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

• Pubblicazione: New York, N.Y., : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (293 p.)
• Disciplina: 333.7309729
• Soggetto topico: Land use - Caribbean Area; Real estate development - Caribbean Area; Agriculture - Caribbean Area
• Altri autori: BessonJean <1944-> MomsenJanet Henshall
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Caribbean land and development revisited
• ISBN: 1-281-36270-0; 9786611362706; 0-230-60504-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910825608503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies of the Americas.