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“laboratories for the study of tourism, and Evans (1973) used the same rationale to argue for the study of cultural practices on islands. Biologists, ecologists, and biogeographers have repeatedly pointed to the outcomes of endemism, including dwarfism and giantism, as a function of the isolation of islands and the closed nature of island environments (Carlquist 1974).”
― An Introduction to Island Studies
― An Introduction to Island Studies
“Historically, the prevailing description of islands is one of isolation and peripherality. Islands have also been described as bounded, where the definitive boundary between land and water serves as a natural and perceptual barrier between what takes place on an island and what takes place elsewhere in the world (Hay 2003a; Royle 2001).”
― An Introduction to Island Studies
― An Introduction to Island Studies
“Vulnerability and Resilience Islands have been portrayed and judged throughout history, in Baldacchino’s words, “by what they don’t have” (2007, 14), including people, natural resources, or competitive advantages that limit their opportunities”
― An Introduction to Island Studies
― An Introduction to Island Studies
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