Offers an analysis providing an assessment for Falklands Islands waters. The maps are meant to identify those areas supporting seabird concentrations at greatest risk to the threat of surface pollution. This work aims to improve the coverage of the area and present a picture of the distribution of vulnerable concentrations of seabirds.

A crucial, timely synthesis of issues and solutions for the conservation of the world's seas and marine life.

Future development in the Arctic and Subarctic region requires careful attention to the possible consequences of the development activities themselves, in relation to their environmental, socioeconomic and cultural impacts. A more thorough understanding of the impact of future activities, however, demands the dissemination and confrontation of results from different regions and different scientific traditions. This requires scientific cooperation, not only across disciplines but across border. Primarily it requires both consensus and innovations in regard to methods. This book confronts such differences in approaches and methods in relation to the analysis of socioeconomic and environmental consequences of large-scale mineral and energy development activities in the Arctic and Subarctic, establishing the common ground upon which future research activities can be based.

Between February 1998 and January 1999, the JNCC systematically surveyed seabirds and marine mammals in the waters around the Falkland Islands using vessels of opportunity. The year round at sea dispersion patterns of these species have been recorded for this important sub-Antarctic region.