Atolls of the Maldives

Nissology and Geography

Stefano Malatesta, Marcella Schmidt di Friedberg, Shahida Zubair, David Bowen, Mizna Mohamed

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Year: 2021
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781786606624
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Environment & Energy Policy
• Index: Social Sciences

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.

Table of contents

• Foreword
• Acknowledgements
• Editors’ Introduction
• 1 Environment and Education
• 2 The Gender Dimension of Environment in the Maldives
• 3 Energy Production and Waste Management: The Human Ecology of Maldivian Islands
• 4 Water Management and Consumption Models
• 5 The Centralization of Governance and Economy in the Maldives: A Reading of the Contemporary Demographic Transition between Domestic Migration and Forced Displacement
• 6 Greening the Resort, De-Bordering the Enclave
• 7 New Waves: The Guesthouse Dilemma
• 8 Governance, Activism and Environment in the Maldives
• 9 Environment and Ecosystems Protection
• 10 Sea-Level Changes and the Reefs of the Maldivian Archipelago
• 11 Coral Reef Biodiversity of the Maldives
• Index
• About the Editors and Contributors