Island Communities, Island Rhetoric: Sustainable Development and the Global Promise?

在小岛屿，将经济发展、社会公平和环境保护结合起来的挑战更加严峻。这项研究的重点是塔斯马尼亚州，澳大利亚的外围岛屿国家，有时典型的？地区性的废物？其目的是研究塔斯马尼亚人如何理解和适应可持续发展（要求新形式的生态公民）和全球化（基于保守的消费者公民）的悖论。两者都深刻地影响着政府的核心政策以及正式和非正式的机构生活和语言。利用文化地理学和政治生态学，这项研究将加强关于岛屿地区、地方社区和治理、可持续性和社会变革的理论和政策讨论。

The challenge to integrate economic development, social equity and environmental care intensifies on small islands. This research focuses on Tasmania, peripheral island state of Australia, sometimes typified as ?regional basket-case?. The aim is to examine how Tasmanians understand and accommodate the paradoxes of sustainable development (demanding new forms of ecological citizenship) and globalisation (based on conservative consumer-citizenship). Both deeply influence core government policy as well as formal and informal institutional life and language. Drawing on cultural geography and political ecology, the research will enhance theory and policy discussions about island regions, local communities and governance, sustainability and social change.