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商品描述
The book is an historical monograph on deep-sea mineral-related activities and attitudes towards deep-sea mining in the 20th Century which makes comparisons with the current situation in regard to those activities and attitudes. It reviews developments in the study of, and prospects and plans for mining deep-sea manganese nodules, cobalt-rich crusts, hydrothermal deposits, and phosphorites, and discusses associated environmental, technological, and economic issues. It is based on several sources. First, the author's experience gleaned from around 50 years of attending conferences on the subject (the most important of which was the annual Underwater Mining Institutes held from 1970 onwards at which much of the material in the book was first exposed), second, discussions with and advice from the author's colleagues on the subject, all attributed, and third, the published literature.
The target audiences are marine mining companies and their associates, marine environmentalists, UN and Government administrators responsible for seabed activities, undergraduate students of marine affairs and history, and interested lay persons. Unique features include the widespread sources used including unpublished conference proceedings and reports, personal insights gleaned from more than 50 years of working in the field, the author's publications dating from 1967-2022, and attributed personal communications from the author's colleagues.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
這本書是一部關於20世紀深海礦產相關活動及對深海採礦態度的歷史專著，並與當前這些活動及態度的情況進行比較。書中回顧了對深海錳結核、富鈷地殼、熱液沉積物和磷酸鹽的採礦研究的發展、前景和計劃，並討論了相關的環境、技術和經濟問題。這本書的內容基於幾個來源。首先，作者在約50年的會議參與經驗（其中最重要的是自1970年以來舉辦的年度水下採礦研究所，書中大部分材料首次在此曝光），其次，與作者的同事進行的討論和建議，所有內容均有註明，第三，已發表的文獻。
目標讀者包括海洋採礦公司及其相關人士、海洋環保人士、負責海床活動的聯合國和政府管理人員、海洋事務和歷史的本科生，以及有興趣的外行人士。本書的獨特之處在於使用了廣泛的來源，包括未發表的會議紀錄和報告、作者在該領域工作超過50年所獲得的個人見解、作者自1967年至2022年的出版物，以及來自作者同事的註明個人通信。
作者簡介
David Cronan has been working on and writing about deep-sea minerals since the mid-1960s. He completed a dissertation on them at Oxford University in 1964 and a Ph.D. on them at Imperial College, University of London, in 1967. He was awarded a D.Sc. by Durham University in 1986. From 1973, he was successively Lecturer, Reader, and Professor of Marine Geochemistry at Imperial College, working principally on manganese nodules and hydrothermal deposits. During this period, he supervised over 20 Ph.D. projects on deep-sea minerals, published more than 150 papers and 4 books, and attended more than 50 Conferences on them. Many of the last of these have provided material for the present book.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
大衛·克羅南（David Cronan）自1960年代中期以來一直在研究和撰寫有關深海礦物的內容。他於1964年在牛津大學完成了相關的論文，並於1967年在倫敦帝國學院獲得博士學位。他於1986年獲得達勒姆大學的科學博士學位（D.Sc.）。自1973年起，他先後擔任倫敦帝國學院的海洋地球化學講師、讀者和教授，主要研究錳結核和熱液沉積物。在此期間，他指導了超過20個有關深海礦物的博士項目，發表了超過150篇論文和4本書籍，並參加了超過50場相關的會議。其中許多會議的內容為本書提供了素材。
