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Island Futures: Caribbean Survival in the Anthropocene

The AAG Review of Books, 2021
Mimi Sheller’s Island Futures is a unique text. On one level, it offers an innovative approach to conceptualizing and studying development and disaster politics through a productive engagement between mobility studies and several strands of critical ...
Kevin Grove
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Study of bioindicator at mangrove island: Case study of Carey Island

2012 IEEE Symposium on Business, Engineering and Industrial Applications, 2012
This paper reviews on the bioindicator for Carey Island which is one of the mangrove islands in Malaysia. The bioindicator was used to assess the level of river pollution at Judah, Air Hitam and Keluang River rather than using normal test such as Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD) and Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD) tests.
Faizah Kamarudin, Marfiah Ab. Wahid, Azinoor Azida Abu Bakar, Nurhafidzah Ahmad, Ismail Atan, Zahrullaili Yahya, Wardah Tahir, Juhaizad Ahmad, Aminuddin Baki   +8 more
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Island-Grid-Study Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg

2015
2006 the International Building Exhibition (IBA) started in Hamburg under the device “Cities new building”. One Part of the IBA Program was “Cities in climate change”. In these part the question of combining climate protection with urban growth should be answered. For this, a working group started to develop the “Energy atlas for Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg”.
Lutzenberger, A.K., Peter, S.
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Lavender Islands

Journal of Homosexuality, 2007
Lavender Islands: Portrait of the Whole Family is the first national strengths-based study of lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) people in New Zealand. The 133-item survey was made available both by website and paper copy from April to July 2004. Multidisciplinary interest areas were developed by a community reference group, and included identity and ...
Henrickson, Mark, Neville, Stephen, Jordan, Claire, Donaghey, Sara   +3 more
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Resuspension Studies in the Marshall Islands

Health Physics, 1997
The contribution of inhalation exposure to the total dose for residents of the Marshall Islands was monitored at occasions of opportunity on several islands in the Bikini and Enewetak Atolls. To determine the long-term potential for inhalation exposure, and to understand the mechanisms of redistribution and personal exposure, additional investigations ...
J H, Shinn, D N, Homan, W L, Robison
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Microscale models and urban heat island studies: a systematic review

Environmental Monitoring & Assessment, 2023
Larissa Vieira Zezzo, Priscila Pereira Coltri, Vincent Dubreuil   +2 more
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Study of water quality at mangrove island: Case study of Carey Island

2010 International Conference on Science and Social Research (CSSR 2010), 2010
This paper reviews on the water quality for Carey Island which is one of the mangrove islands in Malaysia. The mangrove area has vital functions of its mangrove tress. In order to control and protect the level of contamination at this area, a study on water quality has been carried out.
Azinoor Azida Abu Bakar, Nurhafidzah Ahmad, Marfiah Ab. Wahid, Faezah Kamaruddin, Ismail Atan, Zahrullaili Yahya, Wardah Tahir, Juhaizad Ahmad, Aminuddin Baki   +8 more
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Study of soil contamination at mangrove Island: Case study of Carey Island

2012 IEEE 8th International Colloquium on Signal Processing and its Applications, 2012
This paper reviews on the soil condition for three rivers at Carey Island namely Air Hitam, Judah and Keluang River. The activities on the island such as palm oil industries are believed affect the soil. Thus a study was carried out to determine the parameters of pH value, total sulphates, chloride content, total organic carbon (TOC), inorganic carbon (
Azinoor Azida Abu Bakar, Nurhafidzah Ahmad, Marfiah Abdul Wahid, Faezah Kamaruddin, Ismail Atan, Zahrullaili Yahya, Wardah Tahir, Juhaizad Ahmad, Aminuddin Baki   +8 more
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Experimental Studies on Islands

1995
As we seek to understand the relationship between biological diversity and ecosystem processes, we often turn to islands because of their unique biota — impoverished, disharmonic, and alien-infested though it may be, there are still those who love it.
J. J. Ewel, P. Högberg
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Island Studies - a View from the Near Islands

2022
Once relatively asymmetrical and straightforward, the mainland–island relationship has become complex. Islands are commonly captured by wider mainland traffic, infrastructure, and economic and social networks. Once highly self-sustained and richly structured, island economies have been specialising and becoming increasingly dependent on mainland inputs,
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