Handbook on Ocean Politics & Law (Chap. 7 "Deep-Seabed Mining")
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by James C. F. Wang.
570 pgs.
This comprehensive handbook provides background information and analysis on the full range of contemporary ocean use issues. Coverage includes the development of ocean law, the evolving uses of oceans, data on living and non-living ocean resources, the environmental impact of pollution, and...
This comprehensive handbook provides background information and analysis on the full range of contemporary ocean use issues. Coverage includes the development of ocean law, the evolving uses of oceans, data on living and non-living ocean resources, the environmental impact of pollution, and competing national claims over ocean exploration. The volume also summarizes the must current research available on the uses of oceans, incorporates the salient portions of the 1982 Law of the Sea Convention in the topical surveys and analyses presented, and discusses all of the other major international conventions that have dealt with global ocean or marine affairs.
The Last Wild Place, in E
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by Kieran Mulvaney.
6 pgs.
...the logical next step when resources elsewhere are in decline or otherwise hard to come by - prompted the move toward a mining convention. "The Antarctic has suffered a...