TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mario Schmidt (Ed.)
AB  - The book contains a collection of articles dealing with how the extraction of mineral resources can be considered in environmental analyses such as Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). The consumption of resources, e.g., metals, is increasing strongly worldwide. This is associated with more energy use; environmental pollution; and social, economic, and political consequences. An increase is also expected for the coming decades. At the same time, modern products and technologies, even in the field of renewable energies, require a large number of critical raw materials. A crucial question here is the exhaustibility of natural resources. What is the relevance of resource depletion today? Must a geological shortage of metals be expected in the foreseeable future? How could such a thing be considered in the LCA of products and weighed against other environmental aspects? The articles in question have been written over the past three years by leading experts in both geology and environmental sciences and show the breadth of the controversial discussion.
DO  - 10.3390/books978-3-03897-546-5
ID  - OAPEN ID: 32112
KW  - Mining
KW  - Environmental Impact
KW  - Life Cycle Assessment
KW  - Scarcity
KW  - Resource depletion
KW  - Mineral resources production
L1  - https://www.mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/1115
LA  - English
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/43878
PB  - MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
PY  - 2019
SN  - 9783038975465
SN  - 9783038975458
TI  - Consideration of Abiotic Natural Resources in Life Cycle Assessmentsnull
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