IPY 2007-2008

This seminar looks at "the new geopolitical considerations that are affecting the Polar regions. Why has there been a growth of political attention towards these regions? What environmental changes are evident? What legal regimes are in place? What might be the geopolitical and strategic repercussions in the future?"

This will be #1 in a series of 4 Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) sponsored seminars entitled "Knowledges, Resources and Legal Regimes: The New Geopolitics of the Polar Regions". These seminars "take stock of the current situation with emphasis placed on the prevailing geopolitical, legal, scientific, governance and human security dimensions of the Arctic and Antarctic."

http://www.gg.rhul.ac.uk/Dodds/ESRC-Seminar%20Series-2010-11.pdf

Coordinated by:

Dr. Richard Powell (U. of Liverpool)
http://www.liv.ac.uk/geography/staff/powell.htm
&
Prof. Klaus Dodds (Royal Holloway, U. of London)
http://www.gg.rhul.ac.uk