COVID-19 Island Insights for Prince Edward Island now available
The entry for Prince Edward Island is now available . The series aims to bring together critical assessments of how specific islands around the world have performed during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the extent to which their recovery plans are able to promote long term resilience and sustainability.
Prince Edward Island is one of twenty-five islands around the world participating in this project. Like many islands, PEI has been able to reduce the spread of the virus better than many mainland states and jurisdictions. The international group of researchers behind the project hope it can be a tool for policy makers and island stakeholders.
The Institute of Island Studies at the 69传媒 is a partner in this collaboration, which recently released papers focusing on COVID-19 responses in , , and . The COVID-19 Island Insights Series provides understanding grounded in local knowledge and has been released in sets of two or three periodically since November 2020, with a total of seventeen Island Insights now available .
鈥淲hile the entire series will not be complete and published until May, we can already see patterns emerging that we believe could help inform island policy makers here and elsewhere,鈥� said Dr. Jim Randall, the project lead at UPEI. 鈥淲hen islands have the autonomy to craft their own responses, when they have the capacity to limit access, and when their residents are conscientious, they have been more successful in preventing the spread of the virus.鈥�
In May 2021, the Island Insights project team will be hosting online workshops where policy makers and researchers will come together to identify key lessons. The findings will be shared at the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26), taking place November 1鈥�12 in Glasgow, Scotland.
The COVID-19 Island Insights Series is an initiative led by the at 69传媒and (SCELG) at Glasgow鈥檚 University of Strathclyde, in collaboration with , a social enterprise which seeks to drive sustainable change across islands and rural areas around the world.
To read the Prince Edward Island COVID-19 Island Insights paper, and the others in the series, visit .
