Open AccessNatural Resource Exploitation Could Reach New Depths
Author(s) -
Jenny Lunn
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
eos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/2017eo078297
Subject(s) - natural (archaeology) , natural resource , resource (disambiguation) , geology , environmental science , computer science , ecology , paleontology , biology , computer network
The deep seafloor could provide humans with supplies of valuable metals, but opinion is divided as to whether sustainable exploitation is possible and worth the ecological and economic risk.