Responses to alternative forms of mineral scarcity: Conflict and cooperation

Beyond Resource Wars: Scarcity, Environmental Degradation, and International Cooperation

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 239-285

  Shields, Deborah J ^a,b   Šolar, Slavko V ^c  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^c Geological Survey of Slovenia   (El Salvador)

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