Elsevier Governance of The World’s Mineral Resources: Beyond the Foreseeable Future

Governance of the World’s Mineral Resources: Beyond the Foreseeable Future provides in-depth information on the geological scarcity of mineral resources. The book demonstrates the urgent need to implement sustainable utilization of mineral resources, in order to ensure that these resources will be sufficiently available for future generations too. The availability of resources, especially for modern technologies, is an increasingly important issue. Some key mineral resources are so geologically scarce that their availability for future generations may not only become substantially less, but also much less affordable than for the current generation unless timely measures are taken. This book provides detailed data and calculations of the availability of mineral resources. The book elaborates on whether and how it is possible to keep providing sufficient mineral resources to a growing world population, and for how long. The book details also how and for how much time it will be possible for all countries, worldwide, to achieve and maintain service delivery of raw materials to their population at levels equivalent to those in developed countries in 2020. 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 sustainable provision of mineral resources. Review A balanced, realistic and concrete picture regarding the future availability of raw minerals and the steps needed to ensure global sustainability From the Back Cover Governance of the Worlds 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 Worlds 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. About the Author Theo Henckens obtained his Master’s degree in Chemical Technology at Eindhoven Technical University, The Netherlands, in 1972. After his study Theo Henckens specialized in the field of environmental protection and water management in different functions in the private sector and for the Netherlands government. From 1990 on, Theo Henckens was leader of a large number of internationally financed projects in the field of water and environment. After his retirement in 2011, Theo Henckens joined the Copernicus Institute of Utrecht University, The Netherlands, where he then obtained a PhD on the subject of “Managing raw materials scarcity in 2016. Between 2014 and 2020, Theo Henckens was the lead author of a number of studies published in peer-reviewed scientific papers on the subject of the geological scarcity of mineral resources.