Natural Resources Research Publications on Resourcing Future Generations,and Introduction of Papers in this Special Issue

The Journal of Natural Resources Research (NRR) has, since its foundation in 1992, published and continues to publish peer-reviewed articles that make significant impact on resourcing future generations. This is in keeping with its aims and scope of publishing articles on quantitative analyses of natural (mainly but not limited to mineral) resources with regard to exploration, evaluation and exploitation, as well as environmental and risk-related aspects. However, the new papers introduced in this special issue of NRR are mostly qualitative studies with implications for policy decision-making relevant to the issue of resourcing future generations. These new papers and the recent inclusion of NRR for coverage in the Science Citation Index Expanded? (or SciSearch^®) and Journal Citation Reports^® (JCR) Science Edition will make NRR more attractive to researchers in the fields that are relevant to the issue of resourcing future generations, both as a source of knowledge as well as a medium for publication of research results.     

Introduction to the Special Issue on Eco-compensation in China

<正>Owing to emphasis on economic growth since 1978 the ecological and environmental problems are continuously emerging in China especially in the river source areas and ecological fragile areas of China and thus,these areas have to face the conflict between economic development and environmental protection.As a result,it is an urgent need to establish a scientific and reasonable ecological compensation mechanism to coordinate the contradiction.     

Compositional Balance Analysis: An Elegant Method of Geochemical Pattern Recognition and Anomaly Mapping for Mineral Exploration

Natural Resources Research - Geochemical pattern recognition and anomaly mapping are always involved in the fields of environmental and exploration geochemistry. Principal component analysis (PCA)...     

Geochemical Anomaly and Mineral Prospectivity Mapping for Vein-Type Copper Mineralization,Kuhsiah-e-Urmak Area,Iran: Application of Sequential Gaussian Simulation and Multivariate Regression Analysis

Natural Resources Research - In this paper, sequential Gaussian simulation (SGS) and number–size (N–S) fractal modeling were used for copper geochemical anomaly mapping in the western...     

Introduction to Special Issue on the Symposium on the Application of Neural Networks to the Earth Sciences

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Fuzzy Weights of Evidence Method and Its Application in Mineral Potential Mapping

This paper proposes a new approach of weights of evidence method based on fuzzy sets and fuzzy probabilities for mineral potential mapping. It can be considered as a generalization of the ordinary weights of evidence method, which is based on binary or ternary patterns of evidence and has been used in conjunction with geographic information systems for mineral potential mapping during the past few years. In the newly proposed method, instead of separating evidence into binary or ternary form, fuzzy sets containing more subjective genetic elements are created; fuzzy probabilities are defined to construct a model for calculating the posterior probability of a unit area containing mineral deposits on the basis of the fuzzy evidence for the unit area. The method can be treated as a hybrid method, which allows objective or subjective definition of a fuzzy membership function of evidence augmented by objective definition of fuzzy or conditional probabilities. Posterior probabilities calculated by this method would depend on existing data in a totally data-driven approach method, but depend partly on expert's knowledge when the hybrid method is used. A case study for demonstration purposes consists of application of the method to gold deposits in Meguma Terrane, Nova Scotia, Canada.     

Uncertainties in GIS-Based Mineral Prospectivity Mapping: Key Types,Potential Impacts and Possible Solutions

Natural Resources Research - GIS-based mineral prospectivity mapping (MPM) is a computer-aided methodology for delineating and better constraining target areas deemed prospective for mineral...     

Introduction to Special Issue on the 14th International Conference on Applied Geologic Remote Sensing

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河北省矿产资源开发利用研究

该文分析河北省矿产资源的现状和开发利用过程中存在的问题 ,讨论相关对策 ,提出全省矿业战略调整的新思路     

Introduction to the Special Issue on the “Mathematical Geology for Resource Exploration” Session at IGC32

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中国科学院地理科学与资源研究所

<正>The Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research(IGSNRR), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) was established in 1999 through a merger of two former CAS institutes:The Institute of Geography (IOG) and The Commission for Integrated Survey of Natural Resources (CISNAR).The former was established in 1940 and the latter in 1956.Both institutes had a long history of distinguished engagement in and contribution to the development of geography and natural resources     

青藏高原矿产资源的分布、形成及开发

通过分析青藏高原矿产资源的分布及储量,探讨青藏高原的成矿作用,指出青藏高原矿产资源极为丰富,能够作为我国"东部经济带"的战略资源接替基地,这对于保证我国矿产资源的可持续供应具有举足轻重的地位.但青藏高原生态环境脆弱、开发成本高、难度大,应坚持科学发展观,加速青藏高原优势矿产资源的勘查和开发,处理好资源开发与环境保护的关系.