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Standard Grant: The Lithium Trade

标准补助金：锂贸易

基本信息

批准号：
1921777
负责人：
Javiera Barandiaran
金额：
$ 18.97万
依托单位：
University of California-Santa Barbara
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2019
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2019-09-01 至 2024-08-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1921777&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Standard Grant Lithium Trade

项目摘要

Lithium is used in light-weight, rechargeable batteries for electric vehicles, mobile devices, and renewable energy systems. Now in high demand, the global market for lithium is changing rapidly, raising expectations of growth and fears of economic busts and environmental harm. For instance, there is the desire to ensure a stable supply of lithium, while elected officials representing lithium mining communities hope to attract new industries. These communities also worry about the environmental consequences of increased extraction, as do multinational companies whose brands rely on marketing a sustainable product. Although booming demand has given these concerns urgency, similar concerns about the distribution of benefits and harms have historically shaped the extraction, trade and governance of other minerals important to global energy systems, such as oil, uranium and copper. This project asks how lithium production since the 1960s compares with the production of these other minerals. Stakeholders engaged across lithium's production chain will find this information useful in developing policies that respond to these disparate expectations and that are environmentally and socially responsible. Findings will be disseminated to various stakeholders through publications and public talks. This project will provide research training opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students in the Spanish language, broadening participation from under-represented students. It will also build collaborative partnerships with scientists assessing the impacts, opportunities, and challenges posed by new clean energy industries.This project is a comparative analysis of lithium production, identifying the forms of expertise that have participated in production, who had access to these forms of knowledge, their influence on national development policies, and the consequences for how quantities of lithium have flowed through global production networks. Research will take place over a two-year period in various archives that maintain records of the relationships between corporations, state agencies, military offices, and the scientists who pioneered lithium mining. Tracing these relationships through the Cold War years and into the rise of free-trade globalization, the principal investigator will analyze how technical and industrial capacity were created and distributed. They will also examine lithium development policies and the comparisons to copper, uranium, or oil stakeholders used over time to justify these policies. The research will advance theories of how natural resources, science, and technology are understood to produce positive development outcomes. The findings will also contribute to academic and policy debates about how to assess the benefits and sustainability of lithium extraction over long periods of time.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

锂用于电动汽车、移动设备和可再生能源系统的轻质可充电电池。现在锂的需求量很大，全球锂市场正在迅速变化，提高了对增长的预期，也提高了对经济萧条和环境危害的担忧。例如，人们希望确保锂的稳定供应，而代表锂矿开采社区的民选官员希望吸引新的产业。这些社区也担心开采增加对环境的影响，跨国公司的品牌依赖于可持续产品的营销。尽管不断增长的需求使这些担忧变得紧迫，但从历史上看，对利益和损害分配的类似担忧一直影响着对全球能源系统至关重要的其他矿产的开采、贸易和治理，如石油、铀和铜。这个项目询问自20世纪60年代以来锂的生产与其他矿物的生产相比如何。锂生产链上的利益相关者会发现，这些信息有助于制定政策，以回应这些不同的期望，并对环境和社会负责。调查结果将通过出版物和公开讲座传播给各利益攸关方。该项目将为西班牙语本科生和研究生提供研究培训机会，扩大代表性不足的学生的参与。它还将与科学家建立合作伙伴关系，评估新的清洁能源产业带来的影响、机遇和挑战。该项目是对锂生产的比较分析，确定参与生产的专业知识形式、获得这些知识的人员、它们对国家发展政策的影响，以及锂的数量如何流经全球生产网络的后果。研究将在两年的时间里在各种档案中进行，这些档案保存着公司、国家机构、军事办公室和开创锂开采的科学家之间的关系记录。从冷战时期到自由贸易全球化的兴起，这位首席研究员将追踪这些关系，分析技术和工业能力是如何创造和分布的。他们还将研究锂的发展政策，并与铜、铀或石油利益相关者进行比较，以证明这些政策的合理性。这项研究将推进有关如何理解自然资源、科学和技术能够产生积极发展成果的理论。这些发现还将有助于学术和政策辩论，即如何评估锂提取的长期效益和可持续性。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。