Resource criticality and commodity production projections

Resources

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 23-33

  Giurco, Damien ^a   Mohr, Steve ^a,b   Mudd, Gavin ^b   Mason, Leah ^a   Prior, Timothy ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Dematerialization; Metals; Peak minerals; Sustainable

Indexed keywords

EID: 84895903048     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20799276     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/resources1010023     Document Type: Article

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