Governance of the World's Mineral Resources: Beyond the Foreseeable Future

ISBN-13: 9780128238868 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 470 str.

Theo Henckens

Spis treści

1. Introduction 2. The Availability of Mineral Resources in the Earth's Crust 3. Limits to the Extractability of Mineral Resources4. Critical Raw Materials5. Mineral Resources Ethics6. The Price Mechanism7. Thirteen Scarce Resources Analyzed8. Mineral Resources Governance9. Setting up an International Agreement10. Epilogue11. Glossary12. List of Abbreviations

O autorze

Theo Henckens obtained his Master's degree in Chemical Technology at Eindhoven Technical University, The Netherlands, in 1972. After his study Theo Henckens specialized in the field of environmental protection and water management in different functions in the private sector and for the Netherlands government. From 1990 on, Theo Henckens was leader of a large number of internationally financed projects in the field of water and environment. After his retirement in 2011, Theo Henckens joined the Copernicus Institute of Utrecht University, The Netherlands, where he then obtained a PhD on the subject of "Managing raw materials scarcity” in 2016. Between 2014 and 2020, Theo Henckens was the lead author of a number of studies published in peer-reviewed scientific papers on the subject of the geological scarcity of mineral resources.