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DOI	10.1016/j.marpol.2020.104122
	Hydrate occurrence in Europe: Risks, rewards, and legal frameworks
	Partain, Roy Andrew; Yiallourides, Constantinos
通讯作者	Partain, RA (corresponding author), Univ Aberdeen, Sch Law, Aberdeen, Scotland.
来源期刊	MARINE POLICY
ISSN	0308-597X
EISSN	1872-9460
出版年	2020
卷号	121
英文摘要	In January of this year (2020), a major scientific study ('the Minshull report') announced that gas hydrate reservoirs were found in many offshore areas across Europe. The European Commission is now considering a policy view to commercialize the development and extraction of methane gas from European offshore areas. Affirmation from the European Commission that offshore methane hydrates are too useful and too valuable to forego development could initiate a global response to adopt offshore methane hydrates as a new source of natural gas for heating, for electrical power supplies, and for potential new revenues. The upside? The potential rewards from offshore methane hydrates are multi-fold. Coastal states are surrounded in methane hydrate resources that if responsibly developed could enable vast amounts of methane (natural gas) to be produced for decades or centuries beyond the timelines of conventional natural gas assets. There are also massive volumes of fresh water trapped in hydrates that could aid in fighting droughts and desertification. The downside? There are novel foreseeable risks that might result from those commercial methane hydrate activities. The climate change risks and geo-physical hazards from offshore methane hydrates are quite distinct from both conventional and unconventional hydrocarbons. There are new challenges to achieving safety and sustainability. In review, this paper both welcomes the discovery and confirmation of offshore methane hydrates in European waters and also raises concerns that more research is required on the optimal policy strategies for the known and foreseeable risks to best enable safe and sustainable policy choices.
类型	Article
语种	英语
开放获取类型	Green Published
收录类别	SSCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000595873000006
WOS类目	Environmental Studies ; International Relations
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; International Relations
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/349072
作者单位	[Partain, Roy Andrew] Univ Aberdeen, Sch Law, Aberdeen, Scotland; [Yiallourides, Constantinos] Univ Aberdeen, Sch Law, British Inst Int & Comparat Law, Aberdeen, Scotland
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Partain, Roy Andrew,Yiallourides, Constantinos. Hydrate occurrence in Europe: Risks, rewards, and legal frameworks[J],2020,121.
APA	Partain, Roy Andrew,&Yiallourides, Constantinos.(2020).Hydrate occurrence in Europe: Risks, rewards, and legal frameworks.MARINE POLICY,121.
MLA	Partain, Roy Andrew,et al."Hydrate occurrence in Europe: Risks, rewards, and legal frameworks".MARINE POLICY 121(2020).