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- Title
Measuring insularity as a state of nature.
- Authors
Licio, Vania; Pinna, Anna Maria
- Abstract
In this paper we construct a composite index that measures insularity for countries that are islands and for those that have islands. By collecting available physical data for all islands in the world, be they states or regions, we provide a novel data set of insularity along different dimensions. Three of these contribute to making insularity more or less severe: the degree of land dispersion, the remoteness and the average size of the island. We aggregate this information, weighting it by the share of insular land at the country level, and compute a measure of insularity that ranges between 0 and 100. We find that the greater burden linked to insularity is borne by islands with no territorial sovereignty.
- Subjects
ISLANDS; MEASUREMENT; SOVEREIGNTY; DISPERSION (Chemistry)
- Publication
Papers in Regional Science, 2021, Vol 100, Issue 4, p979
- ISSN
1056-8190
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/pirs.12598