Antarctic Cities. Volume 3, Antarctic Connectivity Index ...
The Antarctic Connectivity Index is an innovative and comprehensive instrument developed through a collaborative project involving a number of universities, agencies and cities. It provides an evidence-based means of showing the various levels of connectivity of cities as they engage with Antarctica...
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| Format: | Report |
| Language: | English |
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Western Sydney University
2021
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.26183/x5mz-qa16 https://researchdirect.westernsydney.edu.au/islandora/object/uws:70212 |
| Summary: | The Antarctic Connectivity Index is an innovative and comprehensive instrument developed through a collaborative project involving a number of universities, agencies and cities. It provides an evidence-based means of showing the various levels of connectivity of cities as they engage with Antarctica. This Antarctic Connectivity Index seeks to understand the level and nature of the connections of cities across the world to the Antarctic region. For the purposes of this index, the concept of ‘the Antarctic region’ includes Antarctica, the Southern Ocean and the sub-Antarctic region. The notion of ‘connectivity’ is used in the deeper historical meaning of the condition of being ‘joined together’ from the Latin conectere, to bind or establish a relationship—rather than the contemporary thinning out of the concept as the establishment of a mediated communications channel. This mean that the connectivity is understood across a range of domains—ecological, economic, political, and cultural—rather than limited to ... |
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