| Description |
x, 351 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Contents note continued: Disease -- Biodiversity -- Catastrophes: volcanoes, earthquakes and tsunamis -- Environmental futures -- 8.Islands at risk? -- Black swans, uncertainty and insecurity -- Struggling economies, challenging environments? -- In search of hybridity? -- From the ends of the world -- Warm winds of change |
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Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction -- SIS and SISI -- Low-lying and high islands -- A short synopsis -- 2.Islands and political economies -- Economic development -- Trade in patchwork economies -- Aid -- Politics and problems of the possible -- Vulnerability and resilience -- 3.The historic core: agriculture and fisheries -- Agriculture -- Forestry -- Fisheries -- Out of resources? -- 4.Towards modern economies? -- Manufacturing -- Mining -- Tourism -- Services -- Employment and incomes -- Discontents of modernity -- 5.Urban futures? -- Populations -- Rural-urban migration -- Resettlement -- Urbanization -- Urban environments -- Beyond the city -- 6.Leaving the islands: international migration -- Contemporary migration -- Migration rationales -- Remittances -- Brain and skill drain -- Return migration -- National interventions -- The outward urge -- 7.Environmental change -- Climate change -- Sea-level rise -- Coral reefs -- Cyclones -- Floods -- Drought -- Water -- |
| Summary |
This book provides a wide-ranging comparative analysis of contemporary economic, social, political and environmental change in small islands, island states and territories, through every ocean. It focuses on those island realms conventionally perceived as developing, rather than developed, in the Caribbean, Pacific and Indian Oceans. The author examines the decline of agriculture and the rise of tourism, the problems of urbanization, and the particular role of migration and remittances, within a culture of migration. He seeks to balance economic challenges with environmental threats, notably that of climate change, and social changes with the survival of culture, pointing to awkward and hybrid development futures |
| Analysis |
Australian |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Also issued online |
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English |
| Subject |
Environmental degradation -- Developing countries.
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Island ecology -- Developing countries -- Finance.
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Islands -- Economic conditions.
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Islands -- Environmental aspects -- Developing countries -- Finance.
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Islands -- Environmental aspects -- Developing countries.
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Islands -- Environmental conditions.
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| LC no. |
2012954985 |
| ISBN |
1781003505 (hbk.) |
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1781003513 (ebook) |
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9781781003503 (hbk.) |
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9781781003510 (ebook) |
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