... in pro-tecting the polar marine environment. In Chapter 4, a brief account of the regional cooperative processes in the Arctic and the Antarctic, and their addressing the polar marine environment, ... approaches to protecting the polar marine environment – at the global, regional, sub-regional and domestic levels – and their actual application inselected issue-areas of marine pollution in polar oceans. ... Antarctic, and Canada for the Arctic. Then there is the ‘bi- polar case of the United States. One other important polar state, Russia, is morethoroughly addressed in terms of the various sources of pollution...