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Island Studies. Island Geography. But what is an Island?

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Jędrusik M.
Miscellanea Geographica. Regional Studies on Development
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2011
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vol. 15
201-212
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There are institutes which research phenomena and processes taking place on islands. Such research is conducted nowadays among others at universities in France, United States, Australia, New Zealand, Great Britain and Scandinavia. Godfrey Baldacchino from the University of Prince Edward Island is a professor of Island Studies (and the editor-in-chief of the "Island Studies Journal"1). One of the actively operating commissions of the International Geographical Union is the IGU Commission on Islands. Therefore, the term "island" is commonly present in the modern reality and so strongly rooted that, as a results, its meaning very rarely raises doubts. Sometimes a group of researchers makes an attempt to reflect upon the definition of the term2. Those attempts are not followed by satisfying results, which does not encourage to further research on islands, be what they may.The following article is another attempt to ponder the nature of islandness and to point those characteristics of an island which differentiate it from other geographical objects. According to the author, the group of geographical objects treated as islands is definitely too wide, and the vast protruding lands, commonly regarded as islands, continue to be islands in the universal awareness only out of habit, or due to the lack of a better, adequate term as a result of existing terminological dichotomy between the terms island/continent.
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The Elusive Sustainable Development of Small Tropical Islands

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Jędrusik M.
Miscellanea Geographica. Regional Studies on Development
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2014
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vol. 18
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issue 3
26-30
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The notion of sustainable development is one of the most popular concepts of our time. However, it remains controversial and quite problematic, especially for small islands and their communities. These challenges arise in relation to the limited scope of resources which can be used for development, and the difficulty of defining the needs of future generations. Looking at the history of many island jurisdictions, one is confronted with a picture of substantial economic evolution. Island communities have rarely, if ever, been able to foresee or plan their future; frequently, the situation has turned out to be very different from any previously envisaged scenarios. This should not be surprising, since small island destinies are often determined by external variables, over which they have little, if any, control. These variables include colonization, competition over scarce territories, improvements in transportation technologies, the information revolution and natural disasters. Thus, the very idea of sustainable development with respect to small islands is nothing but a charming slogan, an entertaining fiction rather than a reachable target. Of course, islands and their communities can take‘green’ initiatives that are more environmentally friendly; they cannot, however, achieve a state of sustainable development, except with a serious deterioration in the quality of life and off-island connectivity (by air or sea) of their residents.
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Island cities: the case of Belfast, Northern Ireland

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Royle S. A.
Miscellanea Geographica. Regional Studies on Development
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2015
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vol. 19
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issue 2
5-8
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The paper considers Belfast as an ‘island city’ with reference to issues of identity and economy and especially in connection with a series of statements from the ‘Futures of Islands’ briefing document prepared for the IGU’s Commission on Islands meeting in Kraków in August 2014. Belfast as a contested space, a hybrid British/Irish city on the island of Ireland, exemplifies well how ‘understandings of the past condition the future’, whilst the Belfast Agreement which brought the Northern Ireland peace process to its culmination after decades of violence known as the ‘Troubles’ speaks to ‘island ways of knowing, of comprehending problems - and their solutions’. Finally, Belfast certainly demonstrates that ‘island peoples shape their contested futures’
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Medzinárodná delimitácia námorných zón (2010-2016)

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Vaculčík V.
Právník. Teoretický časopis pro otázky státu a práva (The Lawyer - Scientific Review for Problems of State and Law)
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2024
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vol. 163
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issue 4
383-410
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The article analyzes the later development in the international delimitation of maritime zones after the breakthrough decision Maritime Delimitation in the Black Sea (Romania v. Ukraine, 2009). In this later period, a handful of important jurisprudence, critically followed by scholars, enriched the understanding of some most controversial areas in the law of the sea, namely the complex delimitation of small islands and the delimitation of the continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles from baselines. The international jurisprudence can be characterized by an innovative and open-minded approach, best illustrated by the application of the well-established equidistance line (nowadays considered as being part of customary law together with the special circumstances method), but also older methods of delimitation – the angle-bisector method and the equiratio method.
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Wolin i Uznam - obszar pogranicza czy centrum regionu? Historyczne i współczesne uwarunkowania funkcjonowania wysp

