Publication Type

Book Chapter

Version

acceptedVersion

Publication Date

1-2025

Abstract

The Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CAMLR Convention) was negotiated in the late 1970s in the shadow of the Soviet Union’s expanding interest in Antarctic krill fisheries. The development of a management regime for the krill fishery in the remote Southern Ocean vividly reflects geopolitical changes of the world at that time. The Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) is similarly being affected by geopolitical forces from the wider international system today. This chapter therefore first reviews the historical background for the establishment of the CCAMLR. It then provides an overview of geopolitics facing the CCAMLR. The chapter ends with an attempt to draw three possible pathways for CCAMLR’s future.

Keywords

Antarctica, Antarctic Treaty System, Antarctic Geopolitics, Antarctic History, Antarctic Governance, Management, Environmental Protection, Southern Ocean, Maritime Law

Discipline

Environmental Law

Research Areas

Asian and Comparative Legal Systems

Areas of Excellence

Growth in Asia

Publication

Geopolitical change and the Antarctic Treaty System: Historical lessons, current challenges

First Page

1

Last Page

13

ISBN

9789819798087

Publisher

Springer

City or Country

Singapore

Embargo Period

11-24-2024

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