Innovation potential along the phosphorus supply chain: A micro and macro perspective on the mining phase.

Phosphorus is unique, given its characteristic of being essential for all life on Earth. The element is non-substitutable and finite in the form of highly concentrated phosphate-rock deposits. Thus, humankind should strive to utilize this resource in the most-efficient and sustainable manner.

Phosphate supply security for importing countries: Developments and the current situation.

Phosphorus's essentiality for all life on Earth is beyond doubt. As one of the three major macronutrients, it is a crucial building block of modern-day mineral fertilizers and, thus, an essential production factor for global food security. Its almost-exclusive primary sources are phosphate-rock deposits of either sedimentary or igneous origin.

Living sustainability, or merely pretending? From explicit self-report measures to implicit cognition.

Recent research supports that a person's self-reported explicit attitude is not necessarily consistent with their implicit attitude. However, in sustainability research, implicit cognitive measures are still at their early stages, and consider primarily singular aspects of sustainability. Here, we pose that the degree of congruence of individuals' implicit and explicit attitudes represents the foundation of any organization's sustainability culture.

Clearing the fog on phosphate rock data - Uncertainties, fuzziness, and misunderstandings.

Big Data, blockchains, and cloud computing have become ubiquitous in today's mass media and are universally known terms used in everyday speech. If we look behind these often misused buzzwords, we find at least one common element, namely data. Although we hardly use these terms in the "classic discipline" of mineral economics, we find various similarities.