This book combines the fundamentals of microeconomic theories of resource pricing and industrial organization theories of market structure-conduct-performance and vertical integration to understand and analyze supply chains in critical minerals markets. Providing a secure and sustainable critical minerals supply chain requires an adequate understanding of the economic and environmental impacts of critical minerals exploration and use, which this book does by exploring carefully selected topics on trade risk, investment promotion, economic policy uncertainty, green growth, and supply chain ethics. Understanding and managing global economic and financial risks in ensuring supply chain security is also achieved through detailed examination of systemic risk contagion, downside risk linkages, the role of geopolitical risks, market development risks, and lessons in risk management. Both country-specific and regional case studies are included to examine the economic, environmental, financial and policy facets of critical minerals supply chain markets, with a view to deriving policy lessons and recommendations for economic regions of seismic global importance, such as ASEAN, which is already on a regional carbon-neutral path. The selected case studies are focused and supported by rigorous qualitative and quantitative empirical analysis, including econometric modeling where necessary to generate reliable empirical evidence. This book on the economics and sustainability of critical minerals supply chains is highly recommended to readers seeking an in-depth as well as robust overview of recent empirical evidence on the design and delivery of a secure and resilient critical minerals supply chain with particular reference to the ASEAN and Asian economies including China, Japan and Australia.
