Sustainable governance of scarce metals: the case of lithium
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Minerals and metals are finite resources, and recent evidence suggests that for many, primary production is becoming more difficult and more expensive. Yet these resources are fundamentally important for society--they support many critical services like infrastructure, telecommunications and energy generation. A continued reliance on minerals and metals as service providers in modern society requires dedicated and concerted governance in relation to production, use, reuse and recycling. Lithium provides a good example to explore possible sustainable governance strategies. Lithium is a geochemically scarce metal (being found in a wide range of natural systems, but in low concentrations that are difficult to extract), yet recent studies suggest increasing future demand, particularly to supply the lithium in lithium-ion batteries, which are used in a wide variety of modern personal and commercial technologies. This paper explores interventions for sustainable governance and handling of lithium for two different supply and demand contexts: Australia as a net lithium producer and Switzerland as a net lithium consumer. It focuses particularly on possible nation-specific issues for sustainable governance in these two countries' contexts, and links these to the global lithium supply chain and demand scenarios. The article concludes that innovative business models, like 'servicizing' the lithium value chain, would hold sustainable governance advantages for both producer and consumer c…
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The viability of large scale production of many different types of lithium batteries is largely dependent on the availability of raw materials to build these batteries.
“The viability of large scale production of many different types of lithium batteries with well varied characteristics and capacities is largely dependent on the availability of raw materials to build these batteries”
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- Authors
- Prior, T., Wäger, P. A., Stamp, A., Widmer, R., & Giurco, D.
- Affiliations
- Empa (CH)
- ETH Zurich (CH)
- University of Technology Sydney (AU)
- Venue
- Science of The Total Environment
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2013-09
- Volume
- 461-462
- Pages
- 785-791
- ISSN
- 0048-9697 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2021429431
- Cited by
- 79
- References
- 35
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 8 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 10 · 2021: 12 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 8 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 4 · 2016: 6 · 2015: 5 · 2014: 2 · 2012: 1
- FWCI
- 5.74
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- The Science of The Total Environment (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- DORA Empa (Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa)) (submittedVersion)
- OPUS - Open Publications of UTS Scholars (University of Technology Sydney) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Mechanical Engineering › Extraction and Separation Processes
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Building and Construction › Mining and Resource Management
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Strategy and Management › Sustainable Supply Chain Management
- Keywords
- lithium, sustainable governance, critical minerals, lithium supply chain, lithium demand, lithium-ion batteries, recycling, servitization, value chain, Australia, Switzerland, resource constraints
- MeSH terms
- Australia, Commerce, Conservation of Natural Resources, Lithium, Switzerland, Government Regulation
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