Documents

Title: Resource Scarcity

Resources or materials are considered 'scarce' or 'critical' when there is a high demand from industry combined with a risk to their supply. Due to E...

Published: May 2013

Title: Resources that Don’t Cost the Earth

Author: Royal Society of Chemistry

The Resources that Don’t Cost the Earth workshop was held at the British Embassy in Berlin, 1-2 December 2011. It was organised in partnership with...

Published: June 2012

Title: Critical materials and The Netherlands – a view from the industrial-technological sector

Author: Derk Bol Materials innovation institute (M2i) and Ton Bastein (TNO)

Supply certainty of many metals and industrial minerals, crucial to modern society, is decreasing as a result of increasing demand combined with a ra...

Published: April 2012

Title: Critical Materials in Strategic Energy Technologies

Author: JRC

A JRC scientific and technical report assessing rare metals as supply-chain bottlenecks in low carbon technologies. Download now [DATE: 2011...

Published: December 2011

Title: Uncovering the Global Life Cycles of the Rare Earth Elements

Author: Xiaoyue Du & T. E. Graedel

A paper from the Graedel laboratory at Yale detailing quantitative life cycles for ten rare earth elements: lanthanum (La), cerium (Ce), praseodymium...

Published: November 2011

Title: Critical Materials For Sustainable Energy Applications

Author: Resnick Institute

Executive summary "This report examines the current and future outlook for critical materials used in sustainable energy applications. These are ma...

Published: September 2011

Title: European Pathway to Zero Waste (EPOW) report

Author: EPOW

Study into the feasibility of protecting and recovering critical raw materials through infrastructure development in the south east of England...

Published: March 2011