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Island voices – island choices
Rietbergen, Simon Hammond, Tom Sayegh, Chucri Hesselink, Frits
Rietbergen, Simon
Hammond, Tom
Sayegh, Chucri
Hesselink, Frits
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"In effect, islands are rapidly becoming the world’s “canaries in the coal mine” of global change, laboratories for tracking the results of the stresses placed on ecosystems through development, and on the services these ecosystems provide. The fate of the world’s small island developing states may well be indicative of the consequences of the economic path we are following, and also of the solutions to address these challenges. Following a call from the IUCN Membership, IUCN (The International Union for Conservation of Nature) in partnership with the Italian Government launched an initiative beginning in early 2006 to explore a programme of work for ecosystem management and restoration in small island developing states (SIDS). The initiative examined the socio-economic and environmental challenges facing islands, and the efforts over the past 20 years within the international community to address these challenges, surveyed the views of island residents and other key informants globally – both within and outside the traditional environmental community – and began scoping the most appropriate niche for IUCN in an island-focused conservation programme. The report which follows is the result of this effort." (p. 8)
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2008
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9782831710303
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