Mineral Resources Economy 1

£137.95

Mineral Resources Economy 1

Context and Issues

Earth sciences The environment

Authors: Floriant Fizaine, Xavier Galiegue

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Language: English

Published by: Wiley-ISTE

Published on: 30th July 2021

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 1 Mb

ISBN: 9781119850847


Introduction

The constant increase in the consumption of mineral resources, as well as the growing awareness of their exploitation, is causing deep concern within the scientific community. This concern is justified by the fact that the energy transition will increase the pressure on these resources, as renewable energies require an increased and more diversified quantity of mineral materials.

Overview of the Book

This book presents an overview of the exploitation of these mineral resources, where the natural, regulatory and environmental constraints interfere with economic, financial and geopolitical interests. By mobilizing the fields of the humanities, geosciences and engineering, it also analyzes the challenges that the energy transition will encounter, challenges related to the contradictory effects that the acceleration of the extraction of these resources will have on their physical availability, the economies that exploit them and the populations that live off of them.

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