The Future of Antarctica
Subtitle: exploitation versus preservation
By: edited by Grahame Cook.
Contributors: Cook, Grahame, 1947-
Publisher: Manchester University Press; Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Manchester; New York; New York, NY, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 172
Subjects: Antarctica -- Congresses.; Antarctica -- International status -- Congresses.
Other titles: Antarctic Treaty (1959). 1990.; Convention on the Regulation of Antarctic Mineral Resource Activities (1988). 1990.
Description: Proceedings of a conference whose multidisciplinary approach provide an overview of the debate about appropriate future environmental protection of Antarctica, particularly in relation to possible exploitation of its little known mineral resources.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Based on papers presented to a conference on 'Antarctica: an exploitable resource or too valuable to develop?' held at the Sir Robert Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London."
Contains texts of the Antarctic Treaty and the Antarctic Minerals Convention.