Nuova globalizzazione,transizione post-industriale e insularità. Flussi e reti islandesi agli inizi del III millennio.

During the post-industrial transition period,flows and networks tended to reorganize themselves in their functionality ,while,apparently,maintaining the characteristics of the traditional economic structure or of the secondary sector : the role and functions of insularity were thus changing. Studying "the island of Iceland" some first considerations emerge from some census data of the late nineties ( a period that represents the consolidation of the transition to a post-industrial economic structural dimension). The types,methods and intensity of relations between Iceland and the mainland experienced a continuous evolution during the eighties and nineties and not only in relation to technological innovations, but also due to quantitative and qualitative changes in flows. Thus,for example,exports and emigration on the one hand and imports,immigration,tourism,the flows of invisible communications,investments of foreign capital on the other. The new "insularity" therefore expresses a contradiction between the need to integrate with continental States and the opposite one to preserve its own territorial identity and its own market.