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7 Antarctic environment

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• Key findings
• 1 Introduction
  • 1.1 Global importance of Antarctica
  • 1.2 The natural environment
  • 1.3 Antarctic governance
    • 1.3.1 Antarctic Treaty
    • 1.3.2 Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources
  • 1.4 Australian Antarctic Territory
  • 1.5 In this chapter
• 2 State and trends of the Antarctic environment
  • 2.1 The physical environment
    • 2.1.1 The atmosphere - climate and weather patterns
    • Assessment summary 7.1 - state and trends of the Antarctic atmosphere
    • 2.1.2 The cryosphere - Antarctic ice sheet and glaciers
    • 2.1.3 The cryosphere - sea ice
    • Assessment summary 7.2 - state and trends of the Antartctic cryosphere
  • 2.2 The Southern Ocean
    • 2.2.1 Ocean acidification
    • Assessment summary 7.3 - state and trends of the Southern Ocean
  • 2.3 The living environment
    • 2.3.1 Marine environments
    • 2.3.2 Terrestrial environments
    • Assessment summary 7.4 - state and trends of the terrestrial environment of Macquarie Island
    • 2.3.3 Vertebrate populations
    • Assessment summary 7.5 - state and trends of Antarctic and subantarctic vertebrates
  • 2.4 The station environment
    • 2.4.1 Operational indicators
    • Assessment summary 7.6 - state and trends of the station environment
    • 2.4.2 Contaminated sites and pollution
    • Assessment summary 7.7 - state and trends of the contaminated Antartic sites
  • 2.5 Heritage values
    • 2.5.1 Natural heritage
    • Assessment summary 7.8 - state and trends of listed or specially protected sites in Antarctica
    • 2.5.2 Historic heritage
    • Assessment summary 7.9 - state and trends of the historic heritage in Antarctica
• 3. Pressures affecting the Antarctic environment
  • 3.1 Pressures on the marine environment
    • 3.1.1 Marine species
    • Assessment summary 7.10 - pressures affecting Antarctic marine species
    • 3.1.2 Commercial fisheries
    • Assessment summary 7.11 - pressures affecting Antarctic fisheries
  • 3.2 Pressures on the terrestrial environment
    • Assessment summary 7.12 - pressures affecting the Antarctic terrestrial environment
  • 3.3 Pressures on Antarctic historic heritage
    • Assessment summary 7.13 - pressures affecting historical Antarctic heritage
• 4 Effectiveness of Antarctic management
  • 4.1 Governance
    • 4.1.1 International engagement
    • 4.1.2 Australian legislation
    • 4.1.3 Marine environment
  • 4.2 Management processes
    • 4.2.1 Protected areas
    • 4.2.2 Australian Antarctic Division environmental management system
    • 4.2.3 Training and awareness
  • 4.3 Management achievements
    • Assessment summary 7.14 - effectiveness of Antarctic environmental management
• 5 Resilience of the Antarctic environment
• 6 Risks to the Antarctic environment
  • Assessment summary 7.15 - Current and emerging risks to the Antarctic environment
• 7 Outlook for the Antarctic environment
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