The political economy of rare earth elements : rising powers and technological change / [edited by] Ryan David Kiggins.
Rare earths are seventeen elements on the periodic table that comprise the lanthanides, metallic elements which, when combined with other substances, form materials with unique magnetic, conductive, and energy storage properties. Rare earths are crucial for human prosperity, security, and peace, ena...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Houndmills, Basingstoke Hampshire ; New York, NY :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2015.
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| Series: | International political economy series (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
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| Summary: | Rare earths are seventeen elements on the periodic table that comprise the lanthanides, metallic elements which, when combined with other substances, form materials with unique magnetic, conductive, and energy storage properties. Rare earths are crucial for human prosperity, security, and peace, enabling activities ranging from social networking and internet surfing to flying waging wars. The contributors argue that rare earths are essential to the information technology revolution on which humans have come to depend for communication, commerce, and, increasingly, engage in conflict. Therefore, safeguarding ready access to rare earths ensures that humans will continue to reap the social, economic, and political benefits of information, transportation, energy production and energy storage technologies. This edited volume demonstrates that rare earths are a strategic commodity over which political actors will and do struggle for control. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 228 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781137364241 1137364246 9781349577385 1349577383 9781137364258 1137364254 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |