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108. Hammering out an internationally supported consensus on Antarctica is a huge task requiring time and patience. And the lure of minerals increases with every new rumour of a find. Yet such a consensus is the only way to prevent a tragic plundering of the silent continent, and to maintain Antarctica as a symbol of peaceful international cooperation and environmental protection
Footnotes
1/ This section draw, on F. Szekely, 'The Marine and Coastal Environment', prepared for WCED, 19862 J. Beddington, 'Whaling', prepared for WCED, 1986; V. Sebek, 'Policy Paper on Dumping', prepared for WCED, 1986.
2/ M.W. Holdgate et al., 'The Marine Environment', in The World Environment 1972-1982 (Dublin: Tycooly International Publishing Ltd., 1982).
3/ See National Academy of Sciences, Oil in the Sea (Washington. DC: National Academy Press, 1985); and OECD, Maritime Transport, 1984 (Paris 1985).
4/ 'Scientists Closer to Identifying Cause of Antarctic Ozone Depletion', National Science Foundation News, 20 October 1986; Ad Hoc Working Group of Legal and Technical Experts for the Elaboration of a Protocol on the Control of Chlorofluorocarbons to the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer (Vienna Group), 'Report of the Second Part of the Workshop on the Control of Chlorofluorocarbons, Leesburg, USA', UNEP/WG.151/Background 2, Na.86-2184, UNEP. Nairobi, 15 October 1986: A.S. Miller and I.M. Mlntzer. The Sky Is the Limit: Strategies for Protecting the Ozone Layer. WRI Research Report No. 3 (Washington, DC: World Resources Institute, 1986).
5/ GESAMP in a recent evaluation of the present state of the health of the oceans. 'The Health of the Oceans', Regional Seas Reports and Studies No. 16, UNEP, Nairobi, 1982.
6/ M. Bertrand, 'Some Reflections on Reform of the United Nations', Joint Inspection, Unit, United Nations, Geneva, 1985.
7/ E.P. Eckholm, Down to Earth (London: Pluto Press, Ltd., 1982).
8/ J.A. Gulland and S. Garcia, 'Observed Patterns in Multispecies Fisheries,' in R.M. May (ed.), Exploitation of Marine Communities (Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1984); FAO, 'Review of the State of World Fishery Resources', Fisheries Circular 710 (rev. 4), Rome. 1985.
9/ Dr J. Gulland, Marine Resources Assessment Group, Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, personal communication, 20 January 1987.
