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Small Islands and Islets: Laboratories or Key Sensors for Environmental Policies in the Mediterranean Basin? 小岛屿和小岛：地中海盆地环境政策的实验室或关键传感器？

IF 1.7 2区社会学

Island Studies Journal Pub Date : 2024-07-18 DOI: 10.24043/001c.120295

Orianne Crouteix

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The Time-Space Regimes of Human Mobility in the North Atlantic Island Spaces (Iceland, Azores, Madeira, the Canary Islands, and Cape Verde) 北大西洋岛屿空间（冰岛、亚速尔群岛、马德拉群岛、加那利群岛和佛得角）人类流动的时空制度

IF 1.7 2区社会学

Island Studies Journal Pub Date : 2024-07-18 DOI: 10.24043/001c.120293

Luis Manuel Jerez-Darias, Josefina Domínguez-Mujica

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The Correlation Between Asian Port Cities and Traditional Portuguese Urban Forms Based on Map and Machine Learning Analyses 基于地图和机器学习分析的亚洲港口城市与葡萄牙传统城市形态之间的相关性

IF 1.5 2区社会学

Island Studies Journal Pub Date : 2024-06-13 DOI: 10.24043/001c.118786

Yile Chen, Liang Zheng, Jianyi Zheng

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The Bubble Metropolis: Manhattan Island Crises in Contemporary Science Fiction 泡沫大都会：当代科幻小说中的曼哈顿岛危机当代科幻小说中的曼哈顿岛危机

IF 1.5 2区社会学

Island Studies Journal Pub Date : 2024-03-27 DOI: 10.24043/001c.94618

Wang Liao

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Provincializing Island Poetics: The Personal as the Spatial in N S Madhavan’s Litanies of Dutch Battery 岛屿诗学的省籍化：N S Madhavan 的《荷兰炮台之歌》中的个人与空间

IF 1.5 2区社会学

Island Studies Journal Pub Date : 2024-03-13 DOI: 10.24043/001c.94614

Soni Wadhwa, Jintu Alias

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Regionalizing the Sustainable Development Goals for Island Societies: Lessons From Iceland and Newfoundland 岛屿社会可持续发展目标的区域化：冰岛和纽芬兰的经验教训

IF 1.5 2区社会学

Island Studies Journal Pub Date : 2024-03-09 DOI: 10.24043/001c.94616

Mark C. J. Stoddart, Ásthildur E. Bernharðsdóttir, Yixi Yang

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The Entrepreneurial Process in a Remote Island Context: The Case of Madeira 偏远岛屿环境中的创业过程：马德拉岛案例

IF 1.5 2区社会学

Island Studies Journal Pub Date : 2024-01-27 DOI: 10.24043/001c.90535

Carmen Freitas

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Social Psychological Perspectives on Islandness: Identities, Vulnerabilities and Precarities 从社会心理学角度看岛屿性：身份、脆弱性和风险

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Island Studies Journal Pub Date : 2024-01-27 DOI: 10.24043/001c.92155

Kate Matheson, Chris Pawson, Peter Clegg

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Islandness and Appreciating the Importance of the Rule of Law in a 21st Century Island Context: The Case of the Isle of Man 21 世纪岛屿背景下的岛屿性与认识法治的重要性：马恩岛案例

IF 1.5 2区社会学

Island Studies Journal Pub Date : 2024-01-27 DOI: 10.24043/001c.92262

Kate Farrant Shaw

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Distant Country, Paradise, Wilderness, or Mysterious World: The Changing Image of the South Sea (Nan’yō) Islands in Japanese Science Fiction 遥远国度、天堂、荒野或神秘世界：日本科幻小说中不断变化的南海（南洋）群岛形象

IF 1.5 2区社会学

Island Studies Journal Pub Date : 2023-12-08 DOI: 10.24043/001c.90560

Hui Jiang, Lin Cheng, Nengying Chen

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