Their development prospects are constrained by several socio-economic and geophysical structural impediments, which have made them extremely vulnerable to external shocks as well as to the adverse consequences of environmental change.
Leurs perspectives de développement sont limitées par plusieurs obstacles structurels d &apos; ordre socioéconomique et géophysique qui les rendent extrêmement vulnérables aux chocs exogènes ainsi qu &apos; aux contrecoups de toute perturbation environnementale.