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Luisa Maria Diele-Viegas,Carlos Frederico Duarte Rocha
The Fernando de Noronha archipelago is a key site for biodiversity conservation, besides being one of the most searched destinies for ecotourism in Brazil. We present the first study focusing on the evaluation of this important archipelago?s exposure to ...
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José C. Ferreira, Renato Monteiro, Lia Vasconcelos, Cláudio M. Duarte, Filipa Ferreira and Euclides Santos
Marine litter has been considered one of the most serious global challenges, requiring urgent action by governmental bodies, especially in African Small Island Developing States (SIDS), where resources and research are limited. In addition to this, waste...
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rani hafsaridewi,Achmad Fahrudin,Sulistiono Sulistiono,Dewayany Sutrisno,Sonny Koeshendrajana
Pág. 527 - 540
Resilience is a concept that cannot be generalized. This is because in analyzing resilience, the parameters that have been used for the resilience analysis is depend on the resilience context itself. It is important to establish which parameters are most...
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Roshina Babu, Namsik Park, Sunkwon Yoon and Taaniela Kula
Sustainable management of small island freshwater resources requires an understanding of the extent of freshwater lens and local effects of pumping. In this study, a methodology based on a sharp interface approach is developed for regional and well scale...
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Renata Dos Santos Cardoso, Larissa Piffer Dorigon, Danielle Cardozo Frasca Teixeira and Margarete Cristiane de Costa Trindade Amorim
Urban heat islands (UHIs) in large cities and different climatic regions have been thoroughly studied; however, their effects are becoming a common concern in smaller cities as well. We assessed UHIs in three tropical cities, analyzing how synoptic condi...
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Fenri Abraham Stevi Tupamahu
Pág. 378 - 389
TTourism has become one of the leading sectors in the Indonesian national economy and has become an important sector in contributing to the country's foreign exchange. This study aims to 1) identify and test the effect of entrepreneurial characteristics ...
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Meyske A. Rahantoknam,Wellem A. Teniwut,Anna M. Ngabalin
Pág. 137 - 144
The traditional micro-retailing market its existence today threatened by the strong penetration of supermarkets, the condition does not occur only in big cities in developed country but also in development country such as rural coastal area. In order to ...
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Dario Ambrosini, Giorgio Galli, Biagio Mancini, Iole Nardi and Stefano Sfarra
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Julia Merino, Carlos Veganzones, Jose A. Sanchez, Sergio Martinez and Carlos A. Platero
Massive integration of renewable energy sources in electrical power systems of remote islands is a subject of current interest. The increasing cost of fossil fuels, transport costs to isolated sites and environmental concerns constitute a serious drawbac...
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Silvia Rescic, Fabio Fratini and Daniela Pittaluga
The Tuscan Archipelago lies between the Ligurian Sea to the north and the Tyrrhenian Sea to the south and between Corsica to the west and the Tuscan coast to the east. It is made up of seven major islands, Elba, Giglio, Capraia, Montecristo, Pianosa, Gia...
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Elis Dener Lima Alves and António Lopes
This study analyzes the influence of urban-geographical variables on determining heat islands and proposes a model to estimate and spatialize the maximum intensity of urban heat islands (UHI). Simulations of the UHI based on the increase of normalized di...
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Jessica Noske-Turner,Jo Tacchi
Pág. pp. 59 - 69 pgs.
The Pacific Islands are home to diverse and fast-changing media and communication infrastructures and practices. In this article we examine the Pacific Media Assistance Scheme (PACMAS) Innovation Fund, which has opened up the media and communication for ...
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Achmad Nasir Biasane,Akhmad Fauzi,Daniel R. Monintja,Dedi Soedharma
Pág. 37
One of the potency for development of Sangihe Islands is sea and the availability of fish resources which is relatively high, both in terms of quantity and diversity. One of the fish types with high quantity in this area are pelagic fish group. This rese...
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Yinfeng Xu, Xiaohui Liu, Feng Zhou, Xueen Chen, Ruijie Ye and Dake Chen
Upwelling is a widespread phenomenon in the ocean and plays key roles in the marine environment, marine fishery and air?sea carbon exchange. In coastal regions, the upwelling is usually modulated by tides and complex topography, but the dynamical mechani...
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Ian White, Tony Falkland and Taaniela Kula
UN Sustainable Development Goal 6 challenges small island developing states such as the Kingdom of Tonga, which relies on variable rainwater and fragile groundwater lenses for freshwater supply. Meeting water needs in dispersed small islands under change...
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Christian Pfeifer, Andres Barbosa, Osama Mustafa, Hans-Ulrich Peter, Marie-Charlott Rümmler and Alexander Brenning
Antarctic marine ecosystems undergo enormous changes, presumably due to climate change and fishery. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have an unprecedented potential for measuring these changes by mapping indicator species such as penguins even in remote a...
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Brandon L. Barkey and Ryan T. Bailey
Groundwater resources of small coral islands are threatened due to short-term and long-term changes in climate. A significant short-term threat is El Niño events, which typically induce a severe months-long drought for many atoll nations in the western a...
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Cecep Kusmana,Sukristijiono Sukristijiono
Pág. 217
Indonesia is an archipelagic country of more than 17,504 islands (28 big islands and 17,475 small islands) with the length of coastline estimated at 95,181 km, which bears mangroves from several meters to several kilometers. They are estimated at 3.2 mil...
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Valentina V. Kasyan
The Southern Ocean has undergone significant climate-related changes in recent decades. As a result, pelagic communities inhabiting these waters, particularly mesozooplankton, have adapted to new conditions. The present study considers the patterns of ho...
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