1  Cover

      2  Title Page

      3  Copyright

      4  Introduction

      5  PART 1 Stakes 1 Toward a New Geopolitics of Raw Materials in the Energy Transition 1.1. Introduction 1.2. Measuring the criticality of raw materials and geopolitical risk 1.3. The geopolitics and geo-economics of raw materials in the energy transition 1.4. How can we manage strategic materials supply risk? 1.5. Conclusion: toward a new resource nationalism? 1.6. References 2 Legal Issues Regarding the Sustainable Management of Territorial and Extraterritorial Mineral Resources 2.1. National law regarding territorial mineral resources: the decisive issue of ownership 2.2. International law regarding territorial mineral resources: the central role of state sovereignty 2.3. International law regarding extraterritorial mineral resources: exploitation “for the benefit of mankind as a whole” 2.4. For a sustainable management of mineral resources 2.5. References 3 Mining and Societies 3.1. Introduction 3.2. Mines as a factor of settlement and landscape transformation 3.3. Mining in the Industrial Age 3.4. Contemporary mining transformations and challenges 3.5. Conclusion 3.6. References

      6  PART 2 Action Levers 4 Maintaining or Even Developing the Mining of Mineral Resources in Europe: The Case of Wallonia (Belgium) 4.1. Introduction 4.2. Geological resources in Wallonia 4.3. Extension of sites/quantity of mining? 4.4. Decrease in sites/quantity of operations 4.5. Some levers for action 4.6. Conclusion 4.7. References 5 Substitution: Promises, Principles and Main Constraints 5.1. Introduction 5.2. Main economic foundations of substitution 5.3. Elements, components, systems: what are we really substituting? 5.4. The main obstacles to substitution 5.5. Other aspects to be taken into account 5.6. References 6 Resource Consumption and Decoupling 6.1. Introduction 6.2. Global use of resources 6.3. Material consumption indicators 6.4. Decoupling the economy from resource consumption 6.5. Responsibility for resource consumption 6.6. Conclusion 6.7. References 7 The Economics of Recycling: Ambitions, Myths and Constraints 7.1. The recycling economy, an ancient history 7.2. Geological and urban mines, similarities and differences in logic 7.3. Understand the definitions and indicators of recycling in order to express its performance 7.4. A limited deposit because we can only recycle what we have consumed 7.5. Multiple factors influencing recycling and its effectiveness 7.6. The technical constraints of metal recycling 7.7. Environmental benefits of recycling 7.8. Conclusion 7.9. References 8 Low-tech: A Path Toward the Necessary Metallic Sobriety? 8.1. Cornucopians versus doomsdayers 8.2. The circular economy, mission impossible? 8.3. Toward a metallic frugality 8.4. A possible and desirable transition 8.5. References

      7  Conclusion

      8  List of Authors

      9  Index