Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Antarctica
- Tourism
- growing
- The 'gray pound'
- extreme environment
- skiing
- photographers
- 46000 tourist a year
- Sustainability
- 100 passengers per site
- 10% of sites damaged
- IAATO
- International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators
- one ship per site
- No waste
- demand for water
- who's land?
- buildings?
- power stations?
- Resource Exploitation
- Oil and Mining
- Currently banned
- Madrid Protocol 1998
- review 2048
- TEP leaks 35 times per year
- Oil in Southern Ocean
- Whaling
- Factory Ships
- 250,000 Blue Whales to 1000
- banned in 1994
- Still allowed for Research
- worth $1 million
- Fishing
- CCAMLR
- Quotas
- 1982
- not sustainable
- Arctic Rock Cod can no longer be fished
- Krill
- food chains
- reproduction rates low -PTF
- Government
- Antactic treaty
- 1961
- 12 countries
- no military presents or mineral extraction
- share scientific Research
- No natives
- Fragile
- who's land?
- need for oil
- who gets profits?
- Ecosystem
- Fragile
- very adapted organisms
- two types of flowering plants
- can not adapt to change
- short growing season
- low light levels
- highly linked food chains
- over fishing Krill
- Geography
- Southern Ocean
- Larger than Europe
- 14 million km2
- high altitude
- Transantactic Mountains
- 'cold desert'
- 150mm precipitation per year