Financial crisis, governance and sustainable island futures : comparing Iceland and Newfoundland and Labrador
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Economic sustainability is integral to full-spectrum sustainability and relates \nto governance, social, and environmental dimensions of sustainability. Financial crises can \npotentially cascade out from the economic sphere and amplify issues of political legitimacy \nand accountability, thereby becoming political crises. We compare the 2008 Iceland banking \ncrisis and the ongoing Newfoundland and Labrador financial crisis to identify common factors \nthat contributed to these separate crises. Methodologically, we take a comparative case study \napproach, relying on a broad range of secondary sources. Drawing on theoretical concepts \nfrom crisis studies and island studies, we identify several cross-cutting factors, including a \npolitical culture of anti-reflexivity in the pre-crisis period, as well as communication gaps in \ncrisis response. As the crises unfolded, public anger played a provocative role, especially in \nIceland. Lessons from this comparative analysis can contribute to building full-spectrum \nsustainability for small island states and subnational island jurisdictions.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".