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An overview of the coal circularity in Brazil: A new sustainable approach based on sampling method, characterization, and waste valorization

IF 10.2 2区经济学

Resources Policy Pub Date : 2025-02-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.resourpol.2025.105496

M.N.S. Faraco , L. Simão , J. Acordi , E.F. Olivo , A. Zaccaron , O.R.K. Montedo , M.J. Ribeiro , C.P. Bergmann , F. Raupp-Pereira

{"title":"An overview of the coal circularity in Brazil: A new sustainable approach based on sampling method, characterization, and waste valorization","authors":"M.N.S. Faraco , L. Simão , J. Acordi , E.F. Olivo , A. Zaccaron , O.R.K. Montedo , M.J. Ribeiro , C.P. Bergmann , F. Raupp-Pereira","doi":"10.1016/j.resourpol.2025.105496","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.resourpol.2025.105496","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Coal is a key energy source globally, and Brazil holds substantial reserves. However, approximately 50% of the coal extracted in Brazil is discarded as waste, often mixed into a single material without selective characterization. This study aims to establish a framework to help mining companies identify and implement strategies for sustainable coal mining practices in the study region. Residual fraction samples were collected and analyzed for their characteristics and potential applications. The results showed that the clay content in the waste is influenced by the age and depth of the coal deposits, while the beneficiation process determines the pyritic content. Based on these findings, four groups of residual fractions were identified for specific applications. Group 1, with higher carbon content, is suitable for processing and carbon concentration. Group 2, characterized by low pyrite content, coarse granulometry, and neutral pH, may be used to concentrate clay minerals for ceramics and mortars. Group 3, rich in clay minerals, is suitable for fertilizers, techno-soils, pozzolans, and geopolymers. Group 4 includes samples with potential for pyrite concentration. This study highlights the value of systematic waste sampling and evaluation, providing an effective strategy to promote the circular economy. This approach supports sustainable development in the research region and beyond by unlocking the potential of coal mining waste.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20970,"journal":{"name":"Resources Policy","volume":"102 ","pages":"Article 105496"},"PeriodicalIF":10.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143177562","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}

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Understanding and defining the social license to operate: Social acceptance, local values, overall moral legitimacy, and ‘moral authority’

IF 10.2 2区经济学

Resources Policy Pub Date : 2025-02-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.resourpol.2025.105488

Hugh Breakey , Graham Wood , Charles Sampford

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

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Resources Policy Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.resourpol.2025.105475

Abiodun Ismail Lawal , Francois Mulenga

{"title":"Prioritising the location of gold refining facility in Nigeria: An application of advanced multi-criteria decision making methods based on Fermatean fuzzy sets","authors":"Abiodun Ismail Lawal , Francois Mulenga","doi":"10.1016/j.resourpol.2025.105475","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.resourpol.2025.105475","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Value addition to raw gold through refining is a means for enhancing economic growth and minimizing unemployment. However, the improper location of gold refining facility may hinder the inherent advantages in value addition chain. This study therefore proposed novel Fermatean fuzzy Spearman rank correlation coefficient (FF-SCC) multi criteria decision making (MCDM) method to prioritise the gold refining facility location in Nigeria. The objectives of the study are achieved through the identification of various states in Nigeria with gold deposits and those with proxy locations to the gold bearing states. Three indices under the sustainable development goals (SDGs) which are economic, environment and society form the bases of the evaluation criteria. Fifteen different states form the alternative while eight criteria formulated within the sustainable development goals indices are used for the evaluation. The importance of the criteria in relation to the alternatives was assessed by the group of three experts. The outcome of the proposed four FF-SCC based MCDM methods ranked Oyo and Osun states either the first- or second-best place to locate the gold refining facility while Kogi State and Sokoto are ranked least. The proposed models are validated with FF-VIKOR MCDM method and their rankings are also similar.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20970,"journal":{"name":"Resources Policy","volume":"101 ","pages":"Article 105475"},"PeriodicalIF":10.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143100200","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}

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Critical minerals: A new source of macroeconomic fluctuation?

