#marine-spatial-planning
Issues, solutions, and case studies for marine-spatial-planning
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#00120Future seabed disturbance could re-mobilise buried waste
Dump sites overlap with emerging deep-sea uses — mining, bottom trawling, cable-laying. Disturbing degraded drums that are currently semi-contained could re-suspend and disperse their contents far more widely than passive decay would, turning a localised legacy into an active rel
Solutions 2
#00125Binding international prohibition on ocean dumping (London Convention/Protocol)
A treaty regime that first moratoriumed (1983) then permanently banned (from 1993) the dumping of radioactive waste at sea, shifting from case-by-case permits to blanket prohibition. It is the approach that actually stopped new drums entering the ocean.
#00124Authoritative dump-site registries embedded in marine spatial planning
Turn survey-derived dump-site boundaries and drum positions into an authoritative georeferenced layer that is mandatory input to seabed licensing, nautical charts, and marine spatial plans — so mining, trawling, and cable projects are routed around the zones by default.
Case studies 1
Contracting parties to the London Convention (administered via the IMO) · 1983–1993 · Global
The regulatory action that ended radioactive-waste sea dumping. Under the London Convention framework, parties adopted a voluntary moratorium on radioactive-waste dumping in 1983, which was converted into a permanent, l…
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