Contents: F.-W. Wellmer: Foreword for Current Issues of Global Resource Management - Michael Nippa: The Emperor's New Economy. Lessons from the Rise and Fall of a Management Fad - Peter Kausch: Strategic Changes in the Mining Industry - Ruprecht Vondran: Does Germany Need a Raw Materials Policy? - Steve Reynish: Valuation of Operating Mines and New Projects - Peter Kaul: Project Finance in the Resource Industry.
The Editors: Michael Nippa, Chair of Management, Leadership, and Human Resources at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration at Freiberg University of Mining and Technology since 1997. Management consultant for top performing German companies since 1987. Visiting Scholar at Marshall School of Business at U.S.C., Los Angeles, and Australian Graduate School of Management, Sydney. Current research areas: corporate governance, management fads, biotechnology industry, strategic decision. Peter Kausch, by education Mining Engineer with a doctorate in legal aspects of ocean mining; former senior director in Natural Resources industry.