PROMOTING THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF SMALL ISLAND DEVELOPING STATES: INSIGHTS FROM VULNERABILITY AND RESILIENCE ANALYSIS

Samuel Bates and Valérie Angeon ()
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Valérie Angeon: AgroParisTech-UMR Métafort; INRA-URZ and French West Indies University-CRPLC

Region et Developpement, 2015, vol. 42, 15-29

Abstract: This article suggests a generic method to compute a composite index of vulnerability and resilience from a sustainable development perspective: the Net Vulnerability-Resilience Index. A worldwide application shows that both vulnerability and resilience are policy responsive. From the worst to the ideal, the state of vulnerability-resilience can be an uncontrolled vulnerability, a contained vulnerability, an unstable resilience or a stable resilience. We show that contrary to the well-established conclusion, Small Island Developing States are not specifically more prone to vulnerability than other countries. Small Island Developing States must concentrate their efforts on a better international economic integration that should be compatible with the preservation of their natural resources.

Keywords: COMPOSITE INDEX; GRAPH THEORY; VULNERABILITY; RESILIENCE; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C02 O11 Q01 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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