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.

Book Information
ISBN 9780128238868
Author Theo Henckens
Format Paperback
Page Count 350
Imprint Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
Publisher Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
Weight(grams) 152g