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SUBMITTER: Deetman S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5906757 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Deetman Sebastiaan S Pauliuk Stefan S van Vuuren Detlef P DP van der Voet Ester E Tukker Arnold A
Environmental science & technology 20180403 8
This study provides scenarios toward 2050 for the demand of five metals in electricity production, cars, and electronic appliances. The metals considered are copper, tantalum, neodymium, cobalt, and lithium. The study shows how highly technology-specific data on products and material flows can be used in integrated assessment models to assess global resource and metal demand. We use the Shared Socio-economic Pathways as implemented by the IMAGE integrated assessment model as a starting point. Th ...[more]