Shaping the Future of Small Islands

PART I: ECONOMIC CONCERNS.- Chapter 1: Macroeconomic trends, vulnerability and resilience capability of SIDS.- Chapter 2: Development strategies for the vulnerable SIDS.- Chapter 3: Global developments and sustainability of small islands.- Chapter 4: Trade Policy, Innovation Governance and the Small Island Developing States: Perspectives and Policies for the Pacific and the Caribbean.- PART II: SOCIAL DIMENSIONS.- Chapter 5: Democracy, social empowerment and small island jurisdictions.- Chapter 6: Social capital and policies for social cohesion: Small island perspective.- Chapter 7: Ageing population and sustainable social safety nets in Mauritius.- Chapter 8: Disease environment and health policy response in SIDS.- Chapter 9: Designing sustainable employment policies in small islands: A case study of the Island of Fiji.- PART III: CLIMATE CHANGE AND NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT.- Chapter 10: Responding to climate change in small islands: Economic perspective.- Chapter 11: Overseas development assistance and climate resilience for SIDS: Case Study of Tonga.- Chapter 12: Global climate change and the myth of international cooperation.- Chapter 13: Improving sustainability through assessment of natural disasters.- PART IV: ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE AND CASE STUDIES.- Chapter 14: Promoting blue economy.- Chapter 15: Environmental human health and ecosystem vitality: SIDS Vs Non-SIDS.- Chapter 16: Overtourism and small islands with special reference to the Maltese Islands.- Chapter 17: Dynamics of deforestation in Solomon Islands: The need for restoration and conservation alternatives.- PART V: GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT.- Chapter 18: Global development finance for sustainable development of small islands.- Chapter 19: SIDS and international development: Transition from Transition from MDGs to SDGs.- Chapter 20: Assessing the progress of environmental governance.- Chapter 21: Overcoming insularity by improving connectivity between islands and beyond.