Island Studies Journal – Vol. 11, No. 1
May 2016

• Front Cover
• Table of Contents

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Scholarly Papers

Thematic Section I: Sustainable development and environmental conservation in the Outermost European Regions (Guest Editor: Artur Gil)

• Editorial introduction to thematic section
  Artur Gil
• Tools for the sustainability assessment in insular socio-ecological systems
  Isabel Banos-González, Julia Martínez-Fernández and Miguel Ángel Esteve
• In the Azores, looking for the regions of knowing
  Alison Laurie Neilson, Carlos de Bulhão Pato, Rosalina Gabriel, Ana Moura Arroz, Enésima Mendonça  and Ana Picanço
• Understanding and mapping local conflicts related to protected areas in small islands: a case study of the Azores archipelago
  Chiara Bragagnolo, Margarida Pereira, Kiat Ng and Helena Calado
• Urban-touristic impacts in the aeolian sedimentary systems of the Canary Islands: conflict between development and conservation
  Leví García Romero,  Antonio I. Hernández-Cordero, Elisabeth Fernández-Cabrera, Carolina Peña-Alonso, Luis Hernández-Calvento and Emma Pérez-Chacón
• Aridity, desalination plants and tourism in the eastern Canary Islands
  José-León García Rodríguez, Francisco J. García-Rodríguez and Carlos Castilla Gutiérrez

Thematic Section II: Papers from the Excellence Network of Island Territories (RETI) meetings in Orkney, June 2015. (Guest Editor: James E. Randall)

• Editorial introduction to thematic section: Papers from the Excellence Network of Island Territories (RETI) meetings, Orkney, June 2015
  James E. Randall
• A man and his island: the island mirror in island fiction
  Laurie Brinklow
• Islands erased by snow and ice: approaching the spatial philosophy of cold-water island fictions
  Johannes Riquet
• Evaluating the impact of agritourism on local development in small islands
  Sofia Karampela, Thanasis Kizos and Ioannis Spilanis
• Migration, education and employment decisions of islanders: understanding the role of sociocultural factors in shaping individual decisions and economic outcomes in Orkney and Shetland
  Rosie Alexander
• Good work? Scottish cultural workers’ narratives about working and living on islands
  Lynda Harling Stalker and Kathryn A. Burnett

Other Scholarly Papers

• Assessing the tangible and intangible benefits of tourism: perceptions of economic, social, and cultural impacts in Labrador’s Battle Harbour Historic District
  Howard Ramos, Mark Stoddart and David Chafe
• Innovation in island ecotourism in different contexts: Yakushima (Japan) and Tahiti and its Islands
  Anne-Marie d’Hauteserre and Carolin Funck
• Tourism as the development driver of Easter Island: the key role of resident perceptions
  Eugenio Figueroa B. and Elena S. Rotarou
• Governance of ecosystem services on small islands: three contrasting cases for St. Eustatius in the Dutch Caribbean
  Nico Polman, Stijn Reinhard, Linde van Bets and Tom Kuhlman

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 Review Essays

• Beyond the island of metrics: a comment on Stratford’s ten years of Island Studies Journal
  Joshua Nash
• Urban growth and cultural identity: fractures and imbalances with the value of heritage: the case of Saint-Louis of Senegal, Africa
  Lucía Martínez-Quintana and Eduardo Cáceres-Morales
• The Beagle Conflict
  Peter van Aert
• The 2015 Paris Climate Agreement: outcomes and their impacts on small island states
  Darren Hoad

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Book Reviews

• Japan’s border issues: Pitfalls and prospects by Akihiro Iwashita. (reviewer: Godfrey Baldacchino)
• Islands of identity: History writing and identity formation in five island regions in the Baltic Sea by Samuel Edquist & Janne Holmén. (reviewer: Atina Nihtinen)
• Niue 1774–1974: 200 years of contact and change by Margaret Pointer. (reviewer: Linda Austin)
• Malta: Women, history, books and places by Susanna Hoe. (reviewer: Yosanne Vella)
• L’ile, regards orientaux: Varia orientalia, biblica et antiqua by Acta Orientalia Belgica. (reviewer: Jean Marie Breton)
• Planet/Cuba: Art, culture and the future of the island by Rachel Price. (reviewer: James P. Warren)
• Mondes clos: Les îles by Daniel Barbu, Nicolas Meylan and Youri Volokhine (Eds.). (reviewer: Johannes Riquet)
• Expedición al México de ultramar by Víctor Busteros; Estrategias de adaptación en las Islas Marías by Nelson Álvarez & María de la Luz Sevilla; Clipperton by Pablo Raphael. (reviewer: Jesús Israel Baxin Martínez)

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• Back Cover

Journal Issue Cover – Fajã de Santo Cristo, on São Jorge Island, Azores, Portugal. © 2016: Professor Paulo A.V. Borges, University of the Azores, Portugal. Reproduced with permission.