Changing Trends in Antarctic Research

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Elzinga, Aant. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 1993.
• Series: Environment and Assessment, 3
• Subjects: Environment.; Political science.; Nature conservation.; Environment, general.; Nature Conservation.; Political Science.
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The core of this volume is a report from a symposium held at the University of Goteborg in the Fall of 1991. It deals with the interplay of science and politics and how^ such interplay affects research agendas. The focus is on polar research in Antarctica, a continent that has been much in the news...

Table of Contents:

• Historical and Contemporary Issues
• The Politics of Science in Polar Regions
• The Functional Role of Science in the Antarctic Treaty System
• The Role of Science in the Negotiations of the Antarctic Treaty- an Historical Review in the light of Recent Events
• Development of the Science/Politics Interface in the Antarctic Treaty and the Role of Scientific Advice
• Relevance Pressures and the Strategic Orientation of Research
• Is Science in Antarctica facing the Prospects of Increasing Bureaucratization?
• The Place of Regulation in Relationship to Science
• The Place of Science in an Environmentally Regulated Continent
• Orientational Shifts in Antarctic Research Agendas
• Focussing an Antarctic Research Program Ớ the Australian Experience
• Environmentally Driven Research Ớ is it Different?
• Geoscience Ớ Basic Research or Commercial Prospecting?
• Panel Discussion and Plenary
• Multi-disciplinary and Multi-country Perspectives
• Four Symposium Papers and a Review of SCAR
• The Science/Politics Interface in Development
• Science in an Environmentally Regulated Continent
• The Australian Antarctic Research Program in Focus
• Environmentally Driven or Environmentally Benign Antarctic Research?
• Some views on Antarctic Research.