Publication Date:
2022-05-25
Description:
Author Posting. © The Author(s), 2009. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of Elsevier B.V. for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Marine Policy 34 (2010): 728-732, doi:10.1016/j.marpol.2009.12.001.
Description:
The potential emergence of an ocean mining industry to exploit seafloor massive sulfides could
present opportunities for oceanographic science to facilitate seafloor mineral development in
ways that lessen environmental harms.
Description:
The authors are grateful for support from the Elisabeth and Henry Morss, Jr. Colloquia
Fund, the ChEss (Chemosynthetic Ecosystems) Project of the Census of Marine Life, InterRidge,
the Ridge 2000 Program of the National Science Foundation, and the authors’ institutions.
Keywords:
Ocean mining
;
Seafloor massive sulfides
;
Law of the sea
;
Economics
;
Environmental assessment
Repository Name:
Woods Hole Open Access Server
Type:
Preprint
Format:
application/pdf
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