By Professor Saleem Ali

Journal articles

Li J; Zhu Y; Dou S; Zhang Q; Ali SH; Liu G; Zhao Y; Zhou N; Cheng J; Xu D, 2026, 'The dynamic complexity of critical mineral supply chains reveals the paradox of energy transition', Ecological Economics, 248, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2026.109065

Hale TN; Ali SH, 2026, 'Correction: Mineral diplomacy in Greenland: learning from US-European history of engagement at the Ivittuut cryolite mine', Frontiers in Political Science, 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpos.2026.1841487

Ayeb-Karlsson S; Kelman I; Hayward G; Levin N; Oromeng KV; Zickgraf C; Ali SH; Kniveton D, 2026, 'The need for a systems approach to better understand the linkages between natural resources and human (im)mobility', Sustainability Science, 21, pp. 909 - 915, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11625-026-01814-y

Ahmad S; Ali SH, 2026, 'Help small-scale gold miners to transition away from mercury use', Nature, 649, pp. 289, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-04121-1

Ali SH; Gilbert A; Kuo A, 2026, 'Battery metals from the deep sea: using industrial ecology for comparative analysis of impacts with terrestrial mining', Environmental Science Advances, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d6va00013d

Hale TN; Ali SH; Klinger JM; Walter M, 2026, 'Mapping Arctic Futures: Harnessing Participatory Tools for Sustainable Development in Ivittuut, Greenland', Society and Natural Resources, 39, pp. 1439 - 1457, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08941920.2026.2640573

Ahmad S; Steen J; Zajac T; Azadi M; Ali SH, 2025, 'Carbon emissions in metal manufacturing productivity: A global analysis of aluminium smelting', Energy Research and Social Science, 129, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2025.104343

Sidorstov R; Ali SH; Scarlett T; Shah K; Panikkar B; Trochim E; Bennett MM; Hale TN; Oikonomou P, 2025, 'Utilizing Arctic infrastructure data for ecological restoration, just transitions, and protection of cultural heritage', Sustainable Earth Reviews, 8, pp. 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s42055-025-00115-z

Hale TN; Ali SH; Christman P; Bleischwitz R; Svobodova K; Primmer E; Moutinho VLP; Kulczycka J, 2025, 'Critical minerals policies need clearer interface with scientifically credible targets (vol. 8, e25, 2025)', GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY, 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/sus.2025.10022

Ivanova MH; Berkman PA; Hamid ZA; Ali SH; Susskind LE, 2025, 'Strategic foundations of science diplomacy', Science New York N Y, 390, pp. 138 - 139, http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.aec1419

Ali SH, 2025, 'The lithium dilemma', Science, 390, pp. 136 - 136, http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.ady8020

Nagano H; Ali SH; Puppim de Oliveira JA, 2025, 'Decoupling material consumption from economic development? Evidence of dematerialization from a multi-decade analysis of 176 countries', Carbon Footprints, 4, http://dx.doi.org/10.20517/cf.2025.36

Hale TN; Ali SH; Christman P; Bleischwitz R; Svobodova K; Primmer E; Moutinho VLP; Kulczycka J, 2025, 'Critical minerals policies need clearer interface with scientifically credible targets', Global Sustainability, 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/sus.2025.10014

Ali SH; Franks DM; Puppim de Oliveira JA; Madani K; Gaffney O; Anggraini E; Wantchekon L; Zeng X, 2025, 'A global minerals trust could prevent inefficient and inequitable protectionist policies', Science, 388, pp. 1028 - 1030, http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.adv9841

Zhu Y; Ye X; Ali SH; Dou S; Cheng J; Liu G; Xu D, 2025, 'Resource substitutability path for China's energy storage between lithium and vanadium', Iscience, 28, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2025.112462

Ali SH; Boyer NE; Mundaca G; de Silva L; Jabalameli S; Taganova J, 2025, 'The Role of Land and Natural Resources in Negotiating Peace Agreements', Negotiation Journal, 41, pp. 228 - 250, http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/ngtn_a_00017

