Seabed Energy and Minerals: the International Legal Regime, Vol 3, Selected Documents
Article from: OGEL 1 (2003), in Book Reviews and Related Material
Editor E D Brown
Kluwer, The Hague, ISBN 90-411-1551-X, 2001, 455 pages. EUR 424.50, USD 365.00, GBP 262.00 Seabed mining was seen at the time of negotiations for the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) in 1977 as the wave of the future. There was much concern – mainly from developing country minerals producers – over both competition from the seabed and also over financial and technological dominance by developed countries of this prospective large business. This concern and much agitation has quietened down, mainly because deep seabed mining (as ...