**Messages and testimonials for "Metabolism of Islands"**

*Islands are often at the frontier of environmental kickbacks for an ill-designed and exploding social metabolism that the UNEP-IRP is trying to document and ultimately to tame. As the panel's Co-chair, I welcome this book for documenting the risks and portraying local efforts to finding ways out*. 

Janez Poto²nik 

Co-Chair, UNEP's International Resource Panel (IRP), and recipient of the United Nations' 2013 Champions of the Earth Award 


*By combining an industrial ecology approach with the context and systems operating on small islands, this book brings us closer to understanding how sustainability works in the real world, and how this might be applied to our global island.* 

James E. Randall UNESCO Chair in Island Studies and Sustainability University of Prince Edward Island, Canada 


*Metabolism of islands is a timely and fresh perspective on these small, open, and vulnerable economies. The principles of ecological economics embedded in this framework provide an instructive framework of how we as islanders can live, work, and recreate in a more sustainable and resilient manner*. 

Senator Crystal Drakes, Government of Barbados Economist and Foresight Sustainability Strategist 


*We welcome this book that provides a comprehensive picture of the ecological and social risks and of sustainable development prospects on islands. We are also grateful to the editors who played an important role as scientists who advise us*. 

Carlota Marañon Marquina Founding President, "Sustainable Samothraki" 


*This book offers a unique perspective to island scholarship and policy, challenging island governments to think systemically for building resilience.* 

Vincent Sweeney Head, Caribbean Sub-Regional Office United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
