"Xuewen Yang","doi":"10.1016/j.resourpol.2024.105388","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.resourpol.2024.105388","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study investigates the intricate relationship between fossil fuel intensity and sustainable development goals in 24 countries from 2000 to 2020, including 12 high-income and 12 low- and lower-middle-income nations. The findings indicate that higher fossil fuel intensity in high-income countries is linked to reduced death rates and better health outcomes, attributed to advanced technologies and strong healthcare systems. In contrast, low- and lower-middle-income countries experience increased death rates and challenges to sustainability due to poor pollution control and healthcare infrastructure. Additionally, unemployment negatively affects health and sustainability across all countries, while ICT development and income equality have positive impacts. The study suggests that high-income countries should continue investing in clean energy and healthcare, while low- and lower-middle-income nations require support to lessen fossil fuel dependence and enhance healthcare infrastructure.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20970,"journal":{"name":"Resources Policy","volume":"101 ","pages":"Article 105388"},"PeriodicalIF":10.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143100658","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Finding explanations for weak economic complexity in resource-rich African countries: Exploring the role of natural resource endowment and institutional quality","authors":"Clement Olalekan Olaniyi,&nbsp;Nicholas Mbaya Odhiambo","doi":"10.1016/j.resourpol.2024.105455","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.resourpol.2024.105455","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Unlike earlier studies, this study explores the role of institutional quality in modifying the impact of natural resource wealth on economic complexity in resource-rich African countries. It also investigates the thresholds of institutional quality in the relationship between natural resource wealth and economic complexity from 1995 to 2021. This study employs fully modified least squares, robust standard error Driscoll-Kraay regression, dynamic common correlated effects, the method of moments quantile regression, and the dynamic panel threshold approach to achieve these objectives. The findings from all estimators indicate that both natural resource wealth and institutional quality independently contribute to improving the economic complexity of resource-rich African countries. However, the interaction between natural resource wealth and institutional quality impedes economic complexity. This finding suggests that institutional quality creates inadequacies that promote negative behaviour, such as racketeering, political interference, corruption, and opportunism, in natural resource wealth management. This phenomenon hampers and undermines the efficient allocation of resource incomes to economic complexity in resource-rich African countries. The study identifies an institutional quality threshold of 5.59 on a scale of 10, above which natural resource wealth strongly stimulates economic complexity. However, most resource-rich African countries fall below this threshold. Therefore, the study concludes that institutions weaken the positive effects of natural resource wealth on economic complexity in resource-rich African countries.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20970,"journal":{"name":"Resources Policy","volume":"101 ","pages":"Article 105455"},"PeriodicalIF":10.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143100660","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Towards sustainable resource management: A national assessment of historical mining waste in Poland","authors":"Sławomir Mazurek ,&nbsp;Katarzyna Derkowska ,&nbsp;Anna Januszewska ,&nbsp;Cezary Sroga","doi":"10.1016/j.resourpol.2025.105482","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.resourpol.2025.105482","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this study, we present findings from a comprehensive program in Poland aimed at identifying historical mining heaps, sedimentation ponds, and industrial waste dumps. This program is part of a broader initiative that evaluates past and present waste streams to determine their potential as secondary sources of metals, with a special emphasis on critical resources, aligning with Poland's Raw Materials Policy. This article primarily outlines the methodology used to create an inventory, analyze the identified sites, and draw conclusions regarding their suitability for future utilization. We highlight the importance of investigating historical waste heaps and processing related objects in the context of transitioning to a circular economy while also considering environmental constraints. We emphasize the critical aspects of the inventory process that provide essential information and stress the significance of a comprehensive historical waste inventory initiative. Additionally, we suggest a framework for evaluation that can be adapted for use in other regions, aiming to enhance recognition of domestic and regional resources. The aim is to present the methodological process of a wide-range historical mining heaps inventory program as well as its objectives and achievements - for other countries or surveys planned in the future.</div><div>Historical mining and processing activities in Poland have left numerous facilities containing waste mineral raw materials of varying types and sizes. The Polish Geological Institute – National Research Institute documented approx. 1400 of these objects, recording various parameters related to their dimensions, locations, and waste characteristics. The results are available in an open geodatabase named 'HAŁDY' (meaning ‘HEAPS’). Using the collected data, GIS software, and the multi-criteria analysis we conducted a thorough analytical assessment to identify objects with the highest potential as secondary sources of critical elements and potential for further re-use in other applications. The research revealed that waste heaps from hard coal mining, iron ore extraction, and polymetallic ore extraction are the most abundant in terms of quantity and that objects of significant size in Upper Silesia present the highest potential for detailed valorization. We also conducted detailed, site-specific analysis for 10 objects from different parts of the country, recommending accumulated waste for various possible services.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20970,"journal":{"name":"Resources Policy","volume":"102 ","pages":"Article 105482"},"PeriodicalIF":10.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143177476","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Conditions for sustainable platinum mining: Insights from artisanal and small-scale mining in Colombia","authors":"Juan Sebastián Lara-Rodríguez ,&nbsp;Morgane M.C. Fritz","doi":"10.1016/j.resourpol.2025.105487","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.resourpol.2025.105487","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article examines the necessary conditions for sustainable artisanal and small-scale Platinum mining (ASPM) in Colombia as a critical raw material (CRM). Hypothesising the environmental, social, economic and institutional dimensions based upon the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) frame, we employ generalised and ordinary least squares to analyse variables within each dimension that impact on ASPM. Through legal instruments, namely, Right to Petition and Constitutional Right Enforcement, we gathered comprehensive data from mining authorities regarding extraction, formalisation and miner registration across 1122 municipalities throughout the 2010s. Our findings reveal multifaceted associations across dimensions: in environment, whilst illegal gold mining shows a positive causal effect on ASPM, coca cultivation displays varying impacts. In the social dimension, higher multidimensional poverty has a significant positive effect on platinum extraction, while violence exhibits a negative causal bond. In the economic dimension, both infrastructure improvements and rural technological progress have significant negative effects on ASPM activity. In the institutional pillar, higher corruption levels show a positive causal link with extraction, whilst armed illegal groups display divergent effects - FARC-EP rebels relate negatively to production, while paramilitary presence connects positively. These findings underscore that sustainable ASPM requires coordinated interventions: strengthening environmental enforcement, addressing poverty whilst improving security, developing infrastructure and rural technification for formalisation, and implementing anticorruption measures alongside peacebuilding efforts. Indeed, we posit some multi-stakeholder actions towards these ends. This case could enhance both local development and global CRMs supply diversification originating from artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM).</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20970,"journal":{"name":"Resources Policy","volume":"102 ","pages":"Article 105487"},"PeriodicalIF":10.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143177921","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}