
The Material Basis of Energy Transitions
Description
Key Features
- Provides a comprehensive overview of key issues related to the nexus between renewable energy and critical raw materials
- Explores interdisciplinary perspectives from the natural sciences, engineering, and social sciences
- Discusses critical strategies to address the nexus from a practitioner's perspective
Readership
Students and researchers from social scientific disciplines, natural sciences, engineering studies, and interdisciplinary scholars interested in the field of renewable energies, circular economy, recycling, transport and mining. The book addresses researchers from disciplines such as sociology, geography, political science, economy, industrial ecology, materials science, and geology who are interested in interdisciplinary perspectives. Policymakers in the field of renewable energy, recycling and mining. Professionals from the energy and resource industry. Energy experts and consultants with interest in the interdisciplinary assessment of critical materials
Table of Contents
1. The Material Basis of Energy Transitions – An Introduction
2. Social Science Perspectives on the Energy-Climate-Metals Nexus
3. Metal-Energy Nexus in the Global Energy Transition Calls for Cooperative Actions
4. Dependency of renewable energy technologies on critical resources
5. Stationary battery systems: Future challenges regarding Resources, Recycling and Sustainability
6. Making Critical Materials Valuable: Decarbonization, Investment & ‘Political Risk
7. Environmental Impacts of Mineral Sourcing and their Impacts on Criticality
8. Limits of LCA in the context of energy transition and its material basis
9. Critical Resources, Sustainability and Future Generations
10. Conflicts related to resources: The case of cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo
11. Voluntary Sustainability Initiatives – an approach to make mining more responsible?
12. The role of a circular economy for energy transition
13. Substitution of critical materials – a strategy to deal with material needs of energy transition?
14. Renewable energy technologies and their implications for critical materials from a sociology of consumption perspective – The case of photovoltaic systems and electric vehicles
15. Renewable Energy and Critical Minerals – A Field Worthy of Interdisciplinary Research
Product details
- No. of pages: 256
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2020
- Published: August 5, 2020
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128195345
- eBook ISBN: 9780128235546
About the Editors
Alena Bleicher

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Alexandra Pehlken
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