Caribbean land and development revisited [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Jean Besson and Janet Momsen
| Caribbean land and development revisited [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Jean Besson and Janet Momsen |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, N.Y., : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (293 p.) |
| Disciplina | 333.7309729 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
BessonJean <1944->
MomsenJanet Henshall |
| Collana | Studies of the Americas |
| Soggetto topico |
Land use - Caribbean Area
Real estate development - Caribbean Area Agriculture - Caribbean Area |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-281-36270-0
9786611362706 0-230-60504-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910451220203321 |
| New York, N.Y., : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Caribbean land and development revisited [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Jean Besson and Janet Momsen
| Caribbean land and development revisited [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Jean Besson and Janet Momsen |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, N.Y., : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (293 p.) |
| Disciplina | 333.7309729 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
BessonJean <1944->
MomsenJanet Henshall |
| Collana | Studies of the Americas |
| Soggetto topico |
Land use - Caribbean Area
Real estate development - Caribbean Area Agriculture - Caribbean Area |
| ISBN |
1-281-36270-0
9786611362706 0-230-60504-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910784241503321 |
| New York, N.Y., : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Land resource regions and major land resource areas of the United States, the Caribbean, and the Pacific Basin / / United States Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service
| Land resource regions and major land resource areas of the United States, the Caribbean, and the Pacific Basin / / United States Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service |
| Edizione | [[3rd edition].] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | [Washington, D.C.] : , : Natural Resources Conservation Service, , 2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (vii, 669 pages) : color illustrations, color maps |
| Disciplina | 333.73/130973 |
| Collana | United States Department of Agriculture handbook |
| Soggetto topico |
Land use - United States
Land use - Caribbean Area Agricultural resources - United States Agricultural resources - Caribbean Area Agricultural geography - United States Agricultural geography Agricultural resources Land use |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910694129803321 |
| [Washington, D.C.] : , : Natural Resources Conservation Service, , 2006 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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