Environmental Assessment and Management Challenges of the Fildes Peninsula Region

Antarctic Futures: Human Engagement with the Antarctic Environment

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 169-191

  Braun, Christina ^a   Hertel, Fritz ^b   Mustafa, Osama ^a   Nordt, Anja ^a   Pfeiffer, Simone ^c   Peter, Hans Ulrich ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b Federal Environment Agency (UBA)   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antarctic Specially Protected Area; Antarctica; Environmental management; Fildes Peninsula Region; Human impact

Indexed keywords

EID: 84955660009     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-6582-5_7     Document Type: Chapter

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