Non-Renewable Resource Issues

1. Non-renewable Resource Issues: Geoscientific and Societal Challenges: An Introduction
Richard Sinding-Larsen, Friedrich-W. Wellmer

2. Raw Materials Initiative: A Contribution to the European Minerals Policy Framework
Slavko V. Šolar, Luca Demicheli, Patrick Wall

3. Discovery and Sustainability
Friedrich-W. Wellmer

4. Is Depletion Likely to Create Significant Scarcities of Future Petroleum Resources?
Roberto F. Aguilera, Roderick G. Eggert, Gustavo Lagos C.C, John E. Tilton

5. Coal: An Energy Source for Future World Needs
Thomas Thielemann

6. Uranium and Thorium: The Extreme Diversity of the Resources of the World’s Energy Minerals
Michel Cuney

7. The Principal Rare Earth Elements Deposits of the United States: A Summary of Domestic Deposits and a Global Perspective
Keith R. Long, Bradley S. Gosen, Nora K. Foley, Daniel Cordier

8. Evaluating Supply Risk Patterns and Supply and Demand Trends for Mineral Raw Materials: Assessment of the Zinc Market
Peter Buchholz, Maren Liedtke, Marko Gernuks

9. Stretching the Availability of Non-renewable Resources
Sigurd Heiberg, Friedrich-W. Wellmer

10. Secondary Raw Material Sources for Precious and Special Metals
Christian Hagelüken

11. Certified Trading Chains in Mineral Production: A Way to Improve Responsibility in Mining
Gudrun Franken, Jürgen Vasters, Ulrike Dorner, Frank Melcher, Maria Sitnikova, Simon Goldmann

12. Issues and Challenges in Life Cycle Assessment in the Minerals and Metals Sector: A Chance to Improve Raw Materials Efficiency
Mohan Yellishetty, Nawshad Haque, Alain Dubreuil

Keywords: Earth Sciences, Geology, Geoecology/Natural Processes, Physical Geography