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Resources 2012, 1, 1-2; doi:10.3390/resources1010001 OPEN ACCESS resources ISSN 2079-9276 /journal/resources Editorial Resources: An Open Access Journal of Natural Resources and Their Management Richard F. Kazmierczak, Jr. Editor in Chief of Resources, Center for Natural Resource Economics Policy (CNREP), Louisiana State University, 101 Woodin Hall, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA; E-Mail: rkazmierczak@ Received: 23 April 2012 / Accepted: 24 April 2012 / Published: 24 April 2012 Abstract: Resources is an international, peer-reviewed open access journal that publishes original manuscripts, communications, review articles, and policy discussions about all aspects of natural resources and their management. The journal seeks to expand, in a rapid and rigorous way, our understanding of natural endowments, their management, and how they interact with the most personal of resources, the human community. As Resources embarks on its first year of publication, it is the perfect time to consider how the journal can not only foster communication within the scientific community, but also how it can be a platform for expanding the world’s understanding of our natural endowments, their management, and how they interact with the most personal of resources, the human community. By their very definition, resources form the living and non-living support systems for human life, encompassing everything from energy, land, water, atmosphere, wetlands, forests, wildlife and fisheries, and beyond. Unfortunately, a superficial familiarity with resource use breeds a form of contempt and hubris that only becomes obvious when serious problems arise. From the early mercury poisoning of Minimata Bay, Japan, to the collapse of the North Atlantic cod fishery, and continuing through the twin threats of increasing atmospheric temperatures and sea-levels, the scientific community has endeavored to pierce through superfic