Sahu AK; Rufford TE; Ali SH; Knibbe R; Smart S; Jiao F; Bell AT; Zhang X, 2025, 'Material needs for power-to-X systems for CO2 utilization require a life cycle approach', Chemical Science, 16, pp. 5819 - 5835, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d4sc07752k

Ali SH, 2025, 'Elon Musk has some supporters in science', Nature, 639, pp. 38, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-00664-5

Hale TN; Ali SH, 2025, 'Mineral diplomacy in Greenland: learning from US-European history of engagement at the Ivittuut cryolite mine', Frontiers in Political Science, 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpos.2025.1584988

Kadhim ZR; Ali SH; AL-Rubaye SA, 2025, 'The economic impacts of the post-harvest losses of tangerines and Seville oranges crops in Iraq (Baghdad Governorate: As a case study)', BULGARIAN JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE, 31, pp. 237 - 244

Ali SH, 2024, 'Threat Multiplier: Climate, Military Leadership, and the Fight for Global Security', SCIENCE, 385, pp. 940 - 940, http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.adq4752

Ali SH, 2024, 'Deep-sea mining opponents: there’s no free lunch when it comes to clean energy', Nature, 626, pp. 480, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-00404-1

Wang L; Ali SH; Thornton DH; Farhadinia MS, 2024, 'Editorial: Transboundary conservation', Frontiers in Conservation Science, 5, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fcosc.2024.1363427

Ali SH, 2024, 'Material conflicts', Science, 383, pp. 374, http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.adk9387

Brottrager M; Crespo Cuaresma J; Kniveton D; Ali SH, 2023, 'Natural resources modulate the nexus between environmental shocks and human mobility', Nature Communications, 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37074-y

Sarupria M; Sultana NN; Ali SH, 2023, 'SDG 12 needs an oceanic interface: sand mining, saltwater intrusion (SWI) and coastal sustainability', Sustainable Earth Reviews, 6, pp. 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s42055-023-00061-8

Ali SH, 2023, 'The US should get serious about mining critical minerals for clean energy', Nature, 615, pp. 563, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-00790-y

Ali SH, 2023, 'There's no free lunch in clean energy', NATURE, 615, pp. 563 - 563

Ahmad S; Steen J; Ali S; Valenta R, 2023, 'Carbon-adjusted efficiency and technology gaps in gold mining', Resources Policy, 81, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.resourpol.2023.103327

Katona S; Paulikas D; Ali S; Clarke M; Ilves E; Lovejoy TE; Madin LP; Stone GS, 2023, 'Land and deep-sea mining: the challenges of comparing biodiversity impacts', Biodiversity and Conservation, 32, pp. 1125 - 1164, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10531-023-02558-2

Davis KF; Müller MF; Rulli MC; Tatlhego M; Ali S; Baggio JA; Dell’Angelo J; Jung S; Kehoe L; Niles MT; Eckert S, 2023, 'Transnational agricultural land acquisitions threaten biodiversity in the Global South', Environmental Research Letters, 18, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/acb2de

Hale TN; Ali SH, 2023, 'Afghanistan’s mineral fortune: prospects for fuelling a green transition?', Geological Society Special Publication, 526, pp. 69 - 93, http://dx.doi.org/10.1144/SP526-2022-46

Ali SH; Diallo P; Kameni AB; Le Billon P; Oromeng K; Davis KF; Carr ER, 2023, 'In Africa, “climate‐smart” conservation must be coupled with poverty alleviation', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 120, http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2309279120

Li Q; Subica A; Kendra J; Ali SH, 2023, 'Tradition or Modernization? The Dilemma of Chinese Indigenous Communities', International Journal of Heritage Studies, 29, pp. 382 - 397, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2023.2193818

Paulikas D; Katona S; Ilves E; Ali SH, 2022, 'Deep-sea nodules versus land ores: A comparative systems analysis of mining and processing wastes for battery-metal supply chains', Journal of Industrial Ecology, 26, pp. 2154 - 2177, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jiec.13225

