People and Antarctica

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A selection of resources on Antarctic social aspects

Ortega, E.-L. A., Makanse, Y. and Bastmeijer, K. 2024. Rights of Nature and the Antarctic: philosophical considerations, possible modalities, and relations with the Antarctic Treaty System. The Polar Journal, 14, 514-534.

Leihy, R., Coetzee, B., Morgan, F., Raymond, B., Shaw, J., Terauds, A., Bastmeijer, K. and Chown, S. 2020. Antarctica’s wilderness fails to capture continent’s biodiversity. Nature, 583, 1-5.

Many of the above documents are freely available from the publisher websites, but if not, please feel free to reach out to the authors for a copy