The greening of Antarctica : assembling an international environment / Alessandro Antonello.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Antonello, Alessandro, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental policy--Antarctica--History--20th century.

Environmental policy.

Environmental management--Antarctica--History--20th century.

Environmental management.

Environmental protection--Antarctica--History--20th century.

Environmental protection.

Antarctica--International status.

Antarctica.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.

Summary:

'The Greening of Antarctica' investigates the development of an international regime of environmental protection and management for Antarctica between the signing of the Antarctic Treaty in 1959 and the signing of the Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources in 1980. During those two decades the parties to the Antarctic Treaty and an international community of scientists surrounding the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research reimagined Antarctica from being a cold, sterile and abiotic wilderness into a fragile and extensive regional ecosystem.

Contents:

Principles for "unprincipled men" : filling the household of Antarctic nature

Arguing with seals : the changing terrain of authority

Mining the deep south : exploitation, environmental impact, and contested futures

Seeing the Southern Ocean ecosystem : enlarging the Antarctic community

The plenitude of nature and sovereignty : boundaries of insiders and outsiders.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

Previously issued in print: 2019.

ISBN:

0-19-090719-3

0-19-090720-7

0-19-090718-5