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We are pleased to announce two webinars motivated by the recent 2014 SCAR Open Science Conference and the upcoming Antarctica Day (1 December). Details of the first webinar are outlined below and details of the second webinar (to be held in November) will follow shortly.

In conjunction with this webinar series we have also launched a new Antarctic Social Sciences webpage. This page contains a basic introduction to Antarctic social sciences and links and abstracts for key book and journal articles. Video recordings of the webinars will be added once completed. If you have any additional resources or ideas for the webpage then please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.!

Live webinars will be hosted with the GoToWebinar platform and you can sign-up to attend the first webinar by clicking the link below:

Monday October 13th @ 9am NZDT (Sunday 12th October, 8pm GMT)
Webinar ID: 599899784
Webinar registration: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/599899784

Topics and speakers:

SCAR Social Sciences Expert Group by Daniela Liggett
Daniela Liggett is a lecturer at Gateway Antarctica (The University of Canterbury) and is currently the co-chair of the SCAR Social Sciences Action Group. She is particularly interested in qualitative research, which crosses different disciplines and challenges conventional research paradigms. Daniela’s research interests include environmental management and tourism regulation in extreme environments, tourism and development, as well as research into interdisciplinary methodologies and education in general. She will introduce the role of Social Sciences within SCAR and outline her own research interests.

Perspectives on Antarctic conservation: A common pool resource framework approach by Gabriela Gomez-Fell
‘The commons’ are at the core of many of the world's most pressing environmental issues, from climate change to biodiversity loss. Few places illustrate the complexities of a global commons better than Antarctica, where challenges such as ocean acidification, economic utilisation of natural resources and threats to its unique biodiversity imply a ‘tragedy’ in the making. My study utilises two contrasting common pool resource management frameworks to understand stakeholder perspectives on both the current and future state of Antarctic conservation.

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GoToWebinar has been provided as an in-kind contribution from Bredbåndsfylket.

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