"Islands are ... naturally formed, surrounded by water, and are above sea level during hugh tide"

UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, Article 121

Of the 6 billion people in the world, one out of ten lives on an island (600 million). 10 Things you should know of Islands

• Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS)
• Building Tourism Resilience in Small Islands Developing States
• Caribean Planning for Adaptation to Climate Change (CPACC)
• Caribbean Sustainable Development Pages
• Forum for Island Research and Experience
• Global Islands Network (GIN)
• Canada: Institute of Island Studies
• International Small Islands Studies Association
• International Scientific Council for Island Development
• Islands of Globalization
• Island Resources Foundation
• Island Studies
• Island Vulnerability
• Pacific Island Development Program
• Pacific Islands Regional Ocean Policy
• Pacific Islands Forum
• Pacific Plan Online
• SIDSnet
• Small Island Culture Research Initiative
• Small Island Developing States Network
• Small Island states - Leading the Global Energy Revolution
• Small Island Voice
• South Pacific Regional Environment Programme
• SPIDER Network
• Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States
• South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission
• UNFCCC expert meeting on adaptation for small island developing States

• The Commonwealth
• FAO: Programme of Fisheries Assistance for SIDS
• FAO: Small Island Developing States
• UNEP: Islands Web Site
• UNDP: Small Islands Developing States Network
• UNDP: Small Island Developing States
• UNESCO: Coastal Regions and Small Islands Unit
• UNESCO: Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
• UNESCO: Man and the Biosphere Programme
• United Nations: SIDS Unit
• UN-OHRLLS: UN Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States

• University of Malta: Islands and Small States Institute
• University of the South Pacific
• University of West Indies

  Documents:
  

• The Barbados Programme of Action
• Problems in the Small Islands Environment - UNEP Earthwatch
• Island Development Policies of Japan (slide show) - Hari Srinivas
• Small Island Developing States and their Economic Vulnerabilities - Lino Briguglio
• Surviving in the 21st Century - Takao Akiyama
• Sustainable development of Small Island Economies - Hiroshi Kakazu
• Development Policy of Small Islands in Japan - Hiroshi Nemoto
• Planning for Sustainable development in the Pacific Islands - Rajesh Chandra
• Small Islands and ZERI: A unique case for the Application of ZERI - George Chan
• Island Network on Natural Disaster Risk Management - Juha I. Uitto
• The Solomon Islands: Headed for Self-destruction? - Cherylee P. Sevilla
• Renewable Energy in Small Islands - Thomas Lynge Jensen
• Pacific Island Nations' Regional Action Plan - Regional Consultation Workshop on Water in Small Island Countries, Sigatoka, Fiji, 29 July - 3 August 2002