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Nathaniel Dolton-Thornton

Prominent Hill Mine, Australia

Prospect Hill Mine, Australia

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Nathaniel
Dolton-Thornton

PhD Candidate, Energy and Resources Group, University of California, Berkeley

I am a PhD candidate in the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California, Berkeley. I research the political economy of critical minerals in clean energy transitions, with a focus on China and the United States. I also conduct related research with the Climate Policy Lab in The Fletcher School at Tufts University and the Klinger Lab at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Prominent Hill Mine, Australia

Research Interests

My research uses qualitative and quantitative methods to examine the political economy of critical mineral supply chains for energy transitions. Current projects explore mineral supply chains across several countries, including China, the U.S., and Argentina.

Prospect Hill Mine, Australia

Publications

Salar del Hombre Muerto, Argentina

'Global China' is a big part of Latin America's renewable energy boom, but homegrown industries and 'frugal innovation' are key

With Zdenka Myslikova. The Conversation (July 5, 2023).

Tenke Fungurume Mine, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Critical minerals, geopolitics, and the risks for achieving net-zero transition

Climate Policy Lab (May 1, 2023).

Triglav National Park, Slovenia

Achieving a multi-beneficial nature-based climate strategy: An institutional framework for advancing subnational climate action

California-China Climate Institute & The Nature Conservancy (June 2022).

Highlands, Scotland

Rewilding and repeopling in Scotland: Large-scale land managers' perspectives and practices

Journal of Rural Studies 86 (August 2021). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2021.05.010

Malin Head, Ireland

How should policy respond to land abandonment in Europe?

Land Use Policy 102 (March 2021). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.105269

Coigach, Scotland

Power to the people: Scotland's clean energy future is community owned. Can the United States follow suit?

Earth Island Journal (spring 2021).

Sulphur Bank Mercury Mine, Clear Lake, California

The Elem tribe's last stand

Earth Island Journal (winter 2019).

Awarded the San Francisco Press Club's Greater Bay Area Journalism Award, 2019.

Source for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's exhibition "Jules Tavernier and the Elem Pomo."

Global Climate Strike for Future, Cambridge, UK

Review: No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference, by Greta Thunberg

Orion (winter 2019).

Colquijirca Mine, Peru

Colquijirca Mine, Peru

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