Charting the territory: Exploring stakeholder reactions to the prospect of seafloor exploration and mining in Australia

Mason, Claire M.; Paxton, Gillian; Parr, Joanna; Boughen, Naomi

doi:10.1016/j.marpol.2010.06.012

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“…Participants in this study seem to have responded either as if such asymmetry between economic damage to fishermen and irreversible ecological damages to an ecosystem did not exist, or that such damage was not significant, for example because damage is local and global presence of coral continues. This is an interesting result, which to some degree differs from attitudes to, for instance, GM foods in Europe (Nelson 2001), hazardous waste in the US (Hadden 1991) or marine mining in Australia (Mason et al 2010) where risk or uncertainty leads to precautionary attitudes. However, it must be noted that in addition to different methods being applied in the above studies, in our analysis the respondents are confronted with a trade-off that is not just related to an 'anonymous' beneficiary of an economic activity, but to fisheries.…”

Section: Irreversibility Precaution and Perceptions Of Harmmentioning

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“…To delve more deeply into the ways in which people understand and reason about policy decisions that have an impact on CWC, we therefore employed a deliberative approach Howarth 2002, Lo andSpash 2013). Although well-developed and integrated in decision support (Söderholm 2001, Morgan 1996, studies that apply deliberative techniques to the precautionary principle by involving citizens and stakeholders are still rare (see Mason et al (2010) for one example). We combined group discussions and individual questionnaire responses in three focus groups carried out in Norway, to explore attitudes towards CWC and related services and values.…”

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confidence: 99%

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A deliberative approach to valuation and precautionary management of cold water corals in Norway

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This paper explores management challenges in relation to human impacts on cold water corals (CWC) in Norway. CWC are a slow growing organism about which there is uncertainty regarding distribution and values. We discuss area closures to protect this environmental public good against destructive fishing practices. Focus groups were combined with questionnaires to inform precautionary management measures that can be used to protect known CWC as well as areas where CWC are thought to exist. The research finds that respondents believe CWC are valuable and should be protected, but that this requires information on their presence and importance. Furthermore, priorities for protecting CWC differed between group discussions and the questionnaire responses. Use-values, particularly habitat supporting fish production, dominated the focus group discussions, while non-use and intrinsic values were emphasised in the questionnaire responses. Respondents rejected the use of the precautionary measure of temporary closures to gain information on CWC presence. Reasons were costs to fishers, and the rejection of the premise that precautionary closures would prevent further damage. This study shows that both use-and non-use values are effective arguments motivating people to support policies for nature protection. However, they are not sufficient to motivate support for precautionary measures that would provide significant but uncertain benefits for known costs. To motivate support for precautionary policies, there is a need to communicate better the types of organisms, services and values that may be lost without protection.

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Section: Irreversibility Precaution and Perceptions Of Harmmentioning

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A deliberative approach to valuation and precautionary management of cold water corals in Norway

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“…Source: Mason et al, 2010 Trade-offs: Need for sound cost -benefit analysis Like any major investment project, a detailed economic cost-benefit analysis should be undertaken for proposed DSM mining projects following established methodologies, which are presented in WBI (2001) among others and considering issues specific to DSM-mining:…”

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Precautionary Management of Deep Sea Minerals

2017

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“…More recently, there have been attempts to compare the life cycle impacts of such resources with on-shore equivalents [51,52] which, while in the preliminary phases of the research, indicate that the expected impacts of mining itself (on the indicators of energy intensity and global warming potential) will be much higher than average terrestrial mines, and equivalent to some of the deepest mines onshore. The broader environmental impacts of such mineral deposits is still unclear, but it is apparent that social acceptance is likely to be a significant barrier even if the environmental impacts are shown to be low [53]. An important issue still to be understood is when or under what conditions these resources may become both economically feasible and environmentally beneficial in relation to conventional resources and secondary resources such as recycling.…”

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Critical Minerals and Energy–Impacts and Limitations of Moving to Unconventional Resources

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Abstract:The nexus of minerals and energy becomes ever more important as the economic growth and development of countries in the global South accelerates and the needs of new energy technologies expand, while at the same time various important minerals are declining in grade and available reserves from conventional mining. Unconventional resources in the form of deep ocean deposits and urban ores are being widely examined, although exploitation is still limited. This paper examines some of the implications of the transition towards cleaner energy futures in parallel with the shifts through conventional ore decline and the uptake of unconventional mineral resources. Three energy scenarios, each with three levels of uptake of renewable energy, are assessed for the potential of critical minerals to restrict growth under 12 alternative mineral supply patterns. Under steady material intensities per unit of capacity, the study indicates that selenium, indium and tellurium could be barriers in the expansion of thin-film photovoltaics, while neodymium and dysprosium may delay the propagation of wind power. For fuel cells, no restrictions are observed.

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Charting the territory: Exploring stakeholder reactions to the prospect of seafloor exploration and mining in Australia

Cited by 37 publications

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A deliberative approach to valuation and precautionary management of cold water corals in Norway

A deliberative approach to valuation and precautionary management of cold water corals in Norway

Precautionary Management of Deep Sea Minerals

Critical Minerals and Energy–Impacts and Limitations of Moving to Unconventional Resources

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