Ali SH; Kalantzakos S; Eggert R; Gauss R; Karayannopoulos C; Klinger J; Pu X; Vekasi K; Perrons RK, 2022, 'Closing the Infrastructure Gap for Decarbonization: The Case for an Integrated Mineral Supply Agreement', Environmental Science and Technology, 56, pp. 15280 - 15289, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.2c05413

Gloaguen R; Ali SH; Herrington R; Ajjabou L; Downey E; Stewart IS, 2022, 'Mineral revolution for the wellbeing economy', Global Sustainability, 5, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/sus.2022.13

Altingoz M; Ali SH; Vladich H, 2022, 'Hydropolitics in the Black Sea: From Political Competition to Environmental Cooperation?', Case Studies in the Environment, 6, http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/cse.2022.1713911

Azadi M; Lèbre É; Ali SH; Steen J; Wall F, 2022, 'Future of battery metals supply', Resources Conservation and Recycling, 182, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2022.106283

Zickgraf C; Ali SH; Clifford M; Djalante R; Kniveton D; Brown O; Ayeb-Karlsson S, 2022, 'Correction to: Natural resources, human mobility and sustainability: a review and research gap analysis (Sustainability Science, (2022), 17, 3, (1077-1089), 10.1007/s11625-021-01073-z)', Sustainability Science, 17, pp. 1141, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11625-022-01126-x

Zickgraf C; Ali SH; Clifford M; Djalante R; Kniveton D; Brown O; Ayeb-Karlsson S, 2022, 'Natural resources, human mobility and sustainability: a review and research gap analysis', Sustainability Science, 17, pp. 1077 - 1089, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11625-021-01073-z

Biermann F; Oomen J; Gupta A; Ali SH; Conca K; Hajer MA; Kashwan P; Kotzé LJ; Leach M; Messner D; Okereke C; Persson Å; Potočnik J; Schlosberg D; Scobie M; VanDeveer SD, 2022, 'Solar geoengineering: The case for an international non-use agreement', Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/wcc.754

Morais J; Corder G; Golev A; Lawson L; Ali S, 2022, 'Global review of human waste-picking and its contribution to poverty alleviation and a circular economy', Environmental Research Letters, 17, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac6b49

Zhu Y; Xu D; Ali SH; Cheng J, 2021, 'A hybrid assessment model for mineral resource availability potentials', Resources Policy, 74, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.resourpol.2021.102283

Rosa L; Rulli MC; Ali S; Chiarelli DD; Dell’Angelo J; Mueller ND; Scheidel A; Siciliano G; D’Odorico P, 2021, 'Author Correction: Energy implications of the 21st century agrarian transition (Nature Communications, (2021), 12, 1, (2319), 10.1038/s41467-021-22581-7)', Nature Communications, 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24752-y

Rosa L; Rulli MC; Ali S; Chiarelli DD; Dell’Angelo J; Mueller ND; Scheidel A; Siciliano G; D’Odorico P, 2021, 'Energy implications of the 21st century agrarian transition', Nature Communications, 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22581-7

Zeng X; Ali SH; Li J, 2021, 'Estimation of waste outflows for multiple product types in China from 2010–2050', Scientific Data, 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-00796-z

Ali SH, 2021, 'Environmental Governance and Moratoria Debates on Sea Nodules Mining', Marine Technology Society Journal, 55, pp. 108 - 109, http://dx.doi.org/10.4031/MTSJ.55.6.11

Ali SH, 2021, 'The allure of an ordered UniverseTen Patterns That Explain the UniverseBrian Clegg MIT Press, 2021. 224 pp', Science New York N Y, 373, pp. 1448, http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.abj8932

Milanez B; Ali SH; Puppim de Oliveira JA, 2021, 'Mapping industrial disaster recovery: Lessons from mining dam failures in Brazil', Extractive Industries and Society, 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2021.100900

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