as they came from small islands surrounded by vast ocean expanses. No other culture embraced the open sea so fully. For the continental Europeans, on the other hand, the ocean was looked upon as a ...

There are currently 39 small island developing States in three geographic regions: the Caribbean; the Pacific; and Africa, Indian Ocean and South China Sea. These small islands have a combined ...

notwithstanding climate change-induced sea level rise“. Pacific small island states may be pioneering work to secure maritime boundaries, but rising seas could redraw coasts from Bangladesh to ...

[and] are considered extremely vulnerable to global warming and sea level rise." UN Global Conference on the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States adopts the Barbados Programme ...