This book is dedicated to the study of the islands and their role in a globalised world. Beside Coastal or Oceanic/Marine Geography, there is little comprehensi

First Published in 2004. Islands have always fascinated people. They often seem remote and mysterious, set between the continents on which most people live. Ind

Islands and their environs – aerial, terrestrial, aquatic – may be understood as intensifiers, their particular and distinctive geographies enabling concent

Written by thirty experts, this text is aimed directly at people who involve themselves in the affairs of small islands- scientifically or politically . The aut

Big or small, islands and their inhabitant communities have long been the focus of intellectual enquiry, but in recent years a whole host of new academic instit