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Political acceleration fuels the deep-sea gold rush: A call for science-informed global governance

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    School of Business, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China

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    School of Business, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China

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    Department of Sustainable Design Engineering, Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft 2628 CD, the Netherlands

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    State Key Laboratory for Ecological Security of Regions and Cities, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen 361021, China

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    University of Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing 100049, China

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  • Corresponding authors: changwang@csu.edu.cn (C.W.);  pwang@iue.ac.cn (P.W.)
  • Received Date:  November 04, 2025
    Accepted Date:  December 31, 2025
    Published Online:  January 05, 2026
The Innovation Geoscience  4(1),  https://doi.org/10.59717/j.xinn-geo.2026.100188  |  Cite this article
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    Song H., Wang C., Zhou S., et al. (2026). Political acceleration fuels the deep-sea gold rush: A call for science-informed global governance. The Innovation Geoscience 4:100188. https://doi.org/10.59717/j.xinn-geo.2026.100188
    Song H., Wang C., Zhou S., et al. (2026). Political acceleration fuels the deep-sea gold rush: A call for science-informed global governance. The Innovation Geoscience 4:100188. https://doi.org/10.59717/j.xinn-geo.2026.100188

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