Diplomacy on Ice: Energy and the Environment in the Arctic and Antarctic
Environmental protection
International law
Antarctic
Sustainability
Ecology
Climate change, economic pressures, and shifting geopolitical balances promise unprecedented challenges to the preservation of polar environments and the sustainability of Arctic communities. This volume brings together experts in the Arctic and Antarctic to approach questions about polar governance, environmental protection, and human rights from new perspectives.
Pincus, Rebecca (ed.) and Ali, Saleem H. (ed.).
J03-015
New Haven, USA : Yale University Press.
2015
Speth, James Gustave
M02842
291 p.
English
text
ISBN 9780300205169
The technocratic Antarctic : an ethnography of scientific expertise and environmental governance
Scientific research
Environmental management
Policy planning
Antarctic Treaty system
International organisations
Antarctica
O'Reilly, Jessica
J05-074
Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press
2017
M02562
Purchase: 2017-12-12, Bluntisham Books, £19.-
Series: Expertise : Cultures and technologies of knowledge.
207 p
English
text
ISBN 9780801456923
Science on the ice : the United States Antarctic Program.
Third edition.
Scientific research
Government policy
Research programmes
Antarctic Treaty system
United States
This publication has grown organically since its first edition, titled "The environments of McMurdo Sound".
Herried, Brad, Cartographer, GIS Developer
J05-US-011
Minneapolis (MN), United States Antarctic Program, National Science Foundation; Polar Geospatial Center, University of Minnesota.
2017
Isern, Alexandra, Program Director
M02539
The first edition is available at the library in J05-US-009.
70 p.
English
text
The changing Arctic environment : the Arctic Messenger.
Environmental monitoring
Environmental impact analysis
Climatic change
Pollution
Arctic regions
Contents: 1. Personal beginnings -- Part I. The Changing Arctic -- 2. The Arctic Messenger -- Part II. Working Together -- 3. The Arctic Messenger gains a voice : the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme -- Part III. What Is the Present State of Knowledge? -- 4. Radioactivity -- 5. Heroic efforts -- 6. Acidification and Arctic haze -- 7. Stratospheric ozone depletion -- 8. Persistent organic pollutants and heavy metals (including mercury) -- 9. Conducting marine science in the Arctic -- 10. Climate change in the Arctic -- Part IV. What Does This All Mean? -- 11. Thoughts on education, the training of Arctic scientists and Arctic research -- 12. The long and short of it : has the Arctic message been noticed? -- 13. Epilogue: keeping the Rovaniemi flame alive.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-349) and index.
Stone, David P.
J02-012
New York, NY : Cambridge University Press,
2015
M02521
Purchase: 2017-07-19; Amazon; U$S 49,60
xiv, 360 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
English
Text
ISBN 9781107094413
The fate of antarctic penguins when earth's tropospheric temperature reaches 2°C above pre-industrial levels.
David Ainley, Joellen Russell and Stephanie Jenouvrier, a collaboration with World Wildlife Fund.
Climate change
Fauna
Antarctica
Ainley, David.
Russell, Joellen.
Jenouvrier, Stephanie.
[s.l.] : WWF International,
2008
PDF file: 2,38 MB
Macquarie Island in danger.
A report prepared for WWF-Australia by Dr. Jenny Scott, Prof. Jamie Kirkpatrick and Mr. Tom Baxter.
Environmental protection
Conservation of species
Macquarie Island, Australia
Sub-Antarctic Islands
Scott, Jenny.
Kirkpatrick, Jamie.
Baxter, Tom.
Sydney, AU : WWF-Australia,
2007
PDF file: 5,27 MB
ISBN 1921031182
Climate change 2007: Synthesis Report : Summary for Policymakers.
Climatic change
Climatology
Environmental policy
This summary, approved in detail at IPCC Plenary XXVII (Valencia, Spain, 12-17 November 2007), represents the formally agreed statement of the IPCC concerning key findings and uncertainties contained in the Working Group contributions to the Fourth Assessment Report.
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Valencia, SP : IPCC,
2007
PDF file: 1.92 MB, 22 p.
Environmental domains of Antarctica : version 2.0 Final report.
Environmental management
Protected areas
Land use classification
Antarctica
Prepared for: Antarctica New Zealand, Department of Conservation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Ministry for the Environment.
Morgan, Fraser.
Parker, Gary.
Briggs, Craig.
Price, Robbie.
Keys, Harry.
Lincoln, NZ : Landcare Research,
2007
PDF file: 3 MB, 89 p.
The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty : a ten-year review.
Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty (1991)
Antarctic Treaty system
Environmental policy instrument
Environmental law
Antarctica
Vidas, Davor.
London : Earthscan Publications,
2002
Olav Schram Stokke and Oystein B. Thommessen (eds.). Yearbook of International Co-operation on Environment and Development 2002/2003, pp. 51-60.
000198
PDF file: 134 KB
Comunidad Internacional y Cambio Climático Global : a propósito de nuevas tendencias y escenarios /
Vanesa Carnero Contentti.
Climatic change
Environmental management
Sustainable development
International cooperation
International law
Carnero Contentti, Vanesa.
Buenos Aires : Centro Argentino de Estudios Internacionales (CAEI),
2007
000191
PDF file: 632 KB