Our post today related to make efforts about how to improve strategies for island sustainability and wellbeing. In order to improve the welfare of people in a small island, it would require a strategy of sustainable development of small islands. Some related references I have collected and collated into this article you are reading today.
Strategies for island sustainability and wellbeing background: Three variables stand out as central to insularity: size, distance to a continental mainland and intensity of contact and exchange with other places. Other things being equal, the smaller, the more insular – with Manhattan and Greenland underlining the weight of ‘other things equal’ (Eric Clarke:2004).
According to Robert McArthur and E.O. Wilson at The Theory of Island Biogeography
(1967) Princeton Press,There are three main factors that could explain the biodiversity of islands: Immigration , Emigration and Extinction.
Biocultural geography holds considerable potential to contribute to our understanding of processes of globalisation and how these are involved in generating and linking ‘the sixth extinction’ – the first such marked fall in biodiversity generated by the dominion and activities of one species – and the ‘extinction of experience’, associated with a coeval decline in cultural diversity, most obviously manifested in the death of languages. (Clark, 2004: 285).
Jared Diamond also said at his paper: How Societies choose to fail or succeed (2005) Viking Press, there were factors that determine whether societies (in general) sustain or collapse: The degree and nature of the damage that human societies inflict on their environment ; Climate change; Degree and nature of hostility of neighbouring societies; Degree and nature of support from neighbouring societies; And the nature and effectiveness of society’s response to the above factors.
Professor Philip Hayward from Southern Cross University, Australia describe Ten factors that determine whether the social and cultural heritages of islands can sustain and/or develop themselves:
1-The socio-economic and resource stability of the region (eg food security, stable environment} and capacity for access to development and/or crisis assistance when necessary.
2-The degree of consciousness of there being a distinct local cultural and/or environmental heritage that has value to the local community.
3-The scale and impact of external cultural influences (eg economic globalisation, immigration etc. The greater these are; generally, the greater the displacement of traditional cultures).
4-The nature of established local communities’ engagement with external influences and cultural change .
5-The extent to which culture, landscape and the natural environment can be utilised as an economic asset (and/or a form of ‘cultural capital’).
6-The nature of diasporic communities, their various retention and/or loss of ‘home’ island culture and the nature of their influence on/interaction with home islands.
7-The degree that neighbouring locations and/or regional/national groupings value, validate and support local cultures plus how they do this.
8-The degree that local cultures can deploy the above to refresh and/or innovate local cultures (and so provide a local alternative to received cultures and forms or practices that can be disseminated more widely).
9-The amount of influence that local communities can exercise on regional, national and international policy and planning.
10-The extent to which regional and national governments recognise regional issues and actively support local autonomy in key areas.
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