Emerging Issues of Australian Antarctic Tourism Legal and Policy Directions

• Main Authors: Johnson, MP, Kriwoken, LK
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: Federation Press 2007
• Subjects: Studies in Human Society; Policy and Administration; Policy and Administration not elsewhere classified; Antarctic; Australian Antarctic Territory; Ela; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://ecite.utas.edu.au/48480

Antarctic tourism activity presents legal and policy challenges for the Antarctic Treaty System (ATS). Bastmeijer (2003) argues that the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty 1991 (Madrid Protocol) and domestic legislation do not effectively question the legitimacy of the many...