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Resources Policy Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.resourpol.2025.105477

Luccas Assis Attílio

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

IF 10.2 2区经济学

Resources Policy Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.resourpol.2025.105476

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

{"title":"With coal forever? Conflicted attitudes of residents in coal mining areas in the Czech Republic, Germany and Poland to coal phase-out","authors":"Bohumil Frantál , Justyna M. Chodkowska-Miszczuk , Filip Alexandrescu , Franziska Stölzel , Petr Klusáček , Ondřej Konečný , Diana Süsser , Agata Lewandowska , Dominik Zieliński","doi":"10.1016/j.resourpol.2025.105476","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.resourpol.2025.105476","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The paper presents results of an international comparative survey with local communities living in three coal mining areas in the Czech Republic, Germany, and Poland. The survey attempted to answer the questions to what extent do the perceptions of negative impacts and threats of coal mining, the attitudes towards coal mining and preferences for the pace of coal phase-out differ between the study areas and which factors significantly affect them. The survey focused on residents living in municipalities near active open-cast mines, who have personal experience with both the impacts of mining on the living environment and the effects of the closure of mines on the socio-economic situation in their regions. We found out a high degree of variance in perceptions and attitudes between areas but also within areas (between municipalities and specific groups of people). The results show that residents in coal mining areas hold complex and conflicted attitudes towards coal which are affected by specific geographical conditions, the extent of landscape impacts, and people’s relationships with places, communities, and the coal industry. The significant predictors of attitudes to coal proved to be perceptions of negative environmental impacts of mining, work relationship with coal industry, age, and gender, however, these factors have different significance in various local contexts. With this paper we offer a comparative local-level approach to the just transition as a process that is far from disembodied but instead is tied to specific landscapes and places.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20970,"journal":{"name":"Resources Policy","volume":"101 ","pages":"Article 105476"},"PeriodicalIF":10.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143156893","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}

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

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Resources Policy Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.resourpol.2025.105484

Li Yu , Ning Jia , Mo Li

{"title":"Lessons of eco-transition of a rural small town: The case of Manzhuang China from raw material processing industries to a circular economy","authors":"Li Yu , Ning Jia , Mo Li","doi":"10.1016/j.resourpol.2025.105484","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.resourpol.2025.105484","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Eco-transition has been a national priority policy in China. However, underdeveloped areas, such as small towns in rural areas, may face challenges in pursuing this policy due to a shortage of resources and externalities. This research, based on ecological modernisation theory, carried out a case study of <em>Manzhuang</em>, China, to explore how comparatively underdeveloped areas cope with the requirement of eco-transition to a circular economy from raw material processing industries. The research found that eco-transition guided by the concept of eco-modernisation requires integrated social, institutional, technological, and various sub-systems transformation as a whole. It is also necessary to take into account changes in the market. It is not enough to consider the improvement of technology alone. The research also showed that the socio-economic bottleneck relating to middle-stage industrialisation and fierce regional competition for investment has led to a dilemma in implementing such a policy agenda. This situation is particularly acute in underdeveloped areas. It is argued in the research that the local application of a circular economy as a means of implementing sustainable development may lose its significance without macroeconomic restructuring and regional coordination if it is to be achieved in comparatively underdeveloped areas.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20970,"journal":{"name":"Resources Policy","volume":"101 ","pages":"Article 105484"},"PeriodicalIF":10.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143100652","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}

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

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Resources Policy Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.resourpol.2025.105464

Jubril Animashaun , Lotanna E. Emediegwu

{"title":"Is there a subnational resource curse? Evidence from households in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria","authors":"Jubril Animashaun , Lotanna E. Emediegwu","doi":"10.1016/j.resourpol.2025.105464","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.resourpol.2025.105464","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Previous evidence suggests that mining-based extractive sectors have a net positive effect on local economies, further improving the local population’s living standards. In contrast to artisanal mining, we argue that hydrocarbon-based industries can have ambiguous implications on demand in sectors that will enhance local welfare. Using annual household data from the Niger Delta between 2010 and 2016, we utilize a combination of fixed effects and difference-in-differences, triple—differences (DDD), and treatment boundaries in oil production and households’ locations to produce unbiased estimates. Estimating at a subnational level allows us to exploit variation within a country, control for more potential sources of estimation bias, and measure the impact of compositional changes on households’ expenditures. We find that costs of living are higher by proximity to oil fields, but the mechanism is via the vicinity preferences for education. We find inconclusive evidence on other welfare indicators; limited employment opportunities and rent-seeking environment may explain the weak backward linkages and potential positive spillovers.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20970,"journal":{"name":"Resources Policy","volume":"101 ","pages":"Article 105464"},"PeriodicalIF":10.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143156894","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}

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

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Resources Policy Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.resourpol.2025.105462

