Review of the sustainable supply of by product energy metals under the background of great-power competition
In the new situation of major adjustment of domestic and international metal resource strategies brought about by the competition among great powers,scientific analysis of the sustainable supply of byproduct energy metals is of great significance in supporting energy transformation and guaranteeing the security of byproduct energy metals.After systematically analyzing the theoretical mechanisms,assessment methods,regulatory policy of sustainable supply of byproduct energy metals in the context of great-power competition,the study comes up with the following findings.The impact of competition among great powers on the sustainable supply of byproduct energy metals is the result of the interaction of multiple systems and factors,such as host metals and byproduct metals,supply and demand,domestic and international strategies.Scholars in different fields,such as economics,geology and industrial ecology,have developed assessment methods for the sustainable supply of byproduct energy metals from different aspects,such as primary supply potential,recycling potential,demand changes and price mechanism.With the increasing competition among great powers,the analysis of the sustainable supply trend of byproduct energy metals in existing studies has been deepening from the global scale to the national or regional scale.Scholars have proposed policies to regulate the sustainable supply of byproduct energy metals from different industrial chains,including resource incremental policy,resource conservation policy,resource substitution policy and resource recovery policy.In the future,it is necessary to delve into the influence mechanism of great power competition on the sustainable supply of byproduct energy metals,integrate multidisciplinary theories and methods and incorporate the strategic objectives of great power competition into the study of sustainable supply of byproduct energy metals,and clarify the role of"China Factor"in the global sustainable supply trend of byproduct energy metals.
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