Scholars concerned with abuses of the "resource privilege" by the governments of developing states sometimes call for national sovereignty over the natural resources that lie within its borders. While such claims may resist a key driver of the "resource curse" when applied to mineral resources in the ground, and are often recognized as among a people's territorial rights, their implications dif...

Data on energy and mineral reserves suggest that natural resource abundance has not been a significant structural determinant of economic growth between 1970 and 1989. The story behind the effect of natural resources on economic growth is a complex one that typical growth regressions do not capture well. Preliminary evidence suggests that natural resources may affect economic growth through bot...

An efficient empirical statistical method is developed to improve the process of mineral resource estimation seabed polymetallic nodules and applied analyze abundance in Clarion Clipperton Zone (CCZ). The newly proposed based on three hypotheses as foundation for a model “idealized nodules”, which was validated by analyzing nodule samples collected from within Tonga Offshore Mining Limited (TOM...

The theoretical description of exploitation competition, known as resource competition theory (RCT) or resource-ratio theory, has been tested in terrestrial plant communities and microorganisms in laboratory cultures. Applications in animal ecology have been rare, although the theory itself is generic. A major difficulty is that the description of resources in RCT is fundamentally different fro...

For many people the term sustainable mining is an oxymoron. After all, mining entails the exploitation of non-renewable resources. Eventually these resources will be gone and mining will have to cease. As a result, many concerned individuals urge society to conserve non-renewable resources and where possible to use renewable resources instead. Drawing on what we have learned from the debate ove...