N° 85 - January 2017 - Undersea minerals: Protecting the ecosystems, mining the resources
Issue editor: François JACQ,
Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER)
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Foreword: François JACQ,
Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER)
1 - Marine mineral resources and their economic context
Mining on the land, mineral resources on the seabed… and our hunger for raw materials
François Bersani,
engineer from École des Mine
Hydrothermal mineralization: Scientific issues related to prospecting and exploration
Yves Fouquet,
researcher at Institut Français de Recherche pour l’Exploitation de la Mer, head of a research program on oceanic mineralization deposits
Technology developments in the exploration and evaluation of deep-sea mineral resources
Sven Petersen,
Mark Hannington
and
Anne Krätschell,
GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (Germany)
The economic stakes: What is the potential of marine mineral resources?
Christophe-Alexandre Paillard,
head of the department on economic intelligence and the protection of information in the Service of Defense, Sécurity and Economic Intelligence, Ministry of the Environment, Energy and Sea
The challenges of deep-sea mining: Global and European regulatory frameworks
Gwenole Cozigou,
Industrial Transformation and Advanced Value Chains, European Commission
2 - A daunting task: Protecting ecosystems
The environmental impact of mining the seabed: State of knowledge
Pierre Marie Sarradin,
Institut Français de Recherche pour l’Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER);
Jozée Sarrazin,
IFREMER;
and
François H. Lallier,
professor, CNRS
Mineral resources, environmental risks and strategies for managing biodiversity: Zones with nodules in the northeastern Pacific
Lénaïck Menot,
researcher on underwater ecology in the Deep Environment Laboratory, Institut Français de Recherche pour l’Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER)
“Why not the abysses?” IFREMER’s research program for improving knowledge on deep-sea biodiversity
Sophie Arnaud-Haond,
environmental scientist at Institut Français de Recherche pour l’Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER),
and
Florence Pradillon,
researcher in the Deep Environment Laboratory, (IFREMER)
Addressing the Financial Consequences of the Unknown Environmental Impact of Deep-Sea Mining
Sarah P. Hoyt,
Independent Consultant,
Linwood H. Pendleton,
Univ. Brest, Ifremer, CNRS, UMR 6308, AMURE, IUEM,
Olivier Thébaud,
Ifremer, Univ. Brest, CNRS, UMR 6308, AMURE, Unité d'Économie Maritime, IUEM
and
Cindy Lee Van Dover,
Duke University, Nicholas School of the Environment, Beaufort, USA
Impact assessments of mining the seabed: A necessary but still difficult step
Jean-Damien Bergeron,
Ronan Launay
and
Jean-Marc Sornin,
CREOCEAN
3 - A regulatory framework and tools for sustainable mining
International legislation provides a framework regulating the access to marine mineral resources
Par Élie JARMACHE
Elie Jarmache,
technical advisor at the Secrétariat Général de la Mer, member of the legal and technical committee of the International Seabed Authority
EXTRAPLAC: Questions about the French continental shelf
Walter R. Roest,
Institut Français de Recherche pour l’Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER), member of the committee on the bounds of the continental shelf
The Secretary-General of the Sea: Active in deep-sea research policy
Vincent Bouvier,
Secrétaire Général de la Mer
What are French industry’s strong points for deep-sea mining?
Francis Vallat,
founding president of Cluster Maritime Français and president of the association SOS Méditerranée
A state-of-art mining of undersea minerals
Julien Denègre,
coordinator of commercial development at Forsys Subsea
Miscellany
France's energy balance sheet for 2015
Sous-direction des Statistiques de l’Énergie, CGDD, MEDDE
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