TY - JOUR
T1 - Numerical calculations of environmental impacts for deep sea mining activities
AU - Ma, Wenbin
AU - Schott, Dingena
AU - van Rhee, Cees
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - With the expected dramatic increase of mineral resources consumption, deep sea mining (DSM) was proposed as a method supplying the running of world economy by cooperating with or compensating for the terrestrial mining industry. However, its industrialization process is hindered by various reasons including the technological feasibility, economic profitability, and the DSM environmental impacts. The objective of this paper is to calculate the DSM environmental impacts based on a DSM environmental impact framework, which was selected through a systematic literature review in earlier work. The numerical calculations focus on the initial DSM disturbances and plume source, species disturbance, sediment plume and tailings. More importantly, the interconnection between the sediment plume and the species disturbances is also analysed particularly in this paper. The research quantifies the environmental impacts into a systematic framework, which could be helpful to assess the comprehensive environmental performances of a DSM activity and to promote the DSM industrialization process in the future.
AB - With the expected dramatic increase of mineral resources consumption, deep sea mining (DSM) was proposed as a method supplying the running of world economy by cooperating with or compensating for the terrestrial mining industry. However, its industrialization process is hindered by various reasons including the technological feasibility, economic profitability, and the DSM environmental impacts. The objective of this paper is to calculate the DSM environmental impacts based on a DSM environmental impact framework, which was selected through a systematic literature review in earlier work. The numerical calculations focus on the initial DSM disturbances and plume source, species disturbance, sediment plume and tailings. More importantly, the interconnection between the sediment plume and the species disturbances is also analysed particularly in this paper. The research quantifies the environmental impacts into a systematic framework, which could be helpful to assess the comprehensive environmental performances of a DSM activity and to promote the DSM industrialization process in the future.
KW - Deep sea mining
KW - Environmental impacts
KW - Interconnection
KW - Numerical calculation
KW - Sediment plume
KW - Species disturbance
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85055579405&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.10.267
DO - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.10.267
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85055579405
VL - 652
SP - 996
EP - 1012
JO - Science of the Total Environment
JF - Science of the Total Environment
SN - 0048-9697
ER -