Sustainable Mineral Resource Management—Insights into the Case of Phosphorus

Gerald Steiner and Bernhard Geissler
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Bernhard Geissler: Department of Knowledge and Communication Management, Danube University Krems, Dr. Karl-Dorrek-Straße 30, 3500 Krems, Austria

Sustainability, 2018, vol. 10, issue 8, 1-8

Abstract: Although it is among the most abundant elements in Earth’s crust (11th [ 1 ]) and water (13th [ 2 ]), phosphorus (P) is commonly referred to as “life’s bottleneck”, as “life can multiply until all the phosphorus is gone, and then there is an inexorable halt which nothing can prevent . . . ” [ 3 ]. [...]

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Date: 2018
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