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Saltwater Chronicles: reading representational spaces in selected book clubs in St. John's, Newfoundland [PDF]
Island Studies Journal, 2010 Saltwater Chronicles investigates the notion of “islandness” in contemporary Newfoundland readership through two in-depth case studies of book clubs as representational spaces in the elaboration of local knowledge and identities.
Jennifer Rottmann +2 more
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How far can one go? : how distance matters in island development [PDF]
, 2020 Island development trajectories are heavily impacted by their relevance, similarity, complementarity and value in relation to continental development pathways.
Baldacchino, Godfrey
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A Sea Uprooted: Islandness and Political Identity on Chiloé Island, Chile
Island Studies Journal, 2019 In 2016, the people of Chiloé, an island in Southern Chile, mobilised against the Chilean state for a period of over three weeks. The conflict was triggered by an environmental crisis that affected the main economic activities of the island: salmon ...
Beatriz Bustos, Álvaro Román
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Tourism industry responses to public-private partnership arrangements for destination management organisations in small island economies: a case study of Jersey, Channel Islands [PDF]
, 2017 Since the 1970s, in many developed countries, governance arrangements for tourism have been revised in response to significant challenges faced by national economies and the associated changing political contexts.
Chaperon, Samantha
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Journal of High Energy Physics, 1999 An erroneous example removed.
Dabholkar, Atish, Harvey, Jeffrey A.
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Current Biology, 2021 Islands have fascinated biologists since the days of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace and before, providing the inspiration for substantial theoretical development that has advanced our understanding of global biodiversity patterns and the mechanisms that underpin them.
Matthews, T.J., Triantis, K.
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Extreme tourism : lessons from the world's cold water islands [PDF]
, 2006 This book is a pioneering investigation of the tourism practices in the world's other, cold water, islands. Located in extreme latitudes and subject to extreme weather conditions, these islands have been developing their tourism appeal in manners that ...
Baldacchino, Godfrey
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Reviewing the impact of the Confederation Bridge [PDF]
, 2007 Islands are the challenging targets of a global pursuit in the closing of gaps, their distinct geography so far having seemingly eluded and mocked both human ingenuity and terra firma.
BAHN +88 more
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Journal of High Energy Physics, 2020 Abstract We comment on the role of the graviton mass in recent calculations of the Page curve using holographic ideas. All reliable calculations of the Page curve in more than 2+1 spacetime dimensions have been performed in systems with massive gravitons.
Geng, Hao, Karch, Andreas
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Island community: identity formulation via acceptance through the environment in Saaremaa, Estonia [PDF]
Island Studies Journal, 2017 This paper examines normative concepts of community identity expressed by inhabitants of Saaremaa Island, Estonia, via 20 interviews of permanent residents.
Jana Raadik Cottrell
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