Governing The Antarctic

Author : Olav Schram Stokke,Davor Vidas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Law
ISBN : 0521572371

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Governing the Antarctic by Olav Schram Stokke,Davor Vidas Pdf

After thirty-five years the regime based on the Antarctic Treaty is more vigorous than ever. Here leading scholars of international law and international relations examine the effectiveness and legitimacy of this regime by asking two questions: are current changes affecting the regime's ability to cope with major problems in the region, and how do those changes affect its standing amongst parties to the Treaty and in the wider international community? Individual chapters deal with the Antarctic regimes for marine living resources, mineral activities, environmental protection, and tourism. Throughout, a keen eye is kept on how those components interact and reinforce each other. This analysis is supported by in-depth studies of compatibility and tension between the Antarctic Treaty System and the international community at large. It also draws upon case studies of how domestic concerns and decision-making in four selected countries affect international co-operation in the Antarctic.

Author : Geir Hønneland
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030725853

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Blue Governance in the Arctic and Antarctic by Geir Hønneland Pdf

This book discusses to what extent the precautionary approach to fisheries management is reflected in the MSC Fisheries Standard and in the certification of four clusters of fisheries in polar waters. Certification according to private sustainability standards (ecolabelling) has become an important addition to public fisheries management in recent years. The major global ecolabel in terms of comprehensiveness and coverage is the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) Fisheries Standard. Becoming and remaining certified requires continuous behavioural adaptation from fisheries through a fine-meshed system of improvement conditions attached to certification. Focus is on how certification has influenced fisher behaviour and state practice. In the Southern Ocean krill and toothfish fisheries, MSC certification has generated new scientific knowledge about the stocks. In the Barents Sea cod and haddock fisheries, fishing companies have voluntarily adapted their behaviour to reduce the fishery’s impacts on endangered, threatened and protected species and bottom habitats. In the local lumpfish fisheries in Greenland, Iceland and Norway, measures have been introduced to reduce the effects on seabirds and marine mammals. In the Northeast Atlantic mackerel fisheries, impacts have been more modest. Private certification is no panacea, but it seems to have found a niche as a supplement to national legislation and international agreements.

Author : National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Commission on Geosciences, Environment and Resources,Polar Research Board,Committee on Antarctic Policy and Science
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1993-02-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309049474

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Science and Stewardship in the Antarctic by National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Commission on Geosciences, Environment and Resources,Polar Research Board,Committee on Antarctic Policy and Science Pdf

With the negotiation of the International Protocol on Environmental Protection in 1991, those nations conducting scientific research programs in Antarctica face new challenges for stewardship of the southern continent and protection of its environment. Science and Stewardship in the Antarctic examines how the implementation of the 1991 agreement in the United States can be done in such a way to ensure the compatibility of scientific and environmental protection goals in this global laboratory. The book also addresses the potential for the new requirements both to benefit and harm research activities in Antarctica.

Author : Peter J. Beck
Publisher : IBRU
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Antarctic Treaty system
ISBN : 9781897643051

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Who Owns Antarctica? by Peter J. Beck Pdf

Author : Nengye Liu,Cassandra M. Brooks,Tianbao Qin
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781788977432

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Governing Marine Living Resources in the Polar Regions by Nengye Liu,Cassandra M. Brooks,Tianbao Qin Pdf

Bringing together leading scholars from across a diverse range of disciplines, this unique book examines a key question: How can we best conserve marine living resources in the polar regions, where climate change effects and human activities are particularly pressing?

Author : Yelena Yermakova
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1420229653

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Governing Antarctica by Yelena Yermakova Pdf

Author : Klaus Dodds
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191633515

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The Antarctic: A Very Short Introduction by Klaus Dodds Pdf

The Antarctic is one the most hostile natural environments in the world. It is an extraordinary physical space, which changes significantly in shape and size with the passing of the seasons. Politically, it is unique as it contains one of the few areas of continental space not claimed by any nation-state. Scientifically, the continental ice sheet has provided us with vital evidence about the Earth's past climate. In this Very Short Introduction, Klaus Dodds provides a modern account of Antarctica, highlighting the main issues facing the continent today. Looking at how the Antarctic has been explored and represented in the last hundred years, Dodds considers the main exploratory and scientific achievements of the region. He explains how processes such as globalization mean that the Antarctic is increasingly involved in a wider circuit of ideas, goods, people, trade, and governance - all of which have an impact on the future of the region. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Author : Jessica O'Reilly
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781501708350

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The Technocratic Antarctic by Jessica O'Reilly Pdf

The Technocratic Antarctic is an ethnographic account of the scientists and policymakers who work on Antarctica. In a place with no indigenous people, Antarctic scientists and policymakers use expertise as their primary model of governance. Scientific research and policymaking are practices that inform each other, and the Antarctic environment—with its striking beauty, dramatic human and animal lives, and specter of global climate change—not only informs science and policy but also lends Antarctic environmentalism a particularly technocratic patina. Jessica O’Reilly conducted most of her research for this book in New Zealand, home of the "Antarctic Gateway" city of Christchurch, and on an expedition to Windless Bight, Antarctica, with the New Zealand Antarctic Program. O’Reilly also follows the journeys Antarctic scientists and policymakers take to temporarily "Antarctic" places such as science conferences, policy workshops, and the international Antarctic Treaty meetings in Scotland, Australia, and India. Competing claims of nationalism, scientific disciplines, field experiences, and personal relationships among Antarctic environmental managers disrupt the idea of a utopian epistemic community. O’Reilly focuses on what emerges in Antarctica among the complicated and hybrid forms of science, sociality, politics, and national membership found there. The Technocratic Antarctic unfolds the historical, political, and moral contexts that shape experiences of and decisions about the Antarctic environment.

