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Environmental Protection in the Arctic as an International Regime

Abstract

Arctic environmental protection and the protection of species living in the Arctic are subject to a number of multilateral international treaties, bilateral agreements, and instruments of soft law, and they are touched upon by the national laws of the Arctic coastal countries as well. Based on the theoretical approaches of Oran Young, the paper construes the current environmental protection in the Arctic as an international regime. The paper defines the basic features of the Arctic and Antarctic environmental regimes, such as duration, resilience, an institutional structure, internationalization and the agreed procedures and processes of the regime’s development. The paper discusses whether their differences (e.g. ocean versus continent, inhabitants, military use) have been reflected in their environmental regimes. By comparing these features and regimes, the paper concludes that the procedure used in the Antarctic might not be fully transferrable to the case of the Arctic.

Keywords

Arctic, international regime, international law, environment, Antarctic

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Author Biography

Zuzana Trávničková

Born in 1977, she studied at the University of Economics in Prague and the Faculty of Law at Charles University in Prague. Her expertise lies in both private and public international law, with a particular focus on the regulation of diplomatic and consular relations.

Vladimíra Knotková

Born in 1975, she studied at the University of Economics. Her research focuses on the position of Asian countries, particularly China, Japan, and Korea, in international relations, as well as the application of theoretical approaches to analyzing current issues in international relations.

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