Antarctica and the World Park Approach: A Prescription for Change

The challenge of how best to manage the Antarctic is no small task. The fragility and unenforceability of the existing legal arrangement, coupled with the uncertainty of commercial mineral/hydrocarbon extraction and the need to protect an extremely fragile ecosystem, adds up to a series of dilemmas...

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Published in:The Journal of Environment & Development
Main Author: Cioppa, Thomas J.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publications 1993
Subjects:
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
Development
Geography, Planning and Development
Antarctic
The Antarctic
Antarc*
Antarctica
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/107049659300200210
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/107049659300200210
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Summary:The challenge of how best to manage the Antarctic is no small task. The fragility and unenforceability of the existing legal arrangement, coupled with the uncertainty of commercial mineral/hydrocarbon extraction and the need to protect an extremely fragile ecosystem, adds up to a series of dilemmas of immense proportion. This paper argues that the best solution for the continent is to make it into a World Park (or nature preserve). Viewing Antarctica as a common-pool resource, this paper outlines a specific set of normative elements that provide the foundation for a World Park Approach–an approach that offers equitable and environmentally sound solutions for both the continent and its suitors.

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