Critical Raw Material supply chains - the Key to a Twin Transition?
(2023) STVK12 20231Department of Political Science
- Abstract
- The thesis investigates how the problem of Critical Raw Material supply chains is represented within the European Critical Raw Materials Act of 2023. Bacchi’s ‘What's Problem Represented To Be’ approach has been adapted and utilised to explore what aspects of these supply chains are problematised. By highlighting how the problem of supply chains is represented, this research aims to uncover what political, social and environmental implications are not mentioned and by extension, silenced within this European Critical Raw Materials Act. The application of the Sociotechnical Imaginaries framework highlights the factors included in the desired future of a twin transition fuelled by CRMs disseminated through the European Critical Raw Materials... (More)
- The thesis investigates how the problem of Critical Raw Material supply chains is represented within the European Critical Raw Materials Act of 2023. Bacchi’s ‘What's Problem Represented To Be’ approach has been adapted and utilised to explore what aspects of these supply chains are problematised. By highlighting how the problem of supply chains is represented, this research aims to uncover what political, social and environmental implications are not mentioned and by extension, silenced within this European Critical Raw Materials Act. The application of the Sociotechnical Imaginaries framework highlights the factors included in the desired future of a twin transition fuelled by CRMs disseminated through the European Critical Raw Materials Act and thereby promoted by the European Commission and the European Union. However, this analysis also shows that the plan that is set in place by the European Critical Raw Materials Act to reach a twin transition pertains weaknesses and shortcomings for addressing import dependency, supply chain vulnerability as well as social and environmental implications. (Less)
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- author
- Dürr, Alexander LU and Dreiska, Eliza LU
- supervisor
- organization
- alternative title
- A critical analysis of the European Critical Raw Materials Act of 2023
- course
- STVK12 20231
- year
- 2023
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- Critical Raw Material Supply Chain Vulnerability, Import Dependency & Geopolitics, Twin Transition, Critical Materials Extraction Impact, European Critical Raw Materials Act.
- language
- English
- id
- 9116449
- date added to LUP
- 2023-09-07 17:04:30
- date last changed
- 2023-09-07 17:04:30
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