Environmental Issues of Deep-Sea Mining: Impacts, Consequences and Policy Perspectives

✍ Scribed by Rahul Sharma

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 576
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume discusses environmental issues associated with deep-sea mining, with an emphasis on potential impacts, their consequences and the policy perspectives. The book describes the methods and technologies to assess, monitor and mitigate mining impacts on marine environments, and also suggests various approaches for environmental management when conducting deep-sea mining. The volume brings together information and data for researchers, contractors, mining companies, regulators, and NGOs working in the field of deep-sea mining.

Section 1 highlights the various environmental issues and discusses methods and approaches that can help in developing environmentally sustainable deep-sea mining.

Section 2 details the results and outcomes of studies related to impact assessment of deep-sea mining, and proposes methods for monitoring.

Section 3 discusses the need and means for developing data standards and their application to deep-sea mining.

Section 4 discusses the policies, approaches, and practices related to deep-sea mining, suggests formats for developing environmental impact statements (EIS) and environmental management plans (EMP), and describes national and international regulations for environmental management.

Section 5 concludes the text by putting deep-sea economic activities into an environmental context and conducting techno-economic analyses of deep-sea mining and processing.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xvii
Front Matter ....Pages 1-1
Deep-Sea Mining and the Environment: An Introduction (Rahul Sharma, Samantha Smith)....Pages 3-22
Environmental Issues of Deep-Sea Mining: A Law of the Sea Perspective (Philomène A. Verlaan)....Pages 23-26
Environmental Impacts of Nodule, Crust and Sulphide Mining: An Overview (Philip P. E. Weaver, David Billett)....Pages 27-62
Towards an Ecosystem Approach to Environmental Impact Assessment for Deep-Sea Mining (Kate J. Thornborough, S. Kim Juniper, Samantha Smith, Lynn-Wei Wong)....Pages 63-94
Technologies for Safe and Sustainable Mining of Deep-Seabed Minerals (Sup Hong, Hyung-Woo Kim, Taekyung Yeu, Jong-Su Choi, Tae Hee Lee, Jong-Kap Lee)....Pages 95-143
Front Matter ....Pages 145-145
Assessment of Deep-Sea Faunal Communities-Indicators of Environmental Impact (Virginie Tilot)....Pages 147-189
Long-Term Monitoring of Environmental Conditions of Benthic Impact Experiment (Tomohiko Fukushima, Akira Tsune)....Pages 191-211
Metal Mobility from Hydrothermal Sulfides into Seawater During Deep Seafloor Mining Operations (Shigeshi Fuchida, Jun-ichiro Ishibashi, Tatsuo Nozaki, Yoshitaka Matsushita, Masanobu Kawachi, Hiroshi Koshikawa)....Pages 213-229
Mining in Hydrothermal Vent Fields: Predicting and Minimizing Impacts on Ecosystems with the Use of a Mathematical Modeling Framework (Kenta Suzuki, Katsuhiko Yoshida)....Pages 231-253
Ecotoxicological Bioassay Using Marine Algae for Deep-Sea Mining (Takahiro Yamagishi, Shuhei Ota, Haruyo Yamaguchi, Hiroshi Koshikawa, Norihisa Tatarazako, Hiroshi Yamamoto et al.)....Pages 255-271
Front Matter ....Pages 273-273
New Techniques for Standardization of Environmental Impact Assessment (Yasuo Furushima, Takehisa Yamakita, Tetsuya Miwa, Dhugal Lindsay, Tomohiko Fukushima, Yoshihisa Shirayama)....Pages 275-313
Environmental Factors for Design and Operation of Deep-Sea Mining System: Based on Case Studies (Rahul Sharma)....Pages 315-344
Front Matter ....Pages 345-345
Environmental Policy for Deep Seabed Mining (Michael W. Lodge, Kathleen Segerson, Dale Squires)....Pages 347-379
Ecosystem Approach for the Management of Deep-Sea Mining Activities (Roland Cormier)....Pages 381-402
Improving Environmental Management Practices in Deep-Sea Mining (D. S. M. Billett, D. O. B. Jones, P. P. E. Weaver)....Pages 403-446
The Development of Environmental Impact Assessments for Deep-Sea Mining (Malcolm R. Clark)....Pages 447-469
Protection of the Marine Environment: The International and National Regulation of Deep Seabed Mining Activities (Pradeep Singh, Julie Hunter)....Pages 471-503
Front Matter ....Pages 505-505
Deep-Sea Natural Capital: Putting Deep-Sea Economic Activities into an Environmental Context (Torsten Thiele)....Pages 507-518
Review of Mining Rates, Environmental Impacts, Metal Values, and Investments for Polymetallic Nodule Mining (Rahul Sharma, Farida Mustafina, Georgy Cherkashov)....Pages 519-546
Techno-economic Perspective on Processing of Polymetallic Ocean Nodules (Navin Mittal, Shashi Anand)....Pages 547-566
Back Matter ....Pages 567-577

✦ Subjects

Earth Sciences; Mineral Resources; Oceanography; Metallic Materials; Environmental Chemistry; Marine & Freshwater Sciences; Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences