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Coordinated and published by The Grassroots Institute, the Grassroots Journal of Natural Resources (GJNR) is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancements in natural resources throughout the world. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists, social scientists, policy analysts, managers and practitioners (on all academic and professional levels) all over the world to promote, discuss and share various new issues and developments in different arenas of natural resources.
Vitalii Bashtannyk1, Adel Bykova2, Mykola Popov3, Oksana Bashtannyk4, Petro Garasyim5,
Alina Akimova*6
1Department of Public Administration and Local Self-Government, Dnipro University of Technology, Dnipro, Ukraine.
Email: Bashtannyk_V.V@nmu.one | ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5969-3620
2Department of Economics and Economic Security, University of Customs and Finance, Dnipro, Ukraine.
Email: bykova.adel@gmail.com | ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7290-9094
3Department of Public Administration and Regionalism, Odessa Polytechnic National University, Odessa, Ukraine.
Email: popov_mykola67@gmail.com | ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0204-1810
4Department of History and Political Theory, Dnipro University of Technology, Dnipro, Ukraine.
Email: Bashtannyk.O.V@nmu.one | ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4067-3261
5Department of Accounting, Finance and Hotel and Restaurant Management, Ukrainian National Forestry University, Lviv, Ukraine. Email: garasym_p@nltu.edu.ua | ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5282-8799
6Department of Foreign Philology and Translation, Interregional Academy of Personnel Management, Kyiv, Ukraine.
Email: a_alina09@ukr.net | ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7546-2902
*Corresponding author
Grassroots Journal of Natural Resources, 8(2): 683-700. Doi: https://doi.org/10.33002/nr2581.6853.080232
Received: 20 June 2025
Reviewed: 20 June 2025
Provisionally Accepted: 12 August 2025
Revised: 12 August 2025
Finally Accepted: 20 August 2025
Published: 28 August 2025
Recently, the discourse of scholarly discussions within the field of sustainability and effective use of national resources has been significantly expanded and complicated. However, a range of important components for a comprehensive understanding of the ‘state-of-the-art’ is not integrated sufficiently. In particular, this refers to the issues of the role of human capital management and appropriate policies in the landscape of the green economy. The current research represents an attempt to fill this gap, outlining the existing patterns. The methodology implies a mixture of grounded theory and content analysis. The study indicates that a combination of poor governance quality and natural resource rents could have a negligible influence on economic growth and may have a negative impact on the economy in both the long and short run. The results also show that there is unidirectional causality from the interaction term to growth. This implies that natural resource rents and institutional quality may both influence the growth trajectory. The implications of green human capital are described, and the expediency of broader acceptance of a category of sustainable human capital is emphasized. In particular, it is demonstrated that green growth, which seeks to promote economic development while reducing environmental impact, is dependent on sustainable human capital. Systematization of domains of human capital management within the landscape of green economy, and covering the category of sustainable human capital, represents the core utility of this article.
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Bashtannyk, Vitalii, Adel Bykova, Mykola Popov, Oksana Bashtannyk, Petro Garasyim and Alina Akimova. 2025. “Modernizing Human Capital Management in the Face of Natural Resource Depletion Risks within Sustainable Development in the Green Economy Landscape”. Grassroots Journal of Natural Resources, 8 (2): 683-700. Doi: https://doi.org/10.33002/nr2581.6853.080232
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