1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910784241503321

Titolo

Caribbean land and development revisited [[electronic resource] /] / 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.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911020340503321

Autore

Natsuno Takeshi

Titolo

The i-mode wireless ecosystem / / Takeshi Natsuno ; translated by Ruth South McCreery

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, West Sussex ; ; Hoboken, N.J., : John Wiley, c2003

ISBN

9786610271009

9781280271007

1280271000

9780470341834

0470341831

9780470859094

0470859091

9780470859193

0470859199

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (191 p.)

Disciplina

004.67/8

Soggetti

Wireless Internet

Mobile communication systems

Cell phone services industry - Japan

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 (p. 167) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The i-mode Wireless Ecosystem; About the Author; Contents; Preface to the English Edition; Introduction; 1 A Value-Generating Ecosystem; 1.1 From Concept to Reality; 1.2 An Ecosystem Model that Generates High Added Value; 1.3 DoCoMo's Role in the Ecosystem; 1.4 The User Experience is Critical; 1.5 A Lubricant: The De Facto Standard; 1.6 Another Lubricant: The Experience of Success; 1.7 Why not so Successful Overseas?; 1.8 A Value Chain not Found Elsewhere; 1.9 A Suggestion for Multichannel Television; 1.10 The Ecosystem Idea: An Infrastructure-Type Business Essential

3.3 Java Opens out Mobile Phone Uses3.4 Setting Mobile Phone Specifications - a la i-mode; 3.5 The Next Evolutionary Step: Born through Positive Feedback; 3.6 Reading in Cards by Infrared; Postscript: Java - Success out of Disaster; 4 Connection with the Real and the Realistic; 4.1 From the Street; 4.2 High Tech? Not Necessarily; 4.3 Printing Service: Step by Step; 4.4 Proven Advantages: Our Tie-Up with Coca-Cola; 4.5 Sega: New Games Using Mobile Phones; 4.6 D2C Builds a Mobile Advertising Market; Postscript: Look-Alikes? PlayStation and i-mode; 5 i-mode and the Battle for Net Supremacy

5.1 Real Use Begins Now5.2 Untouched Territory for the Internet; 5.3 Where i-mode is Going Next...; 5.4 Progress on the Vertical Dimension Spurs Horizontal Progress; 5.5 AOL Targets Aggregation; 5.6 And Microsoft too; 5.7 Those Who Provide the Circuits: A Hard Life, with No Added Value; 5.8 The Theory of Horizontal Specialization: In Our Interest?; 5.9 Similar, but Different: AOL and Ordinary ISPs; 5.10 Is there an Opportunity for Manufacturers?; 5.11 Fractal Structures: The Internet and the Real World; 5.12 Business Opportunities through Links to the Real World

Postscript: Justice and Generosity in the IT World?6 i-mode for the World; 6.1 From Japan to a Global-Scale Ecosystem; 6.2 Why Take i-mode Overseas?; 6.3 The Nursery School Model; 6.4 Difficulties in Achieving Consensus; 6.5 The First Step, Customized Straps; 6.6 Early Results of i-mode's Overseas Expansion; Postscript: Marrying off a Beloved Daughter; Afterword; Further Reading; Index

Sommario/riassunto

i-mode is the packet-based service for mobile phones offered by Japan's leader in wireless technology, NTT DoCoMo. Unlike most of the key players in the wireless arena, i-mode eschews the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) and uses a simplified version of HTML, Compact Wireless Markup Language (CWML) instead of WAP's Wireless Markup Language (WML). Ever since its introduction in February 1999 i-mode has been the most successful mobile internet technology of the World. i.e. the quickness by which the technology has spread over Japan.  In Japan, the number of i-mode users is close to a sensat