Abraham Deka, Chioma Christiana Efe-Onakpojeruo, Huseyin Ozdeser

{"title":"Capitalizing on technological innovations and natural resources rent in alleviating ecological footprint in the Sub-Saharan African countries","authors":"Abraham Deka, Chioma Christiana Efe-Onakpojeruo, Huseyin Ozdeser","doi":"10.1016/j.resourpol.2025.105462","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.resourpol.2025.105462","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Environmental degradation has been and is still a cause of concern in the world, and the Sub-Saharan African Countries (SSAC) are not exceptional. This research seeks to examine the role of technological innovations (in the form of patents) and natural resources rent (NRR) in alleviating the damage presented on the environment by human activities. To attain the goal of this research, the STIRPAT model is adopted, taking into account the patterns of energy consumption, and environmental sustainability policies. The combined time series data of all SSAC is used, for the period 1990 to 2022. The contemporary Non-linear Autoregressive Distributive Lag (NARDL) method is used to analyse data of the present research model. The NARDL method presents the short and long run estimation findings; hence, the existence of asymmetric effects on the dependent variable is ascertained. The key findings of the research show that renewable energy (RE), environmental sustainability policies, non-renewable energy (NRE) and NRR presence significant negative effects on ecological footprint (EFP). Positive shocks of NRR reduces the EFP in the SSAC, both in the short and long run, while the negative shocks do not significantly affect EFP. Economic growth exhibit significant positive symmetric effects on EFP in the SSAC. Policies meant to enhance environmental quality in the SSAC are presented in this research.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20970,"journal":{"name":"Resources Policy","volume":"101 ","pages":"Article 105462"},"PeriodicalIF":10.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143100196","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}

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

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Resources Policy Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.resourpol.2025.105460

Jean-François Rousseau

{"title":"The transient sand frontier: Senegal's moving sand procurement strategies","authors":"Jean-François Rousseau","doi":"10.1016/j.resourpol.2025.105460","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.resourpol.2025.105460","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article probes the causes and implications from the displacement of construction sand procurement strategies from coastal areas to inland sand dune ecosystems in Senegal. It retraces how the gradual implementation of a beach sand mining ban triggered a transient sand frontier process in sand dune ecosystems that now sustain rising sand needs driven by rapid urbanisation in the coastal cities of Dakar and Saint-Louis. Vertical and horizontal limits to sand quarrying in the sand dunes lead to the extractive frontier constantly moving farther away from urban and periurban sand consumption sites. The resulting transient frontier process complements documented sand frontier scenarios where spatial extension, or commodity widening, combines with intensifying extractivism, or commodity deepening. In coastal Senegal, spatial extension rather proceeds in tandem with frontier closure. The sand transient frontier yields sand supply and price pressures that create challenges to Senegal development ambitions, most specifically those that entail the expansion of the concrete dependent affordable and premium city models. The development minerals agenda has so far proved insufficient to yield the discursive shift required for elevating sand supply as key to the achievement of development programs in Senegal. Connecting sand, the development minerals and the ‘strategic’ or ‘critical’ minerals agendas could help elevate sand supply-related challenges among policymakers' priorities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20970,"journal":{"name":"Resources Policy","volume":"101 ","pages":"Article 105460"},"PeriodicalIF":10.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143100657","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}

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

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Resources Policy Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.resourpol.2025.105466

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

{"title":"The nexus between the dependence on natural resources and environmental sustainability: Does institutional matter?","authors":"Noran Abd El Nasser, Dalia M. Ibrahiem, Rasha Sameh","doi":"10.1016/j.resourpol.2025.105466","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.resourpol.2025.105466","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Rapid increases in production and consumption associated with high growth levels have led to a significant rise in ecological challenges, including climate change and the exhaustion of natural resources (NRs). NRs have an encouraging effect on the economic progress of many emerging and developing economies; however, these countries may lack resource sustainability owing to deficient natural resource management and low institutional quality (IQ). In this sense, this study aims to investigate the relationship between excessive natural resource dependence (NRD) and environmental sustainability (ES) considering the presence of IQ, human progress, population growth (POP), renewable energy use (REN), urbanization (URB), foreign direct investment (FDI), and economic growth (EG). It applies country and time Fixed-effects (FE) panel data models to unbalanced panel data of 86 countries from emerging market and middle-income economies (EMMIEs) for the main purpose of analysis. The results reveal that natural resource rent, GDP per capita, human development index (HDI), and URB adversely affect ES, using carbon dioxide (CO<sub>2</sub>) emissions per capita and ecological footprint (EF) as dependent variables. In contrast, FDI, IQ, and REN variables have a promising effect on the environment. When the disaggregated impact of natural resource rents on ES is analyzed, the findings indicate that oil rents have a significant positive outcome on both CO<sub>2</sub> per capita and EF. On the contrary, forest rent and mineral rent are concluded to have insignificant effects on ES. The investigation highlights a need for reduced dependence on NRs, strengthening environmental regulations, and a transition to renewable energy sources due to their affordability and potential to reduce the extensive use of non-renewable resources. FDI is strongly recommended as an alternative avenue for EG in EMMIEs due to its positive externalities' effects on ES.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":20970,"journal":{"name":"Resources Policy","volume":"101 ","pages":"Article 105466"},"PeriodicalIF":10.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143156895","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}

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