Critical Raw Materials Supply and Social License to Operate (SLO)
Beyond Hot Air - Webinar #1 2024
Speakers: Pamela Lesser, social scientist at University of Lapland (FI) and Frank Melcher, economic geologist at Montanuniversität Leoben (AT)
Chair: Marlene Auer, Uni Vienna and Austrian Polar Research Institute APRI
Date: 12th of April 2024
There is an elephant in the room: as we increase our consumption of critical raw materials, their availability becomes increasingly limited. We face unresolved issues regarding an often lacking social licence to operate (SLO) in mining regions. Furthermore, mining in Europe is not much discussed by national policy makers, nor are lay consumers very aware of where the CRMs that are crucial for a 'green' energy transition come from. The two speakers, with backgrounds in social science and economic geology respectively, will discuss the practicalities of mining CRM in Europe and the social, political and geological dimension of why these raw materials are considered 'critical'. In this webinar we aim to highlight double standards in times of 'going green'.
‘Beyond Hot Air. Conversations around critical raw materials supply for the ‘green’ transition’ is a sub-project to the ‘MinErAL - Knowledge Network on Mining Encounters and Indigenous Sustainable Livelihoods’ funded by SSHRC - Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
Contact us: bha.powi@univie.ac.at
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