Prof. Edythe Weeks1 1Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff , United States, 2Fulbright Specialist Program, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America, 3Webster University, St. Louis, United States of America, 4Washington University, St. Louis, United States of America The fundamentals of...

A/Prof. David Leary1 1Faculty Of Law, University Of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia It’s isolation and extreme climate means Antarctica is one of the world’s richest regions for untouched geoheritage. Sites of global importance in relation to geodiversity include, inter alia,...

Dr Natalia Loukacheva1 1UNBC, Prince George, Canada The Arctic Council is a high-level international forum. By its legal structure, it does not have legal personality of an international organization under international law that would enable it to develop legislation or...

Dr Nikolas Sellheim1 1Helsinki Institute Of Sustainability Science (helsus), Helsinki, Finland On 17 December 2018 the UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (UNROP) was adopted by the UN General Assembly. This human...

Dr Alla Pozdnakova1 1Law Faculty University Of Oslo, Oslo, Norway This paper will discuss the contribution of the space sector to the sustainable development in the Polar Regions. Access to the outer space and space-based services is indispensable for the...

Mr Harry Hobbs1 1University Of Technology Sydney, Haymarket, Australia In the Uluru Statement from the Heart, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples ‘from all points of the southern sky’ gathered on the red dust of Mutitjulu to call for the...

Prof. Denzil Miller1, Ms Elise Murray2 1ANCORS/IMAS, Wollogong/Hobart, Australia, 2University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia This paper focuses on the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources’ (CCAMLR) efforts to improve Antarctic marine governance and conservation through enforcement of...

Dr Pierluigi Salvati1 1University Of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy An old Inuit saying goes: «Only when the ice breaks will you truly know who is your friend and who is your enemy». The Arctic has been warming faster than...

Miss Hema Nadarajah1 1University Of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada Soft law, binding or non-binding written legal instruments, have been observed to be increasing within the frontiers – regions and issue-areas that extend beyond national jurisdiction, and where governance substantively integrates...

Dr Edward King1, Commander Barbra Parker4, David Griffin1, Madeleine Cahill1, Emlyn Jones1, Ron Hoeke2, Stephanie Contardo3, Paul Branson3, Tracey Pitman1, Matthew Chamberlain1, Peter Oke1, Uwe Rosebrock1, Simon Pigot1, Gary Carroll1, Gary Brassington5, Pavel Savov5, Prasanth Divakaran5, Xinmei Huang5, Aihong Zhong5,...