Rare Earths, Real Insight - Ep 57: Julie Klinger

Cleaning Up. Leadership in an age of climate change.

Julie Klinger is an Assistant Professor of Geographer at the University of Delaware and also affiliated with the university's new Minerals, Materials and Society Program. She is the author of "Rare Earth Frontiers: From Terrestrial Subsoils to Lunar Landscapes”, Cornell University Press.

Julie Klinger was formerly Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University.

Julie lists her research interests as “the dynamics of global resource frontiers and space-based technologies with particular emphases in China, Brazil, and the United States; how diverse forms of violence and strategies for survival shape land use, environmental conservation, and livelihood security; rare earth elements; natural resource use; environmental politics; and outer space.

Further reading:

Official bio:

https://www.udel.edu/academics/colleges/ceoe/departments/gss/faculty/julie-klinger/

Rare Earth Frontiers: From Terrestrial Subsoils to Lunar Landscapes (2017)

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctt1w0dd6d

U.S. Geological Survey

https://www.usgs.gov/