Anthropocene Security Climate Change and the Southern Polar Region
Published: Mar 31, 2011
Photo courtesy: NCAOR
Abstract: There is a need to emphatically acknowledge the Antarctic as a ‘global knowledge commons’ and put into place a new profile of Asia in relation to the Antarctic. The challenge is to transform the contentious and contested assertions of territoriality to collectively shared norms of trusteeship so that a reinvigorated, Antarctic Treaty Secretariat remains effective enough to realise the noble objectives enshrined in the preamble to the Antarctic Treaty.
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