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Climate Change and Small Island Developing States
Annual Review Environment and Resources, 2020 Despite their heterogeneity, small island developing states (SIDS) are recognized as being particularly at risk to climate change, and, as they share numerous common traits, the United Nations recognizes them as a special group.
Adelle Thomas +4 more
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Small Island Developing States and their suitability for electric vehicles and vehicle-to-grid services [PDF]
, 2018 Small Island Developing States (SIDS), while at the forefront of international climate action, face a number of development challenges linked to their historic, geographic and socio-economic characteristics.
Gay, Destine +2 more
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Enhancing the Precision of Mangrove Area Estimation by Incorporating Canopy Gaps in UAV Methodologies [PDF]
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information SciencesOne such coastal ecosystem that has various importance is mangrove. They provide biodiversity support, coastal protection, and carbon sequestration. One problem not well researched and known for accurate monitoring of mangrove forests is often hindered ...
M. A. Muqorrabin +3 more
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Bistability in the Shape Transition of Strained Islands [PDF]
, 2007 The equilibrium shape of a monatomic strained island on a substrate depends on the step free energies and the difference in surface stress between the island and the substrate.
Gastel, R. van, Zandvliet, H.J.W.
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UAV-Based Assessment of Rainwater Harvesting and Clean Water Management on a Small Island in Indonesia [PDF]
ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information SciencesThis study investigates the utilization of rainwater harvesting systems and their effectiveness in meeting domestic and educational water needs on Bonetambung Island.
S. T. Aushaf +7 more
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Six-proposition manifesto for small Island territories [PDF]
, 2000 Conventional wisdom suggests that small, often island, states are more likely than larger nations to be hard hit by the effects of national disasters, of fluctuations in the global economy, and the political aspirations of world powers.
Baldacchino, Godfrey
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The costs of removing the unsanctioned import of marine plastic litter to small island states
Scientific Reports, 2020 Small island states receive unprecedented amounts of the world’s plastic waste. In March 2019, we removed as much plastic litter as possible from Aldabra Atoll, a remote UNESCO World Heritage Site, and estimated the money and effort required to remove ...
April J. Burt +23 more
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Islands contribute disproportionately high amounts of evolutionary diversity in passerine birds [PDF]
, 2015 Island systems generally have fewer species than continental areas due to their small size and geographical isolation. Low island diversity reduces the possibility of exportation of island lineages and island systems are not thought to have a major ...
Holt, BG, Jonsson, K
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Italian Journal of Agronomy, 2011 As occurred on many other small Mediterranean islands, agricultural activity at Lampedusa (Strait of Sicily) underwent a very strong decline in terms of surface area during the second half of the last century.
Tommaso La Mantia +3 more
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Jurnal Agrisep, 2008 Small Islands are potential area to be developed becoming tourism area. Jemaja Island as one of the small islands have potency to be able to be developed, which recognized with Padang Melang area.
Indra Cahyadinata
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