Beyond the tropical paradise and beyond the fear of climate change effects, the Maldives is a fascinating island country that faces social, cultural, economic and environmental transformations. Atolls of the Maldives: Nissology and Geography provides a spatial analysis on some key challenges the Maldivian society has to deal with, and guides the reader in the discovery of the human and environmental geography of this Indian Ocean archipelago. Geographers, political scientists, sociologists, geologists, biologists and experts in environmental policies help the audience to move through the complex systems of interrelations, connections and disconnections that shape the environment and the geography of this extraordinary archipelagic country.

About the Author

Stefano Malatesta is a research fellow at the Marine Research and High Education Centre at the University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy

Marcella Schmidt di Friedberg is associate professor at the Department of Educational Human Sciences and the Marine Research and High Education Centre at the University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy

Shahida Zubair is an independent consultant and researcher based in the Maldives and in Oxford, UK

David Bowen is reader at the Faculty of Business at Oxford Brookes University

Mizna Mohamed is senior lecturer at the Postgraduate Research Centre of the Maldives National University

Book Information
ISBN 9781786606617
Author Stefano Malatesta
Format Hardback
Page Count 244
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield International
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield International
Weight(grams) 553g
Dimensions(mm) 241mm * 160mm * 21mm