Governance of The World's Mineral Resources

Governance of the World’s Mineral Resources: Beyond the Foreseeable Future provides in-depth information on the geological scarcity of mineral resources and demonstrates the urgent need to implement sustainable utlisation of mineral resources, in order to ensure that these resources will be available for future generations too. The availability of critical resources, especially for modern technologies, is an increasingly important issue and from current research some key mineral resources are so geologically scarce that they may be exhausted within a century unless timely measures are taken. This book details the theory and data behind calculations of available mineral resources and steps necessary to achieve mineral sustainability worldwide, whether it is possible to keep providing sufficient mineral resources to a growing world population and for how long. It also details whether it will be possible for all countries to achieve and maintain resource delivery at levels equivalent to those in developed countries. Governance of the World’s Mineral Resources: Beyond the Foreseeable Future is therefore an important source of knowledge for postgraduates, academics and researchers in the fields of environmental science, sustainability and geology, as well as anyone in the field of mining and economics who need to account for sustainability of mineral resources. Provides a thorough overview of all considerations related to the sustainability of mineral resourcesComprehensively details the scarcest mineral resources and describes their applications, worldwide stock and sustainabilityCovers all aspects of sustainability of mineral resources, detailing the current challenges and possible worldwide solutionsIncludes case studies and extensive quantitative data from recent studies and in-depth research