TY - JOUR N2 - 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. L1 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/111054/PDF/1993-2_177-207.pdf L2 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/111054 PY - 1993 IS - No 2 EP - 207 KW - Arctic KW - scientific cooperation KW - law and politics A1 - Machowski, Jacek PB - Polish Academy of Sciences PB - Committee on Polar Research VL - vol. 14 DA - 1993 T1 - IASC as legal framework of international scientific cooperation in the Arctic SP - 177 UR - http://journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/111054 T2 - Polish Polar Research ER -