Recommendations for assessing materials criticality

• DOI: 10.1680/warm.12.00002
• Publication Date: 2012-10-25T02:24:20Z
• Authors: Stafford Lloyd; Jacquetta Lee; Andrew Clifton; Lucia Elghali; Chris France
• Keywords: 690; 0502 economics and business; 05 social sciences; 12. Responsible consumption

This paper provides recommendations for assessing the criticality of materials (metals and non-fuel minerals), including need context-dependent assessment methods, providing a framework conducting assessments. Materials captures concerns over accessibility materials, as product material’s ‘supply risk’ impact supply restriction. Through review selected studies, problems with assessments are discussed, highlighting how these become particularly important when results used in decision making. Considering making highlights exhibits some characteristics ‘complex context’. Building on predefined attributes effective support complex contexts, made can be addressed to better assess future. These also include building metric-based methods by developing scenarios future material demand.