What are the distinctive challenges faced by small non-sovereign islands?

Podcast: Small Islands Big Picture · ODI Resilient and Sustainable Islands Initiative (RESI)

Opublikowano: 2023-09-06

In this episode, Emily and Matt discuss a special group of small islands: non-independent territories or "sub-national island jurisdictions" (SNIJs). They explain the great diversity that exists amongst these non-sovereign islands in terms of levels of development and depth of integration with metropolitan powers like Britain, France, the Netherlands and the United States. Professor Jack Corbett, RESI Co-Director and Head of the School of Social Sciences at Monash University in Australia, talks about the trade-offs and tensions that typify life as a SNIJ. In "Island Voices", we hear from Dr Genève Phillip, Interim Provost and Vice-President of...