Antarctic science and its likely directions
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1993
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Fletcher, Neville H.
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Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, Australian National University
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The Madrid Protocol ·to the Antarctic Treaty, for which
Australia was one of the prime movers, has designated
Antarctica as a 'natural reserve devoted to peace and
science'. These are interesting words. No one could have
any quibble about the word 'peace: but why 'science'?
Certainly it is an acceptable activity from an ethical point
of view, and a contrast is probably intended between the
exploratory and conservatory nature of science and the
exploitative activities of economics, commerce, industry
and technology, but it immediately begs the questions
'Why science in Antarctica?' and 'What science in
Antarctica?' in this chapter I shall try to provide answers
to both these questions.
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Towards a Conservation Strategy for the Australian Antarctic Territory : the 1993 Fenner Conference on the Environmen
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