Island Geographies: Essays and conversations Contributor(s): Stratford, Elaine (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1138339350 ISBN-13: 9781138339354 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $54.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2018 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Human Geography - Science | Earth Sciences - Geography - Travel |
Dewey: 910.914 |
Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography |
Physical Information: 0.45" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.67 lbs) 212 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Islands and their environs - aerial, terrestrial, aquatic - may be understood as intensifiers, their particular and distinctive geographies enabling concentrated study of many kinds of challenges and opportunities. This edited collection brings together several emerging and established academics with expertise in island studies, as well as interest in geopolitics, governance, adaptive capacity, justice, equity, self-determination, environmental care and protection, and land management. Individually and together, their perspectives provide theoretically useful, empirically grounded evidence of the contributions human geographers can make to knowledge and understanding of island places and the place of islands. Nine chapters engage with the themes, issues, and ideas that characterise the borderlands between island studies and human geography and allied fields, and are contributed by authors for whom matters of place, space, environment, and scale are key, and for whom islands hold an abiding fascination. The penultimate chapter is rather more experimental - a conversation among these authors and the editor - while the last chapter offers timely reflections upon island geographies' past and future, penned by the first named professor of island geography, Stephen Royle. |