The impact of human activities on wilderness and aesthetic values in Antarctica

Polar research

IanD.Bishop¹  Rupert Summerson² 

[1] Department of Infrastructure Engineering, University of MelbourneVIC 3010, Australia;Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, University of MelbourneVIC 3010, Australia Correspondence

关键词: Antarctica;    Madrid Protocol;    wilderness;    aesthetic;    values;    photographs;   

DOI  :  10.3402/polar.v31i0.10858

学科分类：自然科学（综合）

来源: Co-Action Publishing

【 摘 要 】

There has been little progress in implementing protection of wilderness and aesthetic values in Antarctica since the coming into force of the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty in 1998. This can in part be attributed to a lack of research defining these values and showing how they may be assessed. In 2009, a survey comprising 90 images of Antarctic landscapes was established on the Internet to canvass as wide a cross-section of people with an interest in Antarctica as possible on their perceptions of wilderness and their aesthetic preference. At the time of writing, over 337 respondents from 23 nationalities have taken part in the survey. Responses were analysed to determine the effect of human presence, both transient and as infrastructure, on perceptions of wilderness and aesthetic values. The analysis was in three parts: (1) all images combined; (2) images grouped by landscape type, derived from the Environmental Domains of Antarctica regionalization; and (3) 16 pairs of digit...

【 授权许可】

CC BY-NC