Briefing: Minerals security of supply: a geological perspective

Autor:	Andrew Bloodworth, Gus Gunn
Rok vydání:	2012
Předmět:	Consumption (economics) Engineering business.industry Natural resource economics media_common.quotation_subject Economic shortage Prosperity Security of supply business Waste Management and Disposal Natural resource Civil and Structural Engineering media_common
Zdroj:	Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Waste and Resource Management. 165:171-173
ISSN:	1747-6534 1747-6526
DOI:	10.1680/warm.12.00018
Popis:	For more than 200 years many authors have expressed concern about the adequacy of natural resources to support economic growth and the spread of prosperity. Most of these predictions, however, are unnecessarily alarmist and are based on over-simplistic analysis of mineral reserve and consumption data. In fact, despite rapidly increasing demand, continued scientific and technological innovations have ensured that economic development has never been constrained by lack of mineral resources. However, ‘critical metals’, so-called because of their growing importance in new and green technologies and the high risk of supply shortage, present a particular problem because our knowledge of them is limited and many are by-products of major industrial metals. There is now an urgent need for research on all aspects of the lifecycles of these metals to ensure their future availability.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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