Caribbean land and development revisited / edited by Jean Besson and Janet Momsen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Besson, Jean, 1944-

Momsen, Janet Henshall.

Series:

Studies of the Americas

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Land use--Caribbean Area.

Land use.

Real estate development--Caribbean Area.

Real estate development.

Agriculture--Caribbean Area.

Agriculture.

Caribbean Area.

Physical Description:

xiv, 276 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y. : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Summary:

This collection of eighteen chapters plus an editorial introduction brings together studies of land and development throughout the Caribbean region by historians, anthropologists, geographers, land use planners, a sociologist and a human rights lawyer. Themes include post-emancipation access to land for the former slaves, soil erosion, crop production, agro-biodiversity, tourism, fishing, migration, land tenure, landscape and environment, and various aspects of land policy, planning and management. The chapters cover a range of territories in the Hispanic, Francophone, English-speaking and Dutch Caribbean. This volume is a sequel to the editors' earlier ground-breaking book "Land and Development in the Caribbean" (Macmillan, 1987) and, with a new cast of authors and an entirely new collection of essays, provides fresh perspectives on Caribbean land and development based on both historical and contemporary research.

Contents:

Introduction / Jean Besson and Janet Momsen

Historical perspectives on land and crop production

The importance of the 1897 British Royal Commission / Bonham C. Richardson

The Colonial Office and soil conservation in the British Caribbean, 1938-1950 / Lawrence S. Grossman

Domestic food production in Guadeloupe in World War II / Glenroy Taitt

Cuba's farmers' markets in the "special period", 1990-1995 / Rebecca Torres, Janet Momsen, and Debbie A. Niemeier

Policy, planning and management

Land, development and indigenous rights in Suriname: the role of international human rights law / Ellen-Rose Kambel

The management of state lands in Trinidad and Tobago / J. David Stanfield and A.A. Wijetunga

The participation paradox: stories from St Lucia / Jonathan Pugh

Land disputes and development activity in the Dominican Republic / Donald Macleod

Land policy in Jamaica in the decade after Agenda 21 / Learie A. Miller and David Barker

Land for the peasantry?

"Squatting" as a strategy for land settlement and sustainable development / Jean Besson

The triumph of the commons: Barbuda belongs to all Barbudans together / David Lowenthal and Colin Clarke

The contested existence of a peasantry in Martinique: scientific discourses controversies and evidence / Christine Chivallon

The waxing and waning of land for the peasantry in Barbados / Janet Momsen

Agro-biodiversity as an environmental management tool in small-scale farming landscapes: implications for agrochemical use / Balfour Spence and Elizabeth Thomas-Hope

Landscape, migration and development

Arboreal landscapes of power and resistance / Mimi Sheller

From the pre-colonial to the virtual: the scope and scape of land, landuse, and landloss on Montserrat / Jonathan Skinner

"Leave to come back": the importance of family land in a transnational Caribbean community / Beth Mills

Collateral and achievement: land and Caribbean migration / Margaret Byron.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

140397392X

9781403973924

OCLC:

72988486

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