Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) are essential in the low-carbon energy transition. However, the
social consequences of LIBs throughout the entire lifecycle have been insufficiently explored …

Regarding mineral resources, there is ambiguity around concepts such as scarcity, rarity,
criticality and depletion and associated assessment methods. This paper investigates three …

Sustainable development and digital transformation profoundly re-shape industrial societies
but have been studied largely independently. In light of pressing global environmental and …

Critical metal supply includes the mining, smelting and the recovery of secondary resources,
in which technological innovation plays an important role. However, there is a lack of …

The extraction of critical minerals used in clean technologies has profound impacts on
sustainable development goals (SDGs). Life cycle sustainability assessment (LCSA) is used …

How to ensure supply security of critical metals is a common challenge for China and even
developed countries. With the rapid development of information and communication …

In this article, the recently published SPOTTER approach, which allows for identifying
potential supply disruption impacts along the entire supply chain within life cycle …

Land is a key resource for human activities under growing pressure. Resource criticality
assessment methods investigate the extent to which a resource may become a limiting factor …

Purpose The concept of criticality concerns the probability and the possible impacts of
shortages in raw-material supply and is usually applied to regional economies or specific …

The present article introduces the SPOTTER approach, a novel way to assess supply
disruption impacts along the supply chain in the short-term (ie the next 5 years) and the …