Mitigating the Impact of Human Activities in Antarctica for Better Quality of Life

Shah, Rohani Mohd

doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2013.07.202

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“…The Antarctic tourism industry has experienced dramatic changes during the past 50 years, growing from small and infrequent trips, such as Lars-Eric Lindblad's 57 passenger Antarctic Expedition in 1966, to an industry with more than 50,000 visitors each year (Erceg, 2017;IAATO, 2019a). Wealthy passengers, predominantly from the USA, China, Australia, Germany, and the United Kingdom, spend $3,000-$20,000 USD per person to visit Antarctica for 10-21 days between November and March, when austral summer temperatures range from −4°C to 5°C and daylight can last up to 23 h per day (Bender et al, 2016;IAATO, 2017;Jabour, 2011;Picard, 2015;Shah, 2013). These visits are called expedition tours, with landings to camp on the ice, visit historic sites, view penguin and seal colonies, and go sea kayaking, trekking, or even scuba diving (Jabour, 2011;Liggett, McIntosh, Thompson, Gilbert, & Storey, 2011;Shah, 2013).…”

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“…Wealthy passengers, predominantly from the USA, China, Australia, Germany, and the United Kingdom, spend $3,000-$20,000 USD per person to visit Antarctica for 10-21 days between November and March, when austral summer temperatures range from −4°C to 5°C and daylight can last up to 23 h per day (Bender et al, 2016;IAATO, 2017;Jabour, 2011;Picard, 2015;Shah, 2013). These visits are called expedition tours, with landings to camp on the ice, visit historic sites, view penguin and seal colonies, and go sea kayaking, trekking, or even scuba diving (Jabour, 2011;Liggett, McIntosh, Thompson, Gilbert, & Storey, 2011;Shah, 2013). Land-based adventure tourism is becoming increasingly popular, and now even air-supported tours take visitors sightseeing, hiking, mountain climbing, and skiing (Lamers et al, 2008).…”

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Reframing Antarctica’s ice loss: impacts of cryospheric change on local human activity

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Physical scientists, social scientists, humanities scholars, and journalists have all framed Antarctica as a place of global importance—as a laboratory for scientific research, as a strategic site for geopolitical agendas, and more recently as a source of melting ice that could catastrophically inundate populations worldwide. Yet, the changing cryosphere impacts society within Antarctica as well, and this article expands the focus of Antarctic ice research to include human activities on and around the continent. It reframes Antarctica as a place with human history and local activities that are being affected by melting ice, even if the consequences are much smaller in scale than the effects of global sea level rise. Specifically focused on tourism and conservation along the west Antarctica Peninsula (wAP), this article demonstrates the impacts of changing glaciers and sea ice on the timing, location, and type of tourism as well as the ability of changing ice to mediate human experiences through conservation agendas. As future ice conditions influence Antarctic tourism and conservation, an attention to issues emerging within the wAP region offers a new perspective on climate change impacts and the management of Antarctic activities in the 21st-century Anthropocene.

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“…The tourism environmental impacts have occurred locally but added up to a global dimension (Shah, 2013). From a wider view, these impacts can be categorized into direct and indirect (Gössling, 2002), polluted and non-polluted (Kariminia, Ahmad, & Hashim, 2012) and physical and non-physical groups (Nicoletta & Servidio, 2012).…”

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A Global View on the Environmental Consequences of Antarctic Tourism

Karimini

Ahmad

Hashim

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Antarctica tourism evidently harms its ecosystem in direct and indirect ways. Ecosystems are dynamic and complex systems, which simultaneously depend on various humanity and natural factors. The nature of tourist activities continuously changes, which needs improved policies and protection standards. If the varied tourism activities and the diverse consequent impacts are not adequately addressed, they may not be thoroughly considered by international treaties. This can pose unacceptable environmental risks supposedly legally safeguarded by these treaties. Hence, this study studied Antarctic tourism impacts in five major groups from a global view. The results are useful for future legislations and implementations. Keywords: Antarctic tourism, environmental impact; categorisation, global perspective eISSN 2514-7528 © 2018. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open-access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.

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“…Tour operators are also required to coordinate with each other to avoid more than one vessels at a landing site at any one time, apart from delivering no more than 100 passengers at a landing site at any one time, with a ratio of 1:20 guide-to-passenger be maintained while ashore. (Shah, 2013).…”

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Guidelines for Antarctic Tourism: An Evaluation

Abdullah

Shah

2018

E-BPJ

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Since Antarctic tourism has special features because of its peculiar characteristics, tourism activities need to be controlled. By using the qualitative method, this paper argues that although there are guidelines related to Antarctic Tourism, there are an increasing number of consultative parties who question whether the Antarctic environment can be adequately protected through these guidelines. The paper reveals the reasons underlying the poor governance of the guidelines and in view of the argument that Antarctic tourism regulation is still largely piecemeal, therefore, this paper concludes with suggestions to overcome the problem in order to ensure the sustainability of Antarctic tourism.

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Mitigating the Impact of Human Activities in Antarctica for Better Quality of Life

Cited by 9 publications

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Reframing Antarctica’s ice loss: impacts of cryospheric change on local human activity

Reframing Antarctica’s ice loss: impacts of cryospheric change on local human activity

A Global View on the Environmental Consequences of Antarctic Tourism

Guidelines for Antarctic Tourism: An Evaluation

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