RESOURCES POLICY (ISSN: 0301-4207)

Description

Resources Policy is an international journal devoted to minerals policy and economics, aimed at economists and decision makers in academia, government, and industry. Submissions are invited that analyze issues of public policy, economics, and business in the areas of mining, minerals, metals, and materials.

Topics include, among others, resource availability, exploration and development, production, consumption, markets and price formation, international trade, environmental policy and management, taxation, investment, and finance.

Submissions also are invited on related natural-resource topics of interest and importance to the minerals community, such as sustainability, natural resources in national-income accounting, and other topics from environmental and energy economics.

Regular features include: communications; book reviews; comprehensive listings of recent articles and publications; conference reports; conference calendar.

Professor Philip Maxwell from the Mineral Economics program at Curtin University of Technology in Western Australia has recently become Editor of Resources Policy. Philip is co-ordinator of the Master¿s program in Mineral Economics offered within the Western Australian School of Mines.

He takes over the position as Editor from Professor Rod Eggert of the Colorado School of Mines, who has made a major contribution to the success of the journal over the past fifteen years.

Resources Policy is an international journal devoted to mineral policy and economics. It is aimed at economists and decision makers in academia, government, and industry.

Traditional topics covered in the broad discipline of mineral economics include mineral market analysis, project evaluation, and monopoly and antitrust issues. This has spread more recently into areas such as mining and sustainable development, the resource curse, mineral wealth and corruption, the nature of mineral rents, mineral taxation and regulation, the rise of China and India major mineral consumers, and the impact of mineral development on local communities and indigenous populations.

The Editor particularly invites submissions that analyse issues of public policy, economics, and business in the areas of mining, minerals, metals, and materials.