Mineral Resources Economy 1: Context and Issues (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781789450248)

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.

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

Author: Floriant Fizaine,Xavier Galiegue
ISBN-10: 1789450241
ISBN-13: 9781789450248
Publisher: Wiley-Iste
Language: English
Published: 08/24/2021
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.19lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63d