Leadership in politics and science within the Antarctic Treaty
For over 50 years the Antarctic has been governed through the Antarctic Treaty, an international agreement now between 49 nations of whom 28 Consultative Parties (CPs) undertake the management role. Ostensibly, these Parties have qualified for their position on scientific grounds, though diplomacy a...
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fttriple:oai:gotriple.eu:oai:doaj.org/article:7259a54fb2c2487584f318c9e0171856 2023-05-15T14:02:15+02:00 Leadership in politics and science within the Antarctic Treaty John R. Dudeney David W.H. Walton 2012-04-01 https://doi.org/10.3402/polar.v31i0.11075 https://doaj.org/article/7259a54fb2c2487584f318c9e0171856 en eng Norwegian Polar Institute doi:10.3402/polar.v31i0.11075 0800-0395 1751-8369 https://doaj.org/article/7259a54fb2c2487584f318c9e0171856 undefined Polar Research, Vol 31, Iss 0, Pp 1-9 (2012) Governance claimant states Antarctic policy scientific publications geo scipo Journal Article https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_6501/ 2012 fttriple https://doi.org/10.3402/polar.v31i0.11075 2023-01-22T19:27:58Z For over 50 years the Antarctic has been governed through the Antarctic Treaty, an international agreement now between 49 nations of whom 28 Consultative Parties (CPs) undertake the management role. Ostensibly, these Parties have qualified for their position on scientific grounds, though diplomacy also plays a major role. This paper uses counts of policy papers and science publications to assess the political and scientific outputs of all CPs over the last 18 years. We show that a subset of the original 12 Treaty signatories, consisting of the seven claimant nations, the USA and Russia, not only set the political agenda for the continent but also provide most of the science, with those CPs producing the most science generally having the greatest political influence. None of the later signatories to the Treaty appear to play a major role in managing Antarctica compared with this group, with half of all CPs collectively producing only 7% of the policy papers. Although acceptance as a CP requires demonstration of a substantial scientific programme, the Treaty has no formal mechanism to review whether a CP continues to meet this criterion. As a first step to addressing this deficiency, we encourage the CPs collectively to resolve to hold regular international peer reviews of their individual science programmes and to make the results available to the other CPs. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica Polar Research Unknown Antarctic The Antarctic Polar Research 31 1 11075 |
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For over 50 years the Antarctic has been governed through the Antarctic Treaty, an international agreement now between 49 nations of whom 28 Consultative Parties (CPs) undertake the management role. Ostensibly, these Parties have qualified for their position on scientific grounds, though diplomacy also plays a major role. This paper uses counts of policy papers and science publications to assess the political and scientific outputs of all CPs over the last 18 years. We show that a subset of the original 12 Treaty signatories, consisting of the seven claimant nations, the USA and Russia, not only set the political agenda for the continent but also provide most of the science, with those CPs producing the most science generally having the greatest political influence. None of the later signatories to the Treaty appear to play a major role in managing Antarctica compared with this group, with half of all CPs collectively producing only 7% of the policy papers. Although acceptance as a CP requires demonstration of a substantial scientific programme, the Treaty has no formal mechanism to review whether a CP continues to meet this criterion. As a first step to addressing this deficiency, we encourage the CPs collectively to resolve to hold regular international peer reviews of their individual science programmes and to make the results available to the other CPs. |
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