Antarctica : the battle for the seventh continent /

"The Antarctic Treaty and related agreements--collectively known as the Antarctic Treaty System (ATS)--regulate the seventh continent, which is the only continent without a native human population. The main treaty within the ATS came into force in 1961 and suspended all territorial claims in An...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Abdel-Motaal, Doaa (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, 2016.
Temas:
Global environmental change.
Changement global (Environnement)
LAW > International.
Ecology.
Economic history.
Umweltrecht
Umweltveränderung
Klimaänderung
Treaties & other sources of international law.
Antarctica > Environmental conditions.
Antarctica > Economic conditions.
Antarctique > Conditions environnementales.
Antarctique > Conditions économiques.
Antarctica.
Antarktis
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover ; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; One: Introduction ; Two: The Case for Antarctica ; Three: Who Owns Antarctica? ; Four: The Conquest: Science and Minerals ; Five: An Antarctic Economy: Lessons from the Melting Arctic ; Six: Lines in the Ice: An Orderly Division of Antarctica ; Seven: Toward Greater Environmental Protection in Antarctica ; Eight: The World Is Not Waiting for 2048 ; Appendix 1: The Antarctic Treaty; Appendix 2: The Svalbard Treaty; Abbreviations; Bibliography; Index

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