Geography of Islands - Small Island Insularity

Informationen zum Autor Stephen A.Royle is a Senior Lecturer in Geography at Queen’s University, Belfast. He has researched on islands around the world, originally inspired by a holiday visit to Dursey Island, County Cork, Ireland. Klappentext First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Zusammenfassung This book gives a comprehensive survey of 'islandness' and its defining features. It considers how islands' small scale, isolation and often lack of resources have affected them in the present day and in the past. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Islands: dreams and realities 2 Islands: their formation and nature 3 Insularity: processes and effects 4 Islands in the past 5 Islands: people and migration 6 Islands: communications and services 7 Politics and small islands 8 Making a living: island economies in the contemporary period 9 Islands of dreams: tourism, the universal panacea for island problems? 10 Conclusion: St Helena wins again

Product details

• Authors: Stephen A. Royle, Royle Stephen A.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.02.2001
• EAN: 9781857288650
• ISBN: 978-1-85728-865-0
• No. of pages: 248
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, Human Geography