Strategic and Critical Materials

ISBN-13: 9780367288822 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 303 str.

James E. Mielke; L. Harold Bullis

Opis

The authors of this book examine controversies such as U.S. dependency on imports for supplies of strategic minerals and materials and that the Soviet Union may be pursuing a so-called "resources war" with the West and stress the need to consider basic resources, foreign policy, industry, and technical issues in an interrelated fashion.

Spis treści

Preface -- Introduction -- Materials and the Economy -- The Global Distribution and Production of Raw Materials -- The International Flow of Materials -- Strategic and Critical Minerals and Materials in the United States -- U.S. Materials Import Dependency and Vulnerability -- Approaches to Reducing U.S. Materials Import Vulnerability -- Problems Associated with Materials Supply and Demand -- The Need for a National Policy for Materials

O autorze

L. Harold Bullis, formerly a specialist in science and technology and head of the Geosciences, Materials, and Industrial Technology Section of the Science Policy Research Division of the Congressional Research Service, is currently a private consultant. James E. Mielke is a specialist in earth and marine sciences and is head of the Geosciences, Materials, and Industrial Technology Section of the Science Policy Research Division of the Congressional Research Service, U.S. Library of Congress.