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Record #181896:
A universal metaphor: Australia's opposition to commercial whaling / Australia. National Task Force on Whaling.
Title: | A universal metaphor: Australia's opposition to commercial whaling / Australia. National Task Force on Whaling. |
Author (corporate): | Australia. |
Date: | 1997. |
Publisher: | Canberra: Environment Australia |
Abstract: | Report of task force charged with advising government on most practical ways to achieve Australia's stated policy of bringing about world-wide ban on commercial whaling. Includes discussion of precautionary principle and conservation best practice; lack of necessity for commercial whaling; current whaling and potential for resumption of commercial whaling. Sets out arguments against commercial whaling, with particular reference to inhumaneness of whaling, conservation and sustainable development, and moral and ethical arguments. Evaluates community action and support for policy, and role of non-governmental organisations. |
Keywords: | .008.1 -- Policy. 502 -- Environmental issues. 502.74 -- Animal rights. 502.743 -- Conservation, animal species. 599.5 -- Cetacea. 639.245.1 -- Whaling industry. 338.98 -- Fisheries, regulation. 504.062 -- Natural resources, conservation. 330.34 -- Economic development. 113/119 -- Attitudes to nature. 341 -- Law, international. F -- Biological sciences. (*7) -- Antarctic regions. (*80) -- Southern Ocean. (94) -- Australia. |
Location(s): | SCO: SPRI-SHF: 639.245.1 : 347.246 |
ISBN: | 0642214050 |
SPRI record no.: | 181896 |
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