Anne Buttimer (Former President of IGU, Professor of Geography, University College Dublin, Ireland): Sustainable Landscapes and Island Lifeways: Questions of Scale and Appropriateness

   

Ronald F. Abler (Vice President, International Geographical Union): New Dimensions of Geographical Research – Island Geographies and Indigenous Geographies

   

Godfrey Baldacchino (Canada Research Chair in Island Studies, University of Prince Edward Island, Canada): The Study of Islands on their Own Terms: Origins, Challenges and Implications

   

Steve Royle (Reader in Geography and Director of Centre of Canadian Studies, Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK): Insularity and Small Island Geographies

   

Beate Ratter (Professor of Economic and Cultural Geography, Johannes Gutenberg-University of Mainz, Germany): Global Change and its Implication for Small Islands

   

Eric Clark (Professor and Head of the Department of Social and Economic Geography, Lund University, Sweden):  Island Gentrification: On Island Social Geographies

   

Elaine Stratford (Head of School of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Tasmania, Australia): The Geography of Island Children- Young Islanders and the Constitution of Sense of Place 

   

Randy Thaman (Professor of Pacific Island Biogeography, Department of Geography, The University of the South Pacific, Fiji): Island Ethnobodiversity: The Foundation for the Survival of Island Life

   

Gerard Persoon (Professor and Head of the Department of Environment and Development, Institute of Environmental Sciences CML, Leiden University, the Netherlands): Managing the Natural Resources of Southeast Asian Islands: Contemporary Perspectives 

   

Costis Hadjimichalis (Professor and Head of the Department of Geography, Harokopio University of Athens, Greece): Beyond mass holiday destinations: Mediterranean islands as places of exile and borders/fences

   

Philip Steinberg (Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA): Geographic Thought at the Ocean-Island Interface: Beyond "Empty" Oceans and "Insular" Islands

   

Jack Williams (Professor Emeritus, Department of Geography, Michigan State University): Environmental Hazards Management – A Case Study of Mountain Highway Construction on the Island Taiwan

   

Antoni-Albert Artigues (Geography Department,  Balearic University, Spain): Tourism, migration flows and citizenship in the West Mediterranean Islands

   

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