Author : Christopher C. Joyner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:39015045691311

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Governing the Frozen Commons by Christopher C. Joyner Pdf

This volume examines the Antarctic Treaty System as a complex legal regime for managing resource activities in the Antarctic and assesses what innovative legal arrangements might be needed to regulate future political and economic developments there.

Author : Andrew Jackson
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030784058

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Who Saved Antarctica? by Andrew Jackson Pdf

This book provides a diplomatic history of a turning point in Antarctic governance: the 1991 adoption of comprehensive environmental protection obligations for an entire continent, which prohibited mining. Solving the mining issue became a symbol of finding diplomatic consensus. The book combines historiographic concepts of contingency, conjuncture and accidental events with theories of structural, entrepreneurial and intellectual leadership. Drawing on archival documents, it shows that Antarctic governance is more adaptive than some imagine, and policy success depends on the interplay of normative practices, serendipitous events, public engagement and influential players able to exploit those circumstances. Ultimately, the events revealed in this book show that the protection of the Antarctic Treaty itself remains as important as protecting the Antarctic environment.

Author : James Gustave Speth
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780300205169

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Diplomacy on Ice by James Gustave Speth Pdf

"As the race for resources in distant parts of the planet gathers momentum, most discussion has centered on the potential for conflict, environmental destruction, and upheaval from climate change. This important book shifts the conversation about the Arctic and Antarctic from conflict to cooperation. A multidisciplinary roster of experts provides fresh views of the polar regions, focusing on diplomacy and the potential for cooperative international decision-making. Collectively the contributors illustrate the breadth of issues that complicate governance in the Arctic and Antarctic, as well as parallels and differences between the politics of the two poles"--

Author : Christopher C. Joyner
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1992-09-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780792318231

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Antarctica and the Law of the Sea by Christopher C. Joyner Pdf

This survey of maritime law as it applies to the Antarctic continent and surrounding seas, includes biogeography, sovereignty, offshore jurisdiction, the continental shelf, environmental protection and conservation, and the legal status of ice shelves, sea ice, icebergs and ice islands.

Author : Klaus Dodds,Alan D. Hemmings,Peder Roberts
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781784717681

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Handbook on the Politics of Antarctica by Klaus Dodds,Alan D. Hemmings,Peder Roberts Pdf

The Antarctic and Southern Ocean are hotspots for contemporary endeavours to oversee 'the last frontier' of the Earth. The Handbook on the Politics of Antarctica offers a wide-ranging and comprehensive overview of the governance, geopolitics, international law, cultural studies and history of the region. Four thematic sections take readers from the earliest human encounters to contemporary resource exploitation and climate change. Written by leading experts, the Handbook brings together the very best interdisciplinary social science and humanities scholarship on the Antarctic and Southern Ocean.

Author : Alan D. Hemmings,Donald R. Rothwell,Karen N. Scott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781136324758

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Antarctic Security in the Twenty-First Century by Alan D. Hemmings,Donald R. Rothwell,Karen N. Scott Pdf

The Antarctic Treaty (1959) was adopted for the purpose of bringing peace and stability to Antarctica and to facilitate cooperation in scientific research conducted on and around the continent. It has now been over fifty years since the signing of the treaty, nevertheless security continues to drive and shape the laws and policy regime which governs the region. Antarctic Security in the Twenty-First Century: Legal and Policy Perspectives assess Antarctic security from multiple legal and policy perspectives. This book reviews the existing security construct in Antarctica, critically assesses its status in the early part of the Twenty-First century and considers how Antarctic security may be viewed in both the immediate and distant future. The book assesses emerging new security threats, including the impact of climate change and the issues arising from increased human traffic to Antarctica by scientists, tourists, and mariners. The authors call into question whether the existing Antarctic security construct framed around the Antarctic Treaty remains viable, or whether new Antarctic paradigms are necessary for the future governance of the region. The contributions to this volume engage with a security discourse which has expanded beyond the traditional military domain to include notions of security from the perspective of economics, the environment and bio-security. This book provides a contemporary and innovative approach to Antarctic issues which will be of interest to scholars of international law, international relations, security studies and political science as well as policy makers, lawyers and government officials with an interest in the region.

Author : Tim Stephens,David L VanderZwaag
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781781955451

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Polar Oceans Governance in an Era of Environmental Change by Tim Stephens,David L VanderZwaag Pdf

This timely book provides a cutting-edge assessment of how the dynamic ocean regions at the highest latitudes on Earth are being managed in an era of unprecedented environmental change. The Arctic and Southern Oceans are experiencing transformative env