Resources Policy

This article examines the securitization of the Marange diamond industry in Zimbabwe, arguing that it represents a deliberate political strategy to engineer an “architecture of opacity” for regime survival and elite enrichment. By integrating securitization theory with concepts of the shadow state, we analyze how the ZANU-PF government resolved a legitimacy crisis by violently enclosing a nationa…

In this paper, we analyze the complex relationship between gold production, terrorism and economic performance in fıve resource-rich countries—Colombia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Indonesia, Mali, and the Philippines—over the period 1975-2023. Using the Bootstrapping Auto Regressive Distributed Lag Bounds (BARDL) test augmented with Fourier approximation (FBARDL) and a Granger causality fr…

The Innu workforce of Québec's Côte-Nord region, located in a territory not covered by a modern treaty, represents a young and growing population, many of whom seek employment in the mining and metallurgical industry. However, despite the signing of Impact and Benefit Agreements (IBAs) intended to promote Indigenous employment, Innu representation within mining companies remains limited. This stu…

Natural resource extraction often takes place in locations where communities are not financially well-off and where historically marginalized groups reside. This paper contributes to the policy debate by revealing how corporate social licence tactics enable a model of corporate-community manipulation which is similar across different geographical contexts. Original data gathered between 2016 and …

Mineral exploration is the lifeblood of the global mining industry. Exploration companies locate rich mineral deposits to kickstart the mining process. Given the pivotal role of these companies in the mining value chain, their actions can have implications on the trajectory of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in the mining industry. While several assessments of CSR at the production stage of…

Critical mineral producers face growing pressure to design royalty regimes that can capture rents during price upswings without unduly increasing project stress during downturns. Existing mineral-fiscal instruments address this problem only partially: ad valorem royalties provide administrative simplicity and early revenue, but are weakly responsive to cost conditions, while profit-based and reso…

To meet the growing global demand for minerals required to develop low-carbon energy technologies, new mining areas may expand into important tropical ecosystems. Through spatial analysis, we assessed the extent of potential impact from future mining expansion on biodiverse areas and territories of traditional peoples in the Brazilian Amazon. We analysed both direct and indirect effects from pote…

• Wind power governance becomes contested because of temporal misalignments. • Resource legacies are mobilised in the interpretation of wind power experiences. • Local administrations in resource communities construct a legacy of energy peripheralisation and strive to escape it. • Resource legacies can be both positive and negative and shape governance strategies. • Wind power is interpreted eith…