The natural capital of the vast deep ocean is significant yet not well quantified. The ecosystem services provided by the deep sea provide a wide range of benefits to humanity. Proposed deep-sea economic activities such as fishing, deep-sea mining and bioprospecting therefore need to be assessed in this context. In addition to quantifying the economic benefits and costs of such activities on their own, their potential impact on the deep-sea natural capital also needs to be considered.
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Thiele, T. (2019). Deep-Sea Natural Capital: Putting Deep-Sea Economic Activities into an Environmental Context. In Environmental Issues of Deep-Sea Mining (pp. 507–518). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12696-4_18
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