Implementing the Environmental Protection Regime for the Antarctic

When the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty entered into force on 14 January 1998, a new phase commenced for the Antarctic Treaty System. The parties to the Protocol are today confronting issues related to the implementation of a complex international environmental protection regime, both in international and domestic contexts. Various implementation questions need to be solved in order to enhance and make possible the implementation of the Protocol such as: what would be the consequences for the parties of a possible failure in resolving the pending implementation issues; on what premises can the solutions be based, and what, then, are the options available? The book provides a systematic overview of the implementation issue in sections on jurisdiction, control and enforcement in the Antarctic (Part I), institutional support to the implementation of the Protocol (Part II), normative support to the implementation of the Protocol: an Antarctic liability regime (Part III), relationship with other international instruments and arrangements (Part IV), and, through a series of selected case-studies, issues involved in domestic implementation of the Protocol (Part V).