Taking the step towards a more dynamic view on raw material criticality: An indicator based analysis for Germany and Japan

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Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2016, Pages

  Glöser Chahoud, Simon ^a,c   Espinoza, Luis Tercero ^a   Walz, Rainer ^a   Faulstich, Martin ^b  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS AND INNOVATION RESEARCH ISI   (Germany)

^b CLAUSTHAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Critical rawmaterials; Rawmaterial criticality; Supply risk; Trade data analysis; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

EID: 85018458994     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20799276     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/resources5040045     Document Type: Article

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