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Musiaka Ł., Łódzki U., musiaka@wp.pl
Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Geographica Socio-Oeconomica
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2014
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issue 16
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Artykuł porusza szereg zagadnień związanych z funkcjonowaniem społecznym i gospodarczym wysp Wolin i Uznam. Punktem wyjścia jest krótka analiza położenia geograficznego i dostępności obszaru. W dalszej kolejności dokonano przeglądu najważniejszych wydarzeń historycznych, by ostatecznie skupić się na współczesnych podstawach egzystencji obszaru, to jest gospodarce morskiej, turystyce i handlu. Szczególny nacisk położono także na bariery i formy współpracy transgranicznej samorządów obu wysp w ramach Euroregionu „Pomerania” oraz ograniczenia i możliwości związane z przygranicznym położeniem.
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The article presents range of issues related to the social and economic aspects of functioning of the islands of Wolin and Usedom. The author begins with a brief analysis of the geographical location and accessibility of the area. Subsequently, the author presents an overview of the most important historical facts and finally focuses on the fundamentals of contemporary existence of the islands ‒ maritime economy, tourism and trade. An important issue also are transport and logistics, both in the local and international scale. Particular emphasis in the article is placed on the barriers and forms of cross-border cooperation of local governments of the two islands, in the framework of the Euroregion „Pomerania” and the limitations and opportunities influenced by the border location of the islands. Finally, the author comes to conclusion, that despite of many difficulties, the past experience of a neighborhood cooperation between Usedom and Wolin, allows optimistic predictions of the future development of the area, which is in the interest of both, Poland and Germany
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Ślady wczesnośredniowiecznego osadnictwa na dawnej wyspie jeziornej w Bienicach, gm. Dobra, stanowisko 17

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Weinkauf M.
Pomorania Antiqua
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2020
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vol. Tom XXIX
s. 181-194
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In the 1860s unidentified wooden structures were observed around the peninsula called ‘Heron’s Neck’, which were relics of an alleged stilt village built on both sides of the peninsula and the supposed remains of the bridge crossing from the peninsula to the former island. Both the relics of old structures and the former island (site 17) should be considered in the context of the early medieval settlement complex in Dobra, located on a nearby peninsula. In 2017 on the initiative of the Institute of Archaeology of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, archaeological research was carried out in Bienice at site 17. The field research was undertaken as part of the NPRH project „ A man on the border…” The site in Bienice has not yet been entered in the conservation register. During the conducted research, both stratigraphic levels and source material from the early Middle Ages were documented. The movable materials included sherds of partially slow wheel-thrown pottery (28 fragments of vessels) with simple shapes and rims referring to vessels of type C/Feldberg or D/Menkendorf and sherds of fully slow wheel-thrown vessels (5 fragments of vessels). The potter analysed can be dated at least to the 10th century. The island in Bienice is a little hill, which in the early Middle Ages was probably a point distinguished from the neighbourhood, surrounded by forest and lake waters. A wooden bridge led to it from the peninsula, the relics of which have not been preserved to this day. The Island, located in a hidden and inaccessible place for the local community, could be a retreat of mythical and sacred significance.
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Remote Islands as Fictional and Metaphorical Places in Cervantes, Fletcher and Shakespeare

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González J. M.
Multicultural Shakespeare: Translation, Appropriation and Performance
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2017
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vol. 15
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issue 30
133-145
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Islands have always occupied a significant place in literature and have been a source of inspiration for the literary imagination. Fictional islands have existed as either lost paradises, or places where law breaks down under physical hardships and a sense of entrapment and oppression. Islands can be sites of exotic fascination, of cultural exchange and of great social and political upheaval. However, they are more than mere locations since to be in a place implies being bound to that place and appropriating it. That means that the islands narrow boundaries, surrounded by the sea and cut off from mainland, can create bridges between the real and the imaginary as a response to cultural and social anxieties, frequently taking the form of eutopias/dystopias, Edens, Arcadias, Baratarias, metatexts, or cultural crossroads, deeply transforming that particular geographical location. This article is concerned with insularity as a way of interrogating cultural and political practices in the early modern period by looking at the works of Cervantes, Fletcher and Shakespeare where insular relations are characterized by tensions of different sort. The arrival of Prospero and Miranda, Periandro and Auristela (The Trials of Persiles and Segismunda), and Albert and Aminta (The Sea Voyage) to their respective islands take us to a different world, revealing different political and cultural interests and generating multiple perspectives on the shifting relationship between culture, society and power.
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Omnes viae Albam ducunt. Z badań nad pograniczem pomorsko-wielkopolskim we wczesnym średniowieczu

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Chudziak W.
Slavia Antiqua: rocznik poświęcony starożytnościom słowiańskim
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2018
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issue 59
197-222
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The article touches upon the emergence of settlement structures in the West Pomerania Lakeland including the upper estuary of the Rega and the Parsęta as well as the Drawa and the Gwda, frequently referred to as the borderland between Pomerania and Wielkopolska. An attempt was made to assign periods to settlement developments with respect to the emergence of the borderland. Special emphasis was placed on central locations like strongholds and some islands as well as far-reaching routes leading to Białogard (Alba in Latin).
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