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 …

With technological improvement such as ore exploration, robotics, and hydrodynamic lifting,
deep-sea mining has attracted more attention from governments, companies, and scientific …

Ecological catastrophe and global inequality are pressing, yet socio-ecologically destructive
natural resource extraction continues unabated. This special issue explores the strategies …

Progress towards deep sea mining (DSM) is driven by projected demands for metals and the
desire for economic development. DSM remains controversial, with some political leaders …

This paper offers a conceptual contribution to understanding ocean governance and the
management of spaces for the protection of marine biodiversity, organization of extractive …

The social license to operate (SLO) is an informal social contract that aims to bridge the gap
among the views of the most important stakeholders involved in mining activities. The …

In many of the Pacific Islands, local communities have long-held cultural and spiritual
attachments to the sea, in particular to species and specific marine areas, processes …

The extraction of minerals from the seabed of the deep oceans is of increasing interest to
investors, mining companies and some coastal states. To date, no commercial-scale deep …

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 …

The green economy and 'green growth'are not solutions to ecological and climate
catastrophe. The dominate trajectory of techno-industrial development has to be …