Lithium and water: Hydrosocial impacts across the life cycle of energy storage

JJA Blair, N Vineyard, D Mulvaney… - Wiley …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
As a key ingredient of batteries for electric vehicles (EVs), lithium plays a significant role in
climate change mitigation, but lithium has considerable impacts on water and society across …

[HTML][HTML] What should “we” do? Subjects and scales in the double-bind between energy transition and lithium extraction

J Köppel, M Scoville-Simonds - The Extractive Industries and Society, 2024 - Elsevier
It is now broadly accepted that lithium is needed to power the energy transition and address
climate change, or, simply stated,“we need lithium to save the planet.” And yet, we are faced …

Lithium scale-making and extractivist counter-futurities in Bolivia

M Goodale - Critique of Anthropology, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
This article uses the ethnography of the prelives of lithium industrialization in Bolivia to
contribute to wider debates–in anthropology and beyond–about the essentially contested …

[HTML][HTML] Critical mineral strategies in Australia: Industrial upgrading without environmental or social upgrading

L Sinclair, NM Coe - Resources Policy, 2024 - Elsevier
Australia is experiencing a rapid escalation in exploration for, and extraction and processing
of, critical minerals. This new boom is driven by changing geopolitics and global demand for …

Social equity and care for the earth: tensions and synergies in Latin America

S Deneulin - Oxford Development Studies, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Pursuing greater social equity in balance with ecosystems is one of today's greatest
challenges. Little is known about the conditions which might facilitate these objectives …

Ecologismo y desarrollo: dilemas de los progresismos latinoamericanos

G Cabaña - Análisis Carolina, 2024 - dialnet.unirioja.es
América Latina se encuentra en medio de un nuevo ciclo de gobiernos progresistas, que se
enfrentan a un escenario de crisis ecológica cada vez más agudo. Este artículo analiza …

Estrattivismo e urbanizzazione: diseguaglianze e conflitti nell'inserimento strategico del Salar de Olaroz

AV Gris - RIVISTA GEOGRAFICA ITALIANA, 2024 - francoangeli.it
In riferimento alla letteratura crescente sulle forme estese dell'urbanizzazione, questo
articolo esplora il nesso esistente tra estrattivismo e urbanizzazione. A partire dal caso …

Industrial Ecology and the Just Transition: Lithium extraction, manufacturing, and end-of-life management for electric vehicle batteries

MS Slattery - 2024 - search.proquest.com
This dissertation examines clean energy supply chains in the context of the just transition
and circular economy frameworks, focusing on a central technology for zero-emissions …

Digital Technologies, Smart Cities, and the Environment: In the Ruins of Broken Promises

A Kuntsman, L Xin - 2024 - degruyter.com
At the heart of this book lies a troubling, yet crucial question: how to reconcile the rapid and
expansive adoption of various smart technologies that are envisioned as environmentally …

The Impact of the United Nations Global Compact on Corporate Social Responsibility of the Chilean Lithium Industry

D Oberheide - 2023 - repositorio.uchile.cl
Whereas in the last century public problem-solving took place almost exclusively in
intergovernmental forums, in recent decades the locus of control has shifted towards multi …