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

PartA: Environmental issues.- Chapter1: Deep-sea mining and environment -  an introduction.- Chapter2: Environmental issues of deep-sea mining - a global perspective.- Chapter3: Environmental impacts of nodule, crust and sulphide mining - an overview.- Chapter4: Towards an ecosystem approach to environmental impact assessment for deep-sea mining.- Chapter5: Technologies for Safe and Sustainable Mining of Deep-Seabed Minerals.- PartB: Environmental impact assessment.- Chapter6: Assessment of deep-sea faunal communities - indicators of environmental impact.- Chapter7: Long term monitoring of environmental conditions of benthic impact experiment.- Chapter8: Metal mobility from hydrothermal sulfides into seawater during deep seafloor mining operations.- Chapter9: Mining in hydrothermal vent fields: predicting and minimizing impacts on ecosystems with the use of a mathematical modeling framework.- Chapter10: Ecotoxicological bioassay using marine algae for deep-sea mining.- PartC: Environmental data standardization and application.- Chapter11: New techniques for standardization of Environmental Impact Assessment.- Chapter12: Environmental factors for design and operation of deep-sea mining system - based on case studies.- PartD: Environmental management.- Chapter13: Environmental Policy for Deep Seabed Mining.- Chapter14: Ecosystem approach for management of deep-sea mining activities.- Chapter15: Improving environmental management practices in deep-sea mining.- Chapter16: The development of Environmental Impact Assessments for deep-sea mining.- Chapter17: Protection of the marine environment: The international and national regulation of deep seabed mining activities.- PartE: Economic Considerations.- Chapter 18: Deep sea natural capital: putting deep see economic activities into an environmental context.- Chapter19: Review of mining rates, environmental impacts, metal values and investments for polymetallic nodules mining.- Chapter20: Techno-economic perspective on processing of polymetallic ocean nodules