The greening of antarctica : environment, science and diplomacy, 1959 - 1980
In the years following the signing of the Antarctic Treaty in 1959, Antarctic affairs developed in directions not intended or anticipated by its signatories. The Treaty was negotiated to defuse and resolve conflicts over territorial sovereignty and permit peaceful scientific access to the continent....
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ftanucanberra:oai:openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au:1885/157183 2024-01-14T10:00:51+01:00 The greening of antarctica : environment, science and diplomacy, 1959 - 1980 Antonello, Alessandro http://hdl.handle.net/1885/157183 https://doi.org/10.25911/5c90b7b779e02 https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/157183/4/b35684586-Antonello_A.pdf.jpg en_AU eng b35684586 http://hdl.handle.net/1885/157183 doi:10.25911/5c90b7b779e02 https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/157183/4/b35684586-Antonello_A.pdf.jpg Antarctica--International status Environmental law--Antarctica Thesis (PhD) ftanucanberra https://doi.org/10.25911/5c90b7b779e02 2023-12-15T09:35:30Z In the years following the signing of the Antarctic Treaty in 1959, Antarctic affairs developed in directions not intended or anticipated by its signatories. The Treaty was negotiated to defuse and resolve conflicts over territorial sovereignty and permit peaceful scientific access to the continent. Instead of simply fulfilling and maintaining their original intentions, the Treaty parties slowly built an environmental regime. Deliberately and incidentally, consciously and unconsciously, the parties added to their foundational yet tenuous charter agreements which delimited a growing Antarctic region as a space for environmental protection and management-always with science and scientists at its heart. They were wresting from the cold and sterile views of geophysics a new vision of a living, fragile and green Antarctic. How did this major conceptual shift happen? How did this environmental regime develop? How did Antarctica become green? This thesis explores the emergence of this environmental regime through changing and competing visions of the Antarctic in the 1960s and 1970s. In particular, it traces how those visions were negotiated in diplomatic and scientific settings and subsequently articulated and codified in Antarctica's international treaties and agreements. Following the Antarctic Treaty in 1959, the parties negotiated the Agreed Measures for the Conservation of Antarctic Fauna and Flora (AMCAFF) in 1964, the Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Seals (CCAS) in 1972, and the Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) of 1980; they also gave serious consideration to the issue of mineral resource exploitation in the 1970s. In analysing these negotiations and agreements, this thesis particularly pursues two major themes: the relationship of science and international politics, and of scientists and diplomats, and the relationship of environmental ideas and ideas about international order. This thesis argues that the Antarctic environmental regime developed because ... Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica Australian National University: ANU Digital Collections Antarctic The Antarctic |
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In the years following the signing of the Antarctic Treaty in 1959, Antarctic affairs developed in directions not intended or anticipated by its signatories. The Treaty was negotiated to defuse and resolve conflicts over territorial sovereignty and permit peaceful scientific access to the continent. Instead of simply fulfilling and maintaining their original intentions, the Treaty parties slowly built an environmental regime. Deliberately and incidentally, consciously and unconsciously, the parties added to their foundational yet tenuous charter agreements which delimited a growing Antarctic region as a space for environmental protection and management-always with science and scientists at its heart. They were wresting from the cold and sterile views of geophysics a new vision of a living, fragile and green Antarctic. How did this major conceptual shift happen? How did this environmental regime develop? How did Antarctica become green? This thesis explores the emergence of this environmental regime through changing and competing visions of the Antarctic in the 1960s and 1970s. In particular, it traces how those visions were negotiated in diplomatic and scientific settings and subsequently articulated and codified in Antarctica's international treaties and agreements. Following the Antarctic Treaty in 1959, the parties negotiated the Agreed Measures for the Conservation of Antarctic Fauna and Flora (AMCAFF) in 1964, the Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Seals (CCAS) in 1972, and the Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) of 1980; they also gave serious consideration to the issue of mineral resource exploitation in the 1970s. In analysing these negotiations and agreements, this thesis particularly pursues two major themes: the relationship of science and international politics, and of scientists and diplomats, and the relationship of environmental ideas and ideas about international order. This thesis argues that the Antarctic environmental regime developed because ... |
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