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Collaboration
You now have all of the facts you need to make some decisions
about whether we can inhabit Antarctica and how we can do
it. With your group, develop a plan for:
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feeding people and determining the impact humans will
have on the food chain;
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finding energy sources;
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determining the types of structures that could be built
to house people;
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and writing the laws necessary to maintain order.
View the Antarctica: 90 Degrees South video titled Do
I Need a Passport? on habitation.
Guided Questions
Treaties
Who owns Antarctica?
Are there treaties in place for settlement
of Antarctica?
What do you think is the most important
element of any treaty? Can a treaty work if there is
no enforcing body?
Resources
Antartica
http://www0.un.org/cyberschoolbus/treaties/ant.asp
Antarctica Treaties Act, 1996 This
is the actual treaty that was put into place in 1996.
http://www.gov.za/gazette/acts/1996/a60-96.htm
Antarctica Treaties
http://www.state.gov/g/oes/ocns/9570.htm
Antarctica II
http://www.reachoutmichigan.org/funexperiments/agesubject/lessons/
newton/AntarcticII.html
Antarctica A hotlist
of treaties
http://www.loc.gov/law/guide/antarctica.html
Marine Pollution
How can we deal with marine pollution?
Resources
Encyclopedia of
Sustainable Development
http://www.doc.mmu.ac.uk/aric/esd/index.html
Marine Pollution One
http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/OCEAN_PLANET/HTML/peril_pollution1.html
Index of Ocean Regulations
http://www.epa.gov/owow/oceans/regs/
British Antarctic Survey
http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/About_BAS/Cambridge/Divisions?EID/
Environment/Prevention_of_marine_pollution.html
Environmental Impact
What is the environmental impact of
humans in Antarctica?
Resources
Encyclopedia
of Sustainable Development
http://www.doc.mmu.ac.uk/aric/esd/index.html
Human Impact
http://octopus.gma.org/surfing/human/
Human Interaction with Antarctica
http://auexplorer.tripod.com/antarctica3.html
Australian Antarctic Division
http://www.aad.gov.au/default.asp?contnet=dynamic&title=Human+
impacts+ in+Antarctica&casic=3436&docid=2620&type=1&children=
Waste Management
How will we deal with waste management?
Resources
Australian Antarctic Division Waste Management
http://www.aad.gov.au/default.asp?content=dynamic&title=
Waste&casid= 214&docid=1&type=3&children=3416,3417,3418,755,3419
Encyclopedia of Sustainable Development
http://www.doc.mmu.ac.uk/aric/esd/index.html
South Pole Waste Segregation Plan
http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/antarctica/background/NSF/waste.html
Waste Disposal and Management
http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/About_BAS/Cambridge/
Divisions/EID/Environment/Waste_management.html
Protected Areas
How can we manage protected areas?
Resources
Best
Practice in Park Management
http://www.ea.gov.au/parks/best-practice/index.html
Earth Share
http://www.earthshare.org
Managing Antarctica, CCAMLR and the Antarctica Treaty
http://www.wdcs.org/dan/publishing.nsf/allweb/
BB006BA85069AE4E80256C5A002ACC03
Food Production
How will we produce food for the people
living in Antarctica?
Resources
The
Ecosystem and Food Web of the Antaractic Peninsula
http://www.literacynet.org/polar/pop/html/project-ecosystem.html
Antarctica The Ice is
Moving
http://www.bluedolphin.org/Antarctica.html
Food in Antarctica
http://www.coolantarctica.com/Antarctica%20fact%20file/science/food.htm
Housing
What type of housing will be appropriate
for the people who live there?
Resources
Housing
in Antarctica
http://www.hu.mtu.edu/~mmcooper/old%20homepage/classes/housing.html
Building up, at the bottom
http://csmweb2.emcweb.com/durable/2000/10/26/fp11s1-csm.shtml
Transportation
What type of transportation system will be used?
Resources
Antarctica
http://www.1uptravel.com/international/other/antarctica/transportation.html
Antarctica Transportation 2001
http://workmall.com/wfb2001/antarctica/antarctica_transportation.html
Transportation in Antarctica
http://www.hu.mtu.edu/~mmcooper/classes/transport.html
Antarctica Transportation Profile 2005
http://www.indexmundi.com/antarctica/transportation_profile.html
Laws
What laws will be needed to protect the environment?
What laws will be needed to provide a save environment
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