--Shunsuke Nagashima is a professor of Kagoshima University in Japan. He is the vice-president of the Japan Society for Island Studies and a permanent director. He has visited 148 states or countries and 3,600 islands since 1971. Nagashima wrote books and articles about islands such as Small Ground in Water Hemisphere: Life Economy of the Pacific Islander; Study of the Islands of the World and Impacts to the Micronesian Islands by Environmental Change of Globalization and Climate Change; and most recently, Island Ecology: Asia-Pacific Issues on Ecosystem Landscape and Human Impact.
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