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Island Geographies

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Islands and their environs - aerial, terrestrial, aquatic - may be understood as intensifiers, their particular and distinctive geographies enabling concentrated study of many kinds of challenges and opportunities. This edited collection brings together several emerging and established academics with expertise in island studies, as well as interest in geopolitics, governance, adaptive capacity, justice, equity, self-determination, environmental care and protection, and land management. Individually and together, their perspectives provide theoretically useful, empirically grounded evidence of the contributions human geographers can make to knowledge and understanding of island places and the place of islands. Nine chapters engage with the themes, issues, and ideas that characterise the borderlands between island studies and human geography and allied fields, and are contributed by authors for whom matters of place, space, environment, and scale are key, and for whom islands hold an abiding fascination. The penultimate chapter is rather more experimental - a conversation among these authors and the editor - while the last chapter offers timely reflections upon island geographies' past and future, penned by the first named professor of island geography, Stephen Royle.

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ISBN: 9781138921726
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Author: Elaine Stratford
Publisher: Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis
Format: Hardback
Pagination: 212 pages
Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography
Genres: Applied ecology
Gender studies: women and girls
Retail and wholesale industries
Human geography
Regional geography
Geographical information systems, geodata and remote sensing
Environmentalist thought and ideology
Conservation of the environment
Natural disasters
Landscape architecture and design
Regional / International studies
Civil engineering, surveying and building