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Islands have always fascinated people. They often seem remote and mysterious, set between the continents on which most people live. Indeed, many people choose islands for their perfect holiday idyll. In practice, however, the everyday social and economic reality is often very different. A Geography of Islands firstly examines the differing ways islands are formed. Despite the uniqueness of such islands in terms of shape, size, flora and fauna, and also their economic and developmental profiles, they all share certain characteristics and constraints imposed by their insularity. These present islands everywhere with a range of common problems. A Geography of Islands considers how their small scale, isolation, peripherality and often a lack of resources, has affected islands, in the present day and their past. It considers and discusses population issues, communications and services, island politics and new ways of making a living, especially tourism, found within contemporary island geography. A Geography of Islands gives a comprehensive survey of 'islandness' and its defining features. Steve Royle has visited and studied 312 islands in 49 countries in all the worlds oceans. It is full of up to date global case studies, from Okinawa to Inishboffin, and Hawaii to Crete. In the final chapter, all the themes are brought together in a case study of the Atlantic island of St Helena. It is well illustrated with the authors own photographs and maps. This book will appeal to those studying islands as well as those with an interest in the topic, particularly those engaged in dealing with small island economies.
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This book gives a comprehensive survey of 'islandness' and its defining features. It considers how islands' small scale, isolation and often lack of resources has affected them in the present day and in the past.
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Nice Summary of Island Knowledge
2012/1/5
形式:図書館
This is a nice little book with tidbits and observations about small islands and the difficulties associated with living on them. The author's writing style is a bit dry, perhaps, and he evidently cannot reconcile himself to the fact that the US invaded Grenada in 1983, not the next year, as he repeatedly asserts (as a history buff, this is an annoyance others might not share.)He uses the British island of St. Helena as a demonstrative case of all the problems remote tiny specks in the middle of vast oceans have; insularity, distance, limits on resources, disincentives for the young remaining, etc. Oddly, he mentions the Galapagos islands only once and in passing. I would have thought that those famous islands, now under siege from ecotourism and immigration from Ecuador, would have merited a paragraph at least. All in all, a concise compendium of facts about little known parts of the globe.
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