Section 1 highlights the various environmental issues and discusses methods and approaches that can help in developing environmentally sustainable deep-sea mining. Section 2 details the results and outcomes of studies related to deep-sea mining and proposes methods for improved environmental impact assessment and monitoring. Section 3 discusses the need for proper data management techniques to develop systematic environmental impact standards and their application to deep-sea mining. Section 4 discusses the policies, approaches, practices and formats for developing environmental impact statements (EIS), environmental management plans (EMP) and mitigation measures, and national and international regulations for environmental management. Section 5 concludes the text by putting deep-sea economic activities into an environmental context and conducting techno-economic analyses of deep-sea mining and processing.  weiterlesen