scholarly journals Strategic environmental planning for deep seabed mining in the area

Marine Policy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 114 ◽  
pp. 103423 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aline Jaeckel
Author(s):  
Paola Parra O. ◽  
Marcos Quispe P. ◽  
Evelyn Paucara V. ◽  
Oscar Miranda Z. ◽  
Flor de María Gutierrez S.

Discussions approximately an environmental control method for deep seabed mining in the Area had been underway for some the years. Both states and scientists have known for such an environmental control method. In 2018, the International Seabed Authority has followed its first 5-year strategic plan, masking all elements of its mandate. This article examines the brand-new strategic plan integrates factors of an environmental control method and what is probably missing. It demonstrates that even as a few overlaps exist, there are numerous key gaps left via way of means of the modern strategic plan which will be stuffed via the way of means of an environmental control method. To operationalize those desires and objectives, development ought to be measurable; thus, objectives are set, reviews are assessed, and suitable responses are awarded. Many control equipment and toots are relevant for accomplishing environmental desires. To date, the ISA has taken into consideration marine spatial making plans in large part across the modern exploration settlement blocks. Other factors of environmental control, which include the necessities for baseline studies, effect assessment, post-effect tracking, and the remedy of dangerous consequences and extreme damage want to be carried out to assist well-described environmental desires and objectives. We advocate that this making plans be done for scales largethan man or woman blocks, through a Strategic Environmental Management Plan, to make certain sustainable use of ocean assets throughout the Area.


2021 ◽  
pp. 68-100
Author(s):  
Joanna Dingwall

Chapter 3 evaluates the vital role of the common heritage in the deep seabed mining context. It does so by considering the historical application of the common heritage concept to deep seabed mining, together with the broader role of the concept within international law, including in relation to outer space and other global commons. Chapter 3 addresses the UNCLOS III negotiations, and the emergence of the common heritage approach to deep seabed mining as part of the movement for a New International Economic Order (NIEO), as well as the modifications achieved by the Agreement on the Implementation of Part XI of UNCLOS. This chapter distils the common heritage into its modern-day components in the deep seabed mining context, namely: common management, prohibition of unilateral mining activities, benefit sharing, marine environmental protection and the achievement of a balance between communitarian and capitalist concerns. It also sets out the study’s framework of analysis.


2021 ◽  
pp. 269-274
Author(s):  
Joanna Dingwall

The conclusion addresses the findings reached throughout this study on the role of private corporate actors in the deep seabed mining regime under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) and the impact of this upon realisation of the common heritage of mankind. It notes that the ISA is facing significant challenges in devising a workable payment mechanism that will deliver tangible benefits to humanity, while also ensuring sufficient marine environmental protections. The regime’s achievement of the common heritage will be dependent on the regulatory regime of the International Seabed Authority (ISA) fulfilling its potential, and implementing a comprehensive Mining Code to govern the life cycle of deep seabed mining operations. The study concludes by finding that, on balance, the regime is developing in a manner that may render it capable of realising its common heritage goals of securing communitarian benefits to humanity, alongside market-focused objectives. It also concludes that corporate participation may assist in achievement of the common heritage, to the extent that it may provide the commercial means for deep seabed mining to commence.


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