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This book offers an innovative approach to the recovery of areas degraded by international seabed mining, one that considers the feasibility of a standard that would allow mining in these areas in apparent antinomy with their other potential present and future uses. The book begins by identifying and explaining the legal norms that allow mining in these areas and the rights and obligations in mining exploitation concomitant to other uses of them, based on an analysis of mining operations’ duty of Recovery of Degraded Areas. It reveals an antinomy in international law, namely the compatibility of degraded areas and their various present and future uses with the mining of the international seabed. The freedom to mine these areas could destroy the least impacted biome on the planet and undermine the international law system represented by the Cultural Heritage of Mankind and the Third United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (“UNCLOS III”). Recovery of Degraded Areas is an obligation in mining and, as such, requires structural changes in the reading of UNCLOS III; recognizing international roles other than those related to sovereignty; projecting the law into the future; and rereading it in light of international environmental law and its instruments.

Ocean bottom --- Ocean mining --- Law and legislation --- International Seabed Authority

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"This book is valuable for those interested in tackling the complex legal issue of environmental protection in deep seabed mining by employing knowledge in fields of the law of the sea, international environmental law, international institutional law, and the law of State responsibility and international liability"--

Ocean mining --- Ocean bottom --- Environmental law, International. --- Liability for water pollution damages. --- Marine pollution --- Law and legislation --- Law and legislation. --- International Seabed Authority.

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"Poro-elastic theory can be widely applied to numerous engineering and scientific problems involving multi-phase media. This book for graduate students and researchers presents the basic mechanics of poro-elastic theory and explores in detail three particular applications: solute and contaminant transport in compacted clay liner systems with consolidation effects; groundwater table fluctuations in coastal aquifers resulting from tidal dynamics; and basic seabed mechanisms under dynamic loading, affecting marine infrastructures. Most existing books in the field focus on the mechanics of porous flow with applications in environmental science. Open Access from http://www.taylorfrancis.com"--

Multiphase flow. --- Porous materials --- Elastic analysis (Engineering) --- Transport theory. --- Ocean bottom. --- Soil-structure interaction. --- Offshore structures --- Fluid dynamics. --- Anchorage. --- Porous media --- Materials --- Porosity --- Anchorage --- Deep-sea moorings --- Flow, Multi-phase --- Flow, Multicomponent --- Flow, Multiphase --- Flow, Polyphase --- Multi-phase flow --- Multicomponent flow --- Polyphase flow --- Fluid dynamics --- Structure-soil interaction --- Soil dynamics --- Structural dynamics --- Bottom of the ocean --- Floor of the ocean --- Ocean floor --- Sea bed --- Sea floor --- Seafloor --- Seabed --- Subsoil of the ocean floor --- Submarine topography --- Boltzmann transport equation --- Transport phenomena --- Mathematical physics --- Particles (Nuclear physics) --- Radiation --- Statistical mechanics --- Analysis, Elastic --- Elastic analysis (Theory of structures) --- Structural analysis (Engineering)