04476nam 22007454a 450 991045122020332120200520144314.01-281-36270-097866113627060-230-60504-410.1057/9780230605046(CKB)1000000000342546(EBL)307651(OCoLC)567827688(SSID)ssj0000277688(PQKBManifestationID)11215159(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000277688(PQKBWorkID)10234415(PQKB)10051201(SSID)ssj0001657287(PQKBManifestationID)16439798(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001657287(PQKBWorkID)14986198(PQKB)11630206(DE-He213)978-0-230-60504-6(MiAaPQ)EBC307651(Au-PeEL)EBL307651(CaPaEBR)ebr10194081(CaONFJC)MIL136270(EXLCZ)99100000000034254620061011d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCaribbean land and development revisited[electronic resource] /edited by Jean Besson and Janet Momsen1st ed.New York, N.Y. Palgrave Macmillan20071 online resource (293 p.)Studies of the AmericasDescription based upon print version of record.1-349-53460-9 1-4039-7392-X Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.Studies of the Americas.Land useCaribbean AreaReal estate developmentCaribbean AreaAgricultureCaribbean AreaElectronic books.Land useReal estate developmentAgriculture333.7309729Besson Jean1944-624348Momsen Janet Henshall148741MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451220203321Caribbean land and development revisited1968414UNINA