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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825608503321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

1-281-36270-0

9786611362706

0-230-60504-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (293 p.)

Collana

Studies of the Americas

Altri autori (Persone)

BessonJean <1944->

MomsenJanet Henshall

Disciplina

333.7309729

Soggetti

Land use - Caribbean Area

Real estate development - Caribbean Area

Agriculture - Caribbean Area

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.