Australia on the World Stage

Australia on the World Stage
Author: Bridget Brooklyn
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2022-10-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 1000729125

Australia on the World Stage: History, Politics, and International Relations offers a fresh examination of Australia’s past and present. From the complex interactions of First Nations to modern international relations with significant partners and allies, it examines the forces that have influenced the place now called Australia both historically and today. It is a unique history told in two parts. The first half of the book examines the way Australia acted on the world stage both before and after British colonisation. It outlines the evolution of Australia’s relationship with the United Kingdom, first as colonies, then a dominion, and finally as an independent nation. It finishes with a First Nations perspective on foreign relations. The second half of the book provides a wide-ranging history of Australia’s dealings with major powers, the United States and China, as well as its relationships with New Zealand, Aotearoa, the Pacific Islands, Indonesia, Japan, Antarctica, and the United Nations. Written by leading and emerging researchers in their fields, this book encourages the reader to consider Australia’s performance on the world stage over the longue durée, well before the word ‘Australia’ was ever dreamt up. This interdisciplinary work challenges lazy stereotypes that see Australia's international history as fixed and uncontested. In revisiting Australia’s foreign relations, this work also asks the reader to consider its future directions.

Anthropocene Antarctica

Anthropocene Antarctica
Author: Elizabeth Leane
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2019-09-12
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0429770758

Anthropocene Antarctica offers new ways of thinking about the ‘Continent for Science and Peace’ in a time of planetary environmental change. In the Anthropocene, Antarctica has become central to the Earth’s future. Ice cores taken from its interior reveal the deep environmental history of the planet and warming ocean currents are ominously destabilising the glaciers around its edges, presaging sea-level rise in decades and centuries to come. At the same time, proliferating research stations and tourist numbers challenge stereotypes of the continent as the ‘last wilderness.’ The Anthropocene brings Antarctica nearer in thought, entangled with our everyday actions. If the Anthropocene signals the end of the idea of Nature as separate from humans, then the Antarctic, long considered the material embodiment of this idea, faces a radical reframing. Understanding the southern polar region in the twenty-first century requires contributions across the disciplinary spectrum. This collection paves the way for researchers in the Environmental Humanities, Law and Social Sciences to engage critically with the Antarctic, fostering a community of scholars who can act with natural scientists to address the globally significant environmental issues that face this vitally important part of the planet.

Australia's Antarctic Policy Options

Australia's Antarctic Policy Options
Author: Stuart Harris
Publisher: Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies Australian National University
Total Pages: 442
Release: 1984
Genre: Law
ISBN:

Contains 11 papers concerned with various aspects of Australia's policy options regarding Antarctica including sovereignty, boundaries, mineral resources, fauna, and scientific research.

The Antarctic Legal Regime

The Antarctic Legal Regime
Author: Christopher Clayton Joyner
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Total Pages: 302
Release: 1988-07-28
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9024736188

These three volumes contain a comprehensive & current documentation of sources of international environmental law (200 instruments) in a handy version. Several of these documents were never printed elsewhere. Volume 1 embodies the important declarations, resolutions or drafts of international organizations & bodies: 25 UNO/UNEP/FAO documents (including all UNEP-guidelines), 15 resolutions of the three recording bodies (International Law Association, Institut de Droit International & ILC), 14 ECE-Declarations/Recommendations, 32 OECD-Decisions/Recommendations, 10 Resolutions/Recommendations of the Council of Europe, 9 Declarations on Climate Change/Sustainable Development, 9 important Drafts (including the US-Restatement & the new ECE-Draft Convention on Transboundary Watercourses). Volumes 2 & 3 contain the bior multilateral agreements: 28 global or regional Agreements for the protection of seas (including the new Lisbon Convention & the Kingston Protocol), 17 Agreements of Regimes of European, American or African Rivers (including the Guidelines/Action Programmes for Lake Constance & Rhine, & the consolidated version of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement), 14 global & 9 regional Agreements for the protection of species & nature (including the new Protocol for the Antarctic), 2 Conventions for the protection of soils (control of wastes), 11 Agreements for the protection of air/atmosphere (including the new Geneva VOCs-Protocol) & documents for the Earth Summit (2 UN-Resolutions, Drafts of Earth Charter, Biodiversity & Climate Convention). Several documents are of 1991 (a few of December 1991). The volumes contain introductions to each part, references, basic data of the treaties, & three forewords ( G. Handl, H.D. Genscher & Prince Charles ).

Antarctic Marine Living Resources Conservation Act 1981 (Australia) (2018 Edition)

Antarctic Marine Living Resources Conservation Act 1981 (Australia) (2018 Edition)
Author: The Law The Law Library
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 24
Release: 2018-05-27
Genre:
ISBN: 9781720420996

Antarctic Marine Living Resources Conservation Act 1981 (Australia) (2018 Edition) The Law Library presents the complete text of the Antarctic Marine Living Resources Conservation Act 1981 (Australia) (2018 Edition). Updated as of May 15, 2018 This book contains: - The complete text of the Antarctic Marine Living Resources Conservation Act 1981 (Australia) (2018 Edition) - A table of contents with the page number of each section

Antarctica and International Law

Antarctica and International Law
Author: W. M. Bush
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1684
Release: 1991
Genre: Law
ISBN:

Your Definitive Source for Documents Involving the Antarctic Treaty Regime. This set is the most inclusive collection of materials available on the Antarctica region, with a focus on the Antarctica Treaty Regime. Antarctica & International Law examines the role that non-governmental organizations play in the affairs of Antarctica.

The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914

The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
Author: Douglas Mawson
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 697
Release: 2010-01-08
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1409224643

Mawson turned down an invitation to join Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova Expedition in 1910; Australian geologist Griffith Taylor went instead. Dawson chose to lead his own expedition, the Australian Antarctic Expedition, to King George V Land and Adelie Land, the sector of the Antarctic continent immediately south of Australia, which at the time was almost entirely unexplored. The objectives were to carry out geographical exploration and scientific studies, including visiting the South Magnetic Pole.