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020			_a9781138921726
040			_aKenya National Library Service
082			_a910.9142 ISL
245			_aIsland geographies : _bessays and conversations / _cedited by Elaine Stratford.
300			_axiii, 198 pages : _billustrations, _c24 cm.
490			_aRoutledge Studies in Human Geography
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aIslands 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.
650			_aGeography.
650			_aHuman geography.
650			_aTravel
700			_aStratford, Elaine _eEditor
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