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Caribbean Land and Development Revisited / edited by J. Besson, J. Momsen.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Besson, Jean, 1944-
Momsen, Janet Henshall.
Series:
Studies of the Americas
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
America--Politics and government.
America.
Political sociology.
Urban economics.
Ethnology--Latin America.
Ethnology.
Culture.
Public administration.
Human rights.
American Politics.
Political Sociology.
Urban Economics.
Latin American Culture.
Public Administration.
Human Rights.
Local Subjects:
American Politics.
Political Sociology.
Urban Economics.
Latin American Culture.
Public Administration.
Human Rights.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (293 p.)
Edition:
1st ed. 2007.
Place of Publication:
New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
The book is an interdisciplinary collection of fifteen essays, with an editorial introduction, on a range of territories in the Commonwealth, Francophone, and Hispanic Caribbean. The authors focus on land and development, providing fresh perspectives through a collection of international contributing authors.
Contents:
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-/ 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 H. 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 agro-chemical 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:
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9786611362706
9781281362704
1281362700
9780230605046
0230605044
OCLC:
567827688

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