The State and Future of Antarctic Environments in a Global Context Journal Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Antarctica and the Southern Ocean comprise a critical part of the Earth System. Their environments are better understood than ever before, yet the region remains poorly considered among international agreements to improve the state of the global environment. In part the situation owes to isolated regional regulation within the Antarctic Treaty System, and in part to the dated notion that Antarctica and the Southern Ocean are well conserved and relatively free from human impact. Here we review growth in knowledge of Antarctic environments and anthropogenic pressures on them. We show that the region's unusual diversity is facing substantial local and globally mediated anthropogenic pressure, on a par with environments globally. Antarctic environmental management and regulation is being challenged to keep pace with the change. Much benefit can be derived from consideration of Antarctic environmental and resource management in the context of global agreements.

publication date

  • October 17, 2019

has restriction

  • gold

Date in CU Experts

  • January 31, 2020 10:42 AM

Full Author List

  • Chown SL; Brooks CM

author count

  • 2

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International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 1543-5938

Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)

  • 1545-2050

Additional Document Info

start page

  • 1

end page

  • 30

volume

  • 44

issue

  • 1