Caribbean Land and Development Revisited / / edited by J. Besson, J. Momsen
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| Titolo: |
Caribbean Land and Development Revisited / / edited by J. Besson, J. Momsen
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| Pubblicazione: | New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2007 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. 2007. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (293 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 333.7309729 |
| Soggetto topico: | America - Politics and government |
| Political sociology | |
| Urban economics | |
| Ethnology - Latin America | |
| Culture | |
| Public administration | |
| Human rights | |
| American Politics | |
| Political Sociology | |
| Urban Economics | |
| Latin American Culture | |
| Public Administration | |
| Human Rights | |
| Altri autori: |
BessonJean <1944->
MomsenJanet Henshall
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| 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: | 9786611362706 |
| 9781281362704 | |
| 1281362700 | |
| 9780230605046 | |
| 0230605044 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910960037803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Studies of the Americas