Dear colleagues

Extended deadline: Please see our Call for Papers for our panel at the 
International Conference on Public Policy (ICPP) in Montreal, 26-28 June 2019 
(see below). The extended deadline for abstracts is Monday 11 February 2019.
Please email your abstracts to [email protected]

Information on the conference and panel (T14P13) is at: 
http://www.ippapublicpolicy.org/conference/icpp4/10

Many thanks,
Natalie Ralph and Linda Hancock

PANEL: T14P13 - Resource Use, Circular Economy and Governance Impacts in Energy 
Transitions
Chairs: Dr Natalie Ralph - [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>; 
and Prof. Linda Hancock - 
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>

Energy transitions to renewable/alternative energy (RE) technologies require 
resources and materials such as those categorised as 'critical materials' by 
various countries (e.g. lithium, rare earths) and others regulated as 'conflict 
minerals' (e.g. tin, tungsten, tantalum, gold). Concurrently, RE technology 
design is increasingly required to align to circular economy systems. This 
shift however, may not be so quick as to avoid tremendous pressures on the 
communities and environments with reserves of these materials. Papers are 
invited that address (although not exclusively) the key research question and 
hypotheses including: in the energy transition, what are the public and private 
policy/governance mechanisms needed, and the potential national and 
geopolitical impacts, from ensuring RE aligns to the circular economy, with 
minimal/efficient resource production and use? To what extent is it possible or 
desirable, to reach a 'no more mining' context for specific materials due to 
the establishment of circular economy systems such as recycling? Can we 
hypothesise that RE embedded in circular economy systems will culminate in 
decreasing social, political and environmental negative impacts? And/or, that 
parallel to the circular economy, RE systems and technology development must 
consider critiques of the centrality of economic growth due to resource limits 
and impacts from a possible scenario where countries must steady/reduce their 
economic and GDP growth as explored in Degrowth and similar literature?

Please email your abstract (300-500 words) outlining your paper project, 
research question, methodology and how it fits with the panel research 
question(s) to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
You will need to create or log-in to your conference account (go to: 
http://www.ippapublicpolicy.org/conference/icpp4-montreal-2019/10
Note: Your co-authors must also create an account.

Many thanks
Natalie Ralph and Linda Hancock

Dr Natalie Ralph
Associate Research Fellow
ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science, and
Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation

[Alfred Deakin Institute of Citizenship and 
Globalisation]<http://www.deakin.edu.au/adi>

Deakin University
Bldg C, Level 1
Melbourne Burwood Campus,
221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, VIC 3125
+61 (0) 402 653 238
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
LinkedIn: 
www.linkedin.com/pub/natalie-ralph/51/427/b96<http://www.linkedin.com/pub/natalie-ralph/51/427/b96>
Skype: natalieralph1
Recent Publications:
- Ralph, N., Hancock, L., 2018, Energy Security, Transnational Politics, and 
Renewable Electricity Exports in Australia and Southeast Asia, Energy Research 
& Social Science.
-Ralph, N., Hancock, L., 2018, Exploring the Role of Alternative Energy 
Corporations in Ethical Supply Chains and Corporate Peacebuilding, Global 
Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations 24, 1. 
Doi: https://doi.org/10.5555/1075-2846.24.1.81.
-Hancock, L, Ralph, N, Armand, M, Macfarlane, D, Forsyth, M., 2018 In the Lab: 
New Ethical and Supply Chain Protocols for Battery and Solar Alternative Energy 
Laboratory Research Policy and Practice, Journal of Cleaner Production, 187, 
485-495.
- Hancock, L., Ralph, N., Martino F.P., 2018, Applying Corporate Political 
Activity (CPA) Analysis to Australian Gambling Industry Submissions Against 
Regulation of Television Sportsbetting Advertising, PLoS ONE 13(10): e0205654. 
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0205654.
-Hancock, L., Ralph, N., Ali, S.H., 2017, Bolivia's Lithium Frontier: Can 
Public Private Partnerships Deliver a Minerals Boom for Sustainable 
Development?, Journal of Cleaner Production; doi: 
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.12.264.
-Ralph, N, Kennedy, E 2017 'Stakeholder Engagement and Corporate Peacemaking', 
in P. Molthan-Hill (ed.) The Business Student's Guide to Sustainable 
Management, 2nd Edition (UK: Greenleaf Publishing), 461-500.
 -Ralph, N., 2015, Peacemaking and the Extractive Industries: Towards a 
Framework for Corporate Peace, Greenleaf Publishing/Routledge, UK.



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