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Antarctica : The Battle for the Seventh Continent by Doaa Abdel-Motaal is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Antarctica : The Battle for the Seventh Continent about?

The thawing Antarctic continent offers living space and marine and mineral resources that were previously inaccessible. This book discusses how revisiting the Antarctic Treaty System and dividing up the continent preemptively could spare the world serious conflict. The Antarctic Treaty and related agreements—collectively known as the Antarctic Treaty System (ATS)—regulate the seventh continent, which is the only continent without a native human population. The main treaty within the ATS came into force in 1961 and suspended all territorial claims in Antarctica. The Antarctic Environmental Protocol followed in 1998 and prohibited any minerals exploitation in the continent. With this prohibition up for review in 2048, this book asks whether the Antarctic Treaty can continue to protect Antarctica. Doaa Abdel-Motaal—an expert on environmental issues who has traveled through the Arctic and Antarctic—explains that the international community must urgently turn its attention to examining how to divide up the thawing continent in a peaceful manner. She discusses why the Antarctic Treaty is unlikely to be an adequate measure in the face of international competition for invaluable resources

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Author

Doaa Abdel-Motaal

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9798216048336

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Historical Fiction, Law, Political Science