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Caribbean Land and Development Revisited / edited by J. Besson, J. Momsen.
- Format:
- Book
- 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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