Entrepreneurship in island contexts: A systematic review of the tourism and hospitality literature

P Booth, SA Chaperon, JS Kennell… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Entrepreneurship is vital to the success of tourism and hospitality and the sector makes an
important contribution to many island economies. Despite this, far too little attention has …

Factors influencing the ecological security of island cities: A neighborhood-scale study of Zhoushan Island, China

Y Wu, T Zhang, H Zhang, T Pan, X Ni… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Many island cities have vulnerable ecosystems, yet island ecosystems also present special
challenges for research. Ecological footprint analysis is an effective method of evaluating the …

Islands of vulnerability and resilience: Manufactured stereotypes?

I Kelman - Area, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
This paper interrogates the aspects of islandness labelled “vulnerability” and “resilience”
through analysing the concepts' definitions from a development perspective. The …

The political economy of transit value capture: The changing business model of the MTRC in Hong Kong

N Aveline-Dubach, G Blandeau - Urban Studies, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
The mechanism of land value capture (LVC) for financing urban transport, which supports
the cost of transit infrastructure through the revenues of land and property, has generated a …

Island ferry travel during COVID-19: Charting the recovery of local tourism in Hong Kong

HY Lee, KYK Leung - Current Issues in Tourism, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
With stringent immigration controls implemented by governments around the world, the year
2020 has seen global aviation and tourism industries grind to a complete halt. However …

A Novel Model for Instance Segmentation and Quantification of Bridge Surface Cracks—The YOLOv8-AFPN-MPD-IoU

C **ong, T Zayed, X Jiang, G Alfalah, EM Abelkader - Sensors, 2024 - mdpi.com
Surface cracks are alluded to as one of the early signs of potential damage to infrastructures.
In the same vein, their detection is an imperative task to preserve the structural health and …

Regionmaking and conceptual development in South China: Perceiving islands, the Pearl River Delta, and the Greater Bay area

P Su, A Grydehøj - Political Geography, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Pearl River Delta in South China is today associated with one of the world's
largest megaregions. Even though scholarship often treats the Pearl River Delta as a natural …

How far can one go?: how distance matters in island development

G Baldacchino - 2020 - um.edu.mt
Island development trajectories are heavily impacted by their relevance, similarity,
complementarity and value in relation to continental development pathways. I would argue …

Islands of connectivity: Archipelago relationality and transport infrastructure in Venice Lagoon

A Grydehøj, M Casagrande - Area, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Researchers are increasingly turning to relational approaches to island geography, with
special emphasis being placed on archipelagos and land–sea interactions. Islands …

Island geographies of separation and cohesion: The coronavirus (COVID‐19) pandemic and the geopolitics of Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland)

A Grydehøj, I Kelman, P Su - Tijdschrift voor economische en …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland) is an Arctic highly autonomous subnational island
jurisdiction (SNIJ) of Denmark, its former coloniser. The coronavirus (COVID‐19) pandemic …