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Economic Vulnerability and Resilience of Small Island States [PDF]
Island Studies Journal, 2007 This essay assesses the principles of economic vulnerability and resilience and their contribution to the study and development of small island developing states (SIDS). It is based on a detailed critical account of the contents of a recent publication -
Te’o I. J. Fairbairn
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Global Warming and Displacement: Challenges and Solutions in the Maldives
Revista Tecnológica, 2022 For Small Island Developing States such as the Maldives, climate change poses an existential threat to the future and welfare of their countries’ populations.
Roma Beke
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Determinants of Tourism Flows in Small Island Developing States (SIDS)
Island Studies Journal, 2019 This paper analyses factors affecting arrivals of international tourists into countries denoted as Small Island Developing States (SIDS). These destinations are paired to all potential countries of origin for which the data was available in the UNWTO ...
Pavla Vítová +2 more
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A review of international trade and investment agreements and nutrition policy space in the Pacific
Frontiers in Nutrition, 2023 Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in the Pacific are heavily reliant on imported foods which are often nutritionally deficient, and typically high in salt, fat, and sugar.
Noah Bunkley +2 more
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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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Seizing history: development and non-climate change in Small Island Developing States [PDF]
International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management, 2018 Purpose – This paper offers a critical review of climate change related initiatives in small island states, including Small Island Developing States (SIDS), which can end up as ontological traps: fuelled and supported by external donor agencies ...
Godfrey Baldacchino
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Linking ecosystem services and the Sustainable Development Goals in Small Island Developing States: the case of Aruba [PDF]
One Ecosystem, 2021 The economy and well-being in Small Island Developing States (SIDS) and other Subnational Island Jurisdictions (SNIJ) highly rely on marine and coastal ecosystem services (ESS). Moreover, SIDS and SNIJ share common challenges in achieving the Sustainable
Elena Palacios +5 more
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Topographic and thematic (in)visibility of Small Island Developing States in a world map
Journal of Maps, 2020 Many world maps visualize global data to represent the statistical and spatial relationships among countries. These maps are typically printed in reports or displayed online at a small scale. At such scale, small nations are difficult to perceive or even
Jessica Gosling-Goldsmith +2 more
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More Than Just SIDS: Local Solutions for Global Problems on Small Islands
Island Studies Journal, 2019 Small islands are often taken as poster children for climate change vulnerability, and their status as hotspots of climate change impacts has been widely acknowledged in the scientific literature.
Jan Petzold, Beate M. Ratter
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Climate Risk Management, 2022 Small island developing states (SIDS) are recognized as being among the most vulnerable countries to climate change—many are highly exposed and sensitive to, inter alia, sea-level rise and increased intensity storms, yet often lack the human and ...
Ellis Kalaidjian, Stacy-ann Robinson
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