How the COVID-19 pandemic signaled the demise of Antarctic exceptionalism
This paper explores how the COVID-19 pandemic affected science and tourism activities and their governance in the Antarctic and Southern Ocean. The pandemic reduced the ability of Antarctic Treaty Parties to make decisions on policy issues and placed a considerable burden on researchers. Tourism was...
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craaas:10.1126/sciadv.adk4424 2024-06-09T07:40:54+00:00 How the COVID-19 pandemic signaled the demise of Antarctic exceptionalism Liggett, Daniela Frame, Bob Convey, Peter Hughes, Kevin A. 2024 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adk4424 https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/sciadv.adk4424 en eng American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science Advances volume 10, issue 9 ISSN 2375-2548 journal-article 2024 craaas https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adk4424 2024-05-16T12:55:57Z This paper explores how the COVID-19 pandemic affected science and tourism activities and their governance in the Antarctic and Southern Ocean. The pandemic reduced the ability of Antarctic Treaty Parties to make decisions on policy issues and placed a considerable burden on researchers. Tourism was effectively suspended during the 2020–2021 Antarctic season and heavily reduced in 2021–2022 but rebounded to record levels in 2022–2023. The pandemic stimulated reflection on practices to facilitate dialog, especially through online events. Opportunities arose to integrate innovations developed during the pandemic more permanently into Antarctic practices, in relation to open science, reducing operational greenhouse gas footprints and barriers of access to Antarctic research and facilitating data sharing. However, as well as the long-term impacts arising directly from the pandemic, an assemblage of major geopolitical drivers are also in play and, combined, these signal a considerable weakening of Antarctic exceptionalism in the early Anthropocene. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Southern Ocean AAAS Resource Center (American Association for the Advancement of Science) Antarctic Southern Ocean The Antarctic Science Advances 10 9 |
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This paper explores how the COVID-19 pandemic affected science and tourism activities and their governance in the Antarctic and Southern Ocean. The pandemic reduced the ability of Antarctic Treaty Parties to make decisions on policy issues and placed a considerable burden on researchers. Tourism was effectively suspended during the 2020–2021 Antarctic season and heavily reduced in 2021–2022 but rebounded to record levels in 2022–2023. The pandemic stimulated reflection on practices to facilitate dialog, especially through online events. Opportunities arose to integrate innovations developed during the pandemic more permanently into Antarctic practices, in relation to open science, reducing operational greenhouse gas footprints and barriers of access to Antarctic research and facilitating data sharing. However, as well as the long-term impacts arising directly from the pandemic, an assemblage of major geopolitical drivers are also in play and, combined, these signal a considerable weakening of Antarctic exceptionalism in the early Anthropocene. |
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How the COVID-19 pandemic signaled the demise of Antarctic exceptionalism |
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