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Note: Intro -- The Material Basis of Energy Transitions -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Chapter 1 The material basis of energy transitions-An introduction -- References -- Chapter 2 The repatriation challenge: Critical minerals mining in the United States -- Introduction -- The US context -- Reviewing the literature on extraction and society -- Methods -- Stories from the mining fields -- Alaska -- Wyoming -- Texas -- Critical elements and social license -- An emerging social science research agenda -- References -- Chapter 3 Metal-energy nexus in the global energy transition calls for cooperative actions -- Introduction -- Global energy system shifts from carbon driven to metal driven -- Energy transition: Becoming more metal driven? -- Energy-critical elements: Nexus energy and critical metals -- The sustainable material cycle in the global energy transition -- Global challenges call for cooperative action -- Challenges: Pressing constraints beyond physical scarcity -- Looking ahead: Joint efforts by stakeholders throughout the metal cycle and trade network -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 4 The dependency of renewable energy technologies on critical resources -- Introduction to the "critical," "resources," and "renewables" -- Renewable energy technologies -- The "criticality" aspect -- Material and nonmaterial resources -- Renewable energies and their material resources demand -- Biomass -- Water -- Run-of-river and reservoir type hydroelectric power plants -- Tidal power plant -- Solar -- Photovoltaics -- Solar thermal -- Concentrated solar power -- Wind energy -- Geothermal energy -- Conclusion: Materials demand for renewable energies -- References -- Chapter 5 Stationary battery systems: Future challenges regarding resources, recycling, and sustainability -- Background -- Future demand for stationary energy storage. , Potential lithium-based electrochemical energy storage options -- Calculation of the potential resource demand for batteries -- Approach, assumptions, and scenarios -- Scenario for LCO -- Scenario for NMC 111 -- Scenario for NMC 622 -- Scenario for NMC 811 -- Scenario for NCA -- Scenario for LFP -- Discussion of the scenarios -- Recycling and sustainability aspects of LIBs and PLBs -- Recycling of LIBs -- PLBs and potential recycling challenges -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Chapter 6 Making critical materials valuable: Decarbonization, investment, and "political risk" -- Introduction -- Resource-making" and critical raw materials -- Valuation, critical raw materials, and "political risk" -- Strategic" minerals, royalties, and stabilization provisions in DRC -- HySA and South Africa's platinum futures -- Conclusion: Provincializing criticality assessments -- References -- Chapter 7 Environmental impacts of mineral sourcing and their impacts on criticality -- Introduction -- Environmental impacts-Scope and data -- The lifecycle perspective -- Local environmental impact perspective -- Energy and environmental impacts -- Changing environmental impacts and mitigation -- Mines -- Processing, extraction, smelting, and refining -- Demand side -- Waste and recycling -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 8 Limits of life cycle assessment in the context of the energy transition and its material basis -- Introduction -- Life cycle assessment (LCA) and resource consumption indicators -- The role of indicator selection in LCA -- Resource accounting methods (RAM) -- Midpoint methods -- Endpoint methods -- What is the right indicator or method? -- Indicators and their relationship to the material demands of emerging renewable energy technologies -- Discussion on the use of indicators for evaluating resource saving potentials -- Conclusion. , References -- Chapter 9 Critical resources, sustainability, and future generations -- Introduction -- Critical resources, conflict resources, and sustainability -- Critical resources, conflict resources, and future generations -- Parfit's paradox and future generations -- The needs of future generations -- How many future generations do we need to consider? -- Taking precautions for future generations -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 10 Conflicts related to resources: The case of cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo -- Introduction -- Analyzing mining conflicts from a political-ecological perspective -- Cobalt: From the DRC to the electric car -- Conflicts around cobalt mining: The upstream end in the DRC -- Conflicts around cobalt mining: The downstream end in the Global North -- Conflicts around cobalt mining: Connections and contradictions -- Conclusion: Conflicts linked to raw materials required for energy transitions -- References -- Chapter 11 Voluntary sustainability initiatives: An approach to make mining more responsible? -- Introduction -- The landscape of voluntary sustainability initiatives -- Overview of initiatives -- Content of sustainability requirements -- Assurance systems -- Achievements and limitations -- Reach of voluntary initiatives -- Harmonization of standard requirements -- Transparency of mining and mineral supply chains -- Sustainability reporting and performance -- Limited capacity to deal with deviant and illegal behavior -- The cost of certification and voluntary initiatives -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 12 The role of a circular economy for energy transition -- Introduction -- Resource supply and competition -- Reducing supply risks using circular economy -- Product design and materials recovery -- Conclusions -- References. , Chapter 13 Substitution of critical materials, a strategy to deal with the material needs of the energy transition? -- Material substitution for renewable energy technologies -- Substance for substance substitution -- Service for product substitution -- Process for process substitution -- New technology for substance -- Creating substitutes: By engineering simulation -- Barriers to substitution -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 14 Renewable energy technologies and their implications for critical materials from a sociology of consumption per ... -- Introduction -- Consumption and society-nature relations -- The "why" of consumption: Sociocultural and sociopsychological functions of goods and services -- The case of electric vehicles and photovoltaic systems -- Discussion and conclusion -- References -- Chapter 15 Renewable energy and critical minerals: A field worthy of interdisciplinary research -- References -- Author Index -- Subject Index.

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