@ARTICLE{Machowski_Jacek_IASC_1993, author={Machowski, Jacek}, volume={vol. 14}, number={No 2}, journal={Polish Polar Research}, pages={177-207}, howpublished={online}, year={1993}, publisher={Polish Academy of Sciences}, publisher={Committee on Polar Research}, abstract={In contrast to Antarctica, the Arctic was for a long time deprived of an adequate system of multilateral international scientific cooperation. That gap was filled in 1990 by the foundation of a non-governmental International Arctic Science Committee (IASC). In this article, the origin, structure, operation and perspectives of that Committee are presented.}, type={Article}, title={IASC as legal framework of international scientific cooperation in the Arctic}, URL={http://journals.pan.pl/Content/111054/PDF-MASTER/1993-2_177-207.pdf}, keywords={Arctic, scientific cooperation, law and politics}, }