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Environmental Issues of Deep-Sea Mining pp 275–313Cite as

New Techniques for Standardization of Environmental Impact Assessment

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The exploitation of deep-sea mineral resources has not yet begun. In order to realize it in the future, various issues need to be addressed. One such issue is establishing an appropriate environmental impact assessment (EIA) technique and a supporting environmental research method. At present, knowledge on the deep-sea environment is quite poor, and existing environmental research methods rely on various methods used in ocean science. However, the goals of oceanography do not always align with those for EIA. Furthermore, the purposes of EIA and scientific research are different. Considering economic performance and technical convenience, scientific research methods are not necessarily suitable for EIA. In this context, this paper introduces three new technologies of turbulence measurement, niche modeling, and genetic connectivity survey method and suggests approaches for their standardization for the purpose of EIA.

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This work was supported by Council for Science, Technology and Innovation (CSTI), Cross-ministerial Strategic Innovation Promotion Program (SIP), “Next-generation technology for ocean resources exploration” (Lead agency: JAMSTEC). We would like to thank the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (MEXT), Tohoku Ecosystem-Associated Marine Sciences (TEAMS), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas TAIGA (20109003), the Environment Research and Technology Development Fund (S-15 Predicting and Assessing Natural Capital and Ecosystem Services; S-9) of the Ministry of the Environment, and the Canon Foundation, for their partial support of this research. Additionally, we thank the members of each project for helping in data collection and supporting our survey. The authors would like to thank Hiromi Kayama Watanabe (JAMSTEC) who helped make this paper and also Fumiaki Sodeyama, Katsunori Fujikura, Yukiko Nagai, Masashi Tsuchiya (JAMSTEC), Sachiko Ono (Marine Works Japan, Ltd.), Hiroyuki Yokooka, and Tadayuki Kurokawa (IDEA Consultants, Inc.) for supporting the creation of data for habitat mapping.

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Furushima, Y., Yamakita, T., Miwa, T., Lindsay, D., Fukushima, T., Shirayama, Y. (2019). New Techniques for Standardization of Environmental Impact Assessment. In: Sharma, R. (eds) Environmental Issues of Deep-Sea Mining. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12696-4_11

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