• Islands and sustainable development 

  Streeten, Paul (Institute of Island Studies, University of Prince Edward Island, 1998)

  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 ...
• Considerations for small island development today 

  Doumenge, Francois (Institute of Island Studies, University of Prince Edward Island, 1998)

  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 ...
• Far better to serve in heaven than reign in hell : Malta's logic of relating to the European Union 

  Baldacchino, Godfrey (Institute of Island Studies, University of Prince Edward Island, 1998)

  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 ...
• Strategies of development for small island territories of the North Atlantic : common sense versus good sense [Introduction] 

  Baldacchino, Godfrey; Greenwood, Rob (Institute of Island Studies, University of Prince Edward Island, 1998)

  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 ...
• Dependency and development in Prince Edward Island 

  MacKinnon, Wayne (Institute of Island Studies, University of Prince Edward Island, 1998)

  Even the official motto belies its aspirations. The motto of Prince Edward Island, Parva sub ingenti, "The small under the protection of the great," is an apt metaphor for Canada's smallest province. It is also a bitterly ...
• Accident or design? : the role of the state in Jersey's development as an offshore finance centre 

  Hampton, Mark (Institute of Island Studies, University of Prince Edward Island, 1998)

  The island of Jersey has been an Offshore Finance Centre (OFC) for over thirty years and is in competition with many other island OFCs, both in the North Atlantic area and globally. Conventional wisdom, or the ...
• A remarkable resilience : political and bureaucratic impediments to economic development - a case study of Newfoundland and Labrador 

  House, John Douglas (Institute of Island Studies, University of Prince Edward Island, 1998)

  The machinery of the state in its various forms has a habit of looming larger than life in most small island territories. The accident of geography implies a natural disposition for the insular territory to require ...
• Organizing production : opportunities and threats for Newfoundland 

  Greenwood, Rob (Institute of Island Studies, University of Prince Edward Island, 1998)

  Innovations in the organization of production in peripheral localities promise to create economically sustainable development if emerging firm strategies are harnessed and co-ordinated. Changes in transportation ...
• Offshore oil and economic development : a Newfoundland perspective 

  Shrimpton, Mark (Institute of Island Studies, University of Prince Edward Island, 1998)

  The offshore oil industry is dominated by huge multinational corporations, is technologically complex, has a distinctive culture, and is highly mobile in the exploration phase. It can appear off the coasts of island and ...
• The economic disadvantages of island developing countries : problems of smallness, remoteness and economies of scale 

  Fischer, Gerard; Encontre, Pierre (Institute of Island Studies, University of Prince Edward Island, 1998)

  The economic structure of any developing country is influenced concurrently by special disadvantages and advantages. Economic disadvantages or handicaps, and competitive advantages of small island developing countries, ...
• Towards a political approach to the island question 

  Hache, Jean Didier (Institute of Island Studies, University of Prince Edward Island, 1998)

  I have chosen to concentrate on a basic question which, in spite of numerous efforts, has - in my opinion - not so far been satisfactorily answered, namely: how can we define and evaluate "insularity',? To do so, I will ...
• A socio-economic development policy for the Azores 

  Silva, Jose Manuel Monteiro da (Institute of Island Studies, University of Prince Edward Island, 1998)

  The archipelago of the Azores consists of a group of nine islands, with total areas varying from 17 square kilometres (Corvo) to 747 square kilometres (S. Miguel). The Azorean total territorial area is about 2,333 ...
• Sustaining small island development : Isle of Man 

  Carse, Stephen (Institute of Island Studies, University of Prince Edward Island, 1998)

  The Isle of Man is not, nor ever has been, a part of the United Kingdom. It is a Crown Dependency of the United Kingdom and has the Queen as its sovereign head. It is home to a resident population of 71,714 (as of 1996), ...
• The case of oil in the Shetland Islands 

  Blackadder, Andrew (Institute of Island Studies, University of Prince Edward Island, 1998)

  Shetland is an archipelago of over one hundred windswept islands with a barren and hilly terrain. As a result of its landscape, Shetlanders have relied more on the sea for a living than on the land. This chapter examines ...
• Surviving the competition : small business in Malta 

  Briguglio, Lino (Institute of Island Studies, University of Prince Edward Island, 1998)

  The performance of small firms is crucial for the overall growth and development of many economies. In the European Union, small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) account for about 95 per cent of the firms, and ...
• Federal regional development policies and Atlantic Canada's Islands 

  Bickerton, James (Institute of Island Studies, University of Prince Edward Island, 1998)

  The islands of Cape Breton, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland lie in close proximity to one another on Canada's Atlantic coast. In the modern era, they have shared a certain fundamental economic reality born of ...
• The Mondragon cooperative group as a case of industrial democracy 

  Lucas, Antonio (Workers' Participation Development Centre, 1994)

  Among the multiple experiences of cooperativism, there is one in Spain that is especially recognised as unique or unusual: That of the Mondragon Cooperative Group which is a really paradigmatic example of successful ...
• The cooperative experience of Greece 

  Nicolaou-Smokoviti, Litsa (Workers' Participation Development Centre, 1994)

  Cooperatives have a long history in modern Greece (Sanders, 1962). Greek law is special here insofar as the state maintains a strong presence in cooperative matters, because the cooperative movement was always considered ...
• The experience of worker productive cooperatives 

  Munkner, Hans H. (Workers' Participation Development Centre, 1994)

  First of all, thank you for inviting me to Malta and giving me the chance to come back where I worked some years ago in the drafting of cooperative legislation. It is always a good feeling after having been instrumental ...
• A global contemporary review of cooperativism 

  Muralt, Jurgen von (Workers' Participation Development Centre, 1994)

  Long before the pioneers of Rochdale opened their first cooperative store, people nowadays forgotten and famous thinkers propagated and experimented with cooperative forms of production and living together. The list is ...

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