https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/39074 2026-04-09T16:26:27Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/39692 Title: Islands and sustainable development Authors: Streeten, Paul Abstract: The first Global Conference on the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States (SIDS) convened in Barbados in 1994. The purpose of the gathering was to examine national and international strategies, and adopt plans and programmes intended to enable these territories and their limited resources to undergo development in a sustainable manner, while enhancing in them the coping mechanisms and human skills necessary to pursue sustainable development. The Barbados Conference was a spinoff from the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development - known as the Earth Summit - which met in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. The purpose of the Summit was to debate a challenging list of pressing environmental issues known as Agenda 21, and follow this up with the implementation of an action plan. Description: Includes Notes on Contributors, Index, and Summary on back cover. 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/39323 Title: Considerations for small island development today Authors: Doumenge, Francois Abstract: The 1992 gathering in Prince Edward Island sought to understand the critical problems currently facing small islands, along with their future trends. I wish now to draw attention to certain issues that remained somewhat neglected in the course of our debates there. Please excuse me if! disclose some uncomfortable truths in the process. I shall refer not only to cases presented in the session lectures, but also to my personal experiences as a French citizen who spent a significant part of his professional life in many tropical islands in the Caribbean, the South Pacific, and the Southwest Indian Ocean. 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/39321 Title: Far better to serve in heaven than reign in hell : Malta's logic of relating to the European Union Authors: Baldacchino, Godfrey Abstract: Milton's Satan serves conveniently as a symbol of defiant nationalism. He is the prototype rebel against global hegemonic forces; he is bent on sovereignty, freedom, and delinking strategies, at any cost. Entrusted with economic planning in Chaos, he would no doubt have sought self-sustained growth and viability. But for all his superhuman flamboyance, Milton's cosmic villain is seeped in compassionate irony, a mock-heroism that results from me blindness of being ostracized from God Almighty. Independence is proudly claimed but nevertheless sounds hollow. It is a reckless initiative, an expression not of gain, but of loss of stature and in the quality of life. 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/39320 Title: Strategies of development for small island territories of the North Atlantic : common sense versus good sense [Introduction] Authors: Baldacchino, Godfrey; Greenwood, Rob Abstract: In 1992, the European Community was experiencing the full measure of the effects of the barrier-free single European internal market and bracing itself for the implications of the Maastricht agreement, envisaged to see the EC move closer to a European Union. At the same time, Canada, the United States, and Mexico were seeing through the legislative processes that would bring N AFT A into force come January 1993. Nudged betwixt these two mega -developments, islanders from the broad North Atlantic region met to discuss the political, economic, and cultural sense of their contemporary identity. Description: Includes Table of Contents, and Preface to the Series by Barry Bartmann. 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z