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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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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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Seapower, geostrategic relations, and islandness: The World War II Destroyers for Bases deal

Island Studies Journal, 2020
The Destroyers for Bases deal was signed on March 27, 1941, and transferred fifty aging US destroyers to Great Britain in exchange for 99-year leases of bases on the British controlled islands of Newfoundland, Bermuda, Trinidad, Jamaica, Antigua, St ...
C. Flint
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Bursting the bubble : the pseudo- development strategies of microstates [PDF]

, 1993
Developing microstates are bountiful on the world political map today. Yet the concept of smallness, apart from being relativistic, conjures up a sense of deviation, indicative of a subtle discrimination which implicitly takes large to be normal and ...
Baldacchino, Godfrey
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Massive islands [PDF]

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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Comment l’île Maurice est-elle devenue Covid free ?

EchoGéo, 2021
After being affected by the COVID-19 epidemic in March 2020 and having implemented a whole series of sanitary measures, Mauritius has become, for more than ten months, one of the few Covid-free States on the planet, until a new epidemic wave hits it ...
Nathalie Bernardie-Tahir
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Territory, islandness, and the secessionist imaginary: Why do very small communities favour autonomy over integration?

, 2020
Small communities should have the most to gain from integration, but the average size of the state is shrinking as island nationalism creates new, and very small, states out of former colonies, and federalised or autonomous territories.
J. Corbett
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Islands and despots [PDF]

, 2012
This paper challenges a conventional wisdom: that when discussing political systems, small is democratic. And yet, can there be paradises without serpents?
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The diabetes epidemic in Malta [PDF]

, 2020
A note of appreciation and acknowledgement is forwarded to Professor Julian Mamo, Professor Josanne Vassallo and Professor Neville Calleja for their continuous support and advice during the academic progression.Aim: The small European Mediterranean ...
Cuschieri, Sarah
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Making the island. Islandness, carcerality and unstable containment at the southern Spanish border

Territory, Politics, Governance
How does an island become a carceral space? How does islandness shift between openness and foreclosure? Border geographers have engaged carcerality as a relational and expansive quality. Islands figure prominently in these discussions.
Lorena Gazzotti
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