Caribbean land and development revisited
By: edited by Jean Besson and Janet Momsen
Contributors: Besson, Jean, 1944-; Momsen, Janet Henshall
Edition: 1st ed
Series: Studies of the Americas
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9781403973924
Subjects: Land use -- Caribbean Area; Real estate development -- Caribbean Area; Agriculture -- Caribbean Area
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Jean Besson and Janet Momsen; title: Historical perspectives on land and crop production; title: The importance of the 1897 British Royal Commission / Bonham C. Richardson; title: The Colonial Office and soil conservation in the British Caribbean, 1938-1950 / Lawrence S. Grossman; title: Domestic food production in Guadeloupe in World War II / Glenroy Taitt; title: Cuba's farmers' markets in the "special period", 1990-1995 / Rebecca Torres, Janet Momsen, and Debbie A. Niemeier; title: Policy, planning and management; title: Land, development and indigenous rights in Suriname: the role of international human rights law / Ellen-Rose Kambel; title: The management of state lands in Trinidad and Tobago / J. David Stanfield and A.A. Wijetunga; title: The participation paradox: stories from St Lucia / Jonathan Pugh; title: Land disputes and development activity in the Dominican Republic / Donald Macleod; title: Land policy in Jamaica in the decade after Agenda 21 / Learie A. Miller and David Barker; title: Land for the peasantry?; title: "Squatting" as a strategy for land settlement and sustainable development / Jean Besson; title: The triumph of the commons: Barbuda belongs to all Barbudans together / David Lowenthal and Colin Clarke; title: The contested existence of a peasantry in Martinique: scientific discourses controversies and evidence / Christine Chivallon; title: The waxing and waning of land for the peasantry in Barbados / Janet Momsen; title: Agro-biodiversity as an environmental management tool in small-scale farming landscapes: implications for agrochemical use / Balfour Spence and Elizabeth Thomas-Hope; title: Landscape, migration and development; title: Arboreal landscapes of power and resistance / Mimi Sheller; title: From the pre-colonial to the virtual: the scope and scape of land, landuse, and landloss on Montserrat / Jonathan Skinner; title: "Leave to come back": the importance of family land in a transnational Caribbean community / Beth Mills; title: Collateral and achievement: land and Caribbean migration / Margaret Byron