British whaling policy in the 1970s
The United Kingdom conducted pelagic whaling in the Antarctic Ocean until the mid-1960s and took a moderate position in the International Whaling Commission (IWC) after its establishment in 1946. The UK’s stance changed in 1972, when the government supported a 10-year moratorium on commercial whalin...
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ftkyotouniv:oai:repository.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp:2433/110020 2023-05-15T13:50:15+02:00 British whaling policy in the 1970s Sanada, Yasuhiro 真田, 康弘 2009-12 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/2433/110020 eng eng Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University 1349872X http://hdl.handle.net/2433/110020 SANSAI : An Environmental Journal for the Global Community 4 25 42 International Whaling Commission the United Kingdom whaling Friends of the Earth Journal Article 2009 ftkyotouniv 2017-10-28T22:20:26Z The United Kingdom conducted pelagic whaling in the Antarctic Ocean until the mid-1960s and took a moderate position in the International Whaling Commission (IWC) after its establishment in 1946. The UK’s stance changed in 1972, when the government supported a 10-year moratorium on commercial whaling at the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment as well as the IWC. The UK has consistently backed moratorium motions since 1972 and is now a leading anti-whaling nation, insisting that no kind of commercial whaling should be permitted. The purpose of this paper is to examine why the UK altered its policy on whaling and whale conservation in the 1970s and to shed light on the decision-making processes that affected government whaling policy in this pivotal period. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Antarctic Ocean Kyoto University Research Information Repository (KURENAI) Antarctic The Antarctic Antarctic Ocean |
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The United Kingdom conducted pelagic whaling in the Antarctic Ocean until the mid-1960s and took a moderate position in the International Whaling Commission (IWC) after its establishment in 1946. The UK’s stance changed in 1972, when the government supported a 10-year moratorium on commercial whaling at the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment as well as the IWC. The UK has consistently backed moratorium motions since 1972 and is now a leading anti-whaling nation, insisting that no kind of commercial whaling should be permitted. The purpose of this paper is to examine why the UK altered its policy on whaling and whale conservation in the 1970s and to shed light on the decision-making processes that affected government whaling policy in this pivotal period. |
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