Where are the small island states? Raising their visibility through vignettes on global maps

Coetzee, Serena; Markus, Ton; Ricker, Britta

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Where are the small island states? Raising their visibility through vignettes on global maps

Serena Coetzee, Ton Markus, and Britta Ricker

Serena Coetzee

United Nations University Institute for the Integrated Management of Material Fluxes and of Resources (UNU-FLORES), Dresden, Germany

Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

Ton Markus

Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Britta Ricker

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5256-7824

Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

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