... cooperative process, the eight Arctic countries are defined as being Canada, Denmark/ Greenland, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden and the United States. The polar marine environment in regional ... as far as co-ordination was concerned, the polit- ical and legal context governing activities in the Arctic and the Antarctic differ considerably. 48 The polar marine environment in regional cooperation ... for marine environmental protection in the Southern Ocean. Other major issue-areas involved in the implementation of the Protocol include: institutionalisation within the ATS; further normative...