Relational Geographies of Islands in the Indo-Pacific: Environment, Society, and Politics
暫譯: 印太地區島嶼的關係地理：環境、社會與政治

Takashi Yamazaki, Ph.D. (University of Colorado, Boulder) is a professor of Geography at Osaka Metropolitan University, Japan. His current research interest concerns the (de)militarization of Okinawa and the critical geopolitics of Japanese foreign policy. He was/is a steering committee member of the International Geographical Union (IGU) Commission on Political Geography (2004-2016) and the Commission on Islands (2024-). He served as an editorial board member of Political Geography and Geopolitics for many years.

Godfrey Baldacchino, Ph.D. (Warwick), is a professor of Sociology at the University of Malta. He served as an Island Studies Teaching fellow, UNESCO co-chair, and Canada Research chair in Island Studies at the University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI), Canada, between 2003 and 2020. He is the founding executive editor of Island Studies Journal, and since 2018, the founding executive editor of Small States & Territories journal. In 2021, he was appointed (thematic) Malta Ambassador for islands and small states. His research interests include island studies, small state studies, political geography, sociology of work, international relations, island tourism, entrepreneurship, brain rotation, immigration, labor relations, human resource management, adult education, worker empowerment, and the development of cooperatives.

高橋山崎博士（科羅拉多大學博爾德分校）是日本大阪都會大學的地理學教授。他目前的研究興趣涉及沖繩的（去）軍事化及日本外交政策的關鍵地緣政治。他曾擔任國際地理聯合會（IGU）政治地理委員會（2004-2016）及島嶼委員會（2024-）的指導委員會成員。他還曾擔任《政治地理》和《地緣政治》期刊的編輯委員會成員多年。

戈弗雷·巴爾達基諾博士（華威大學）是馬爾他大學的社會學教授。他曾於2003年至2020年間擔任愛德華王子島大學（UPEI）島嶼研究的教學研究員、聯合國教科文組織共同主席及加拿大島嶼研究的研究主席。他是《島嶼研究期刊》的創始執行編輯，自2018年以來也是《小國與領土》期刊的創始執行編輯。2021年，他被任命為馬爾他島嶼及小國的（主題）大使。他的研究興趣包括島嶼研究、小國研究、政治地理、工作社會學、國際關係、島嶼旅遊、創業、人才流動、移民、勞動關係、人力資源管理、成人教育、工人賦權及合作社發展。