Leadership in politics and science within the Antarctic Treaty

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Table 1 Counting rules for scoring the contribution by Party to each Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting (ATCM) policy paper.

Counting case	Count
Single party, single target (either ATCM or CEP ^a)	Scores 1
Single party, targeted to both CEP and ATCM	Scores 0.5 to each target
Two parties, single target	Scores 0.5 each party
Two parties, two targets	Scores 0.25 to each target for each Party
Multiple (n) parties, one target	First named scores 0.5, others each score 0.5/(n − 1)
Multiple (n) parties, two targets	First named scores 0.25 for each target others each score 0.25/(n − 1) to each target

^aCommittee for Environmental Protection.

Fig. 1  Total sum of working papers produced by each of the Parties to the Antarctic Treaty for the period 1992–2010, ordered by descending total number from the left-hand side of the plot. The figure includes the following abbreviations: SCAR (Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research), COMNAP (Council of Managers of National Antarctic Programs), CCAMLR (Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources), ASOC (Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition) and IAATO (International Association of Antarctic Tour Operators).

Fig. 2  Normalized plot comparing production of Working Papers with that of Information Papers for the period 1998–2010. See the text for the definition of the index R _w. The figure includes the following abbreviations: IAATO (International Association of Antarctic Tour Operators), ASOC (Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition), CCAMLR (Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources), COMNAP (Council of Managers of National Antarctic Programs) and SCAR (Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research).

Fig. 3  Normalized plot of the annual average productivity (A_P) of a party compared with the overall average (A_A), presented separately for the period up to and including 1997 (pre-PEP) and from 1998 onwards (post-PEP). The figure shows a normalized index, R_A, where R_A=(A_P – A_A)/(A_P+A_A), for each of the parties ordered with respect to Σn_wp (largest at the bottom), with filled bars for the post-PEP period and open bars for the pre-PEP period. A value of R _A<0 indicates that the party concerned is performing less well than the average, whilst R _A>0 shows a better than average performance. The figure includes the following abbreviations: IAATO (International Association of Antarctic Tour Operators), ASOC (Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition), CCAMLR (Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources), COMNAP (Council of Managers of National Antarctic Programs) and SCAR (Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research).

Fig. 4  Log/log plot of the number of Working Papers produced by all Consultative Parties compared with their output of science papers from 1992 to 2010.

Fig. 5  Log/log plot of the number of Working Papers (WPs) produced by all Consultative Parties compared with their output of science papers from 1992 to 2010, normalized by the 2010 gross domestic product (GDP) of the Consultative Parties. GDP data are for 2010 (World Bank 2011) and are in USD.

World Bank. 2011. Gross domestic product 2010. World development indicators database. Accessed on the internet at http://databank.worldbank.org/databank/download/GDP.pdf in July 2011..

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