Alessandro Antonello (Flinders University) and Adrian Howkins (University of Bristol), historians and members of SCAR’s Standing Committee on the Humanities and Social Sciences, have a new article out in the Journal of Historical Geography.
It is the first historical analysis of the use of environmental impact statements in Antarctica by the United States in the 1970s—the first such use of impact assessment in Antarctica, preceding the comprehensive environmental protections of the Madrid Protocol after 1991.
Read their article “The rise of technocratic environmentalism: the United States, Antarctica, and the globalisation of the environmental impact statement” on ScienceDirect.