Commercial deep sea mining (DSM) stands at a threshold as both national and global legal
regimes seek to move beyond exploration of the seabed towards its exploitation. As an …

Despite the truism that less is known about the deep-sea than outer space, deep-sea mining
(DSM) is being promoted as the next frontier of resource extraction. In 2019, Nautilus …

In 2017 the Japanese government reported that its state-owned mining company had
successfully extracted zinc from the seabed off the coast of Okinawa. This piloting of …

In spite of a proliferation of academic and policy-oriented interest in deep sea mining (DSM),
this paper argues that two underlying questions remain underexplored. The first relates to …

As land-based mining industries face increasing complexities, eg, diminishing return on
investments, environmental degradation, and geopolitical tensions, governments are …

This chapter makes two provocative claims: first, that the turn to what is being called the
“blue humanities,” while certainly is driven by our environmental crisis and the ecological …

Over the past 15 years the International Seabed Authority (ISA), the United Nations agency
charged with regulating extraction from the ocean floor and seabed in areas beyond …

The world's first deep-sea mining (DSM) project has witnessed the commercial development
of plans to extract copper and gold from deposits 1600m deep in the waters of offshore …

National and international deliberations about whether the global mining industry should be
permitted to use the earth's seas as mine waste dumps are not decided on the basis of …

The seabed in areas beyond national jurisdiction is the common heritage of mankind (CHM),
as declared in the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. The CHM …