Antarctic Cities. Volume 2, Urban Sustainability Profiles ...

• Main Authors: Salazar, Juan Francisco, James, Paul, Leane, Elizabeth, Magee, Liam, Martín Valdéz, Sebastian
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: Western Sydney University 2021
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.26183/4cr5-n316; https://researchdirect.westernsydney.edu.au/islandora/object/uws:70211

The sustainability profiles of the participating cities were developed by the Antarctic Cities project based on the premise that the cities needed to map and understand their own sustainability in order to understand their capabilities for custodianship. They needed to understand their own strengths and weaknesses — ecologically, economically, politically and culturally — in order to reach out to Antarctica without a false sense of what was possible and without romanticizing what custodianship entails. Put in more general terms, care beyond one’s borders is strengthened by a culture, politics and economy of local care. The profiles are one means of providing an evidence-based understanding of where that care is best directed. ...