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

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Superior document:Studies of the Americas
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Year of Publication:2007
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Studies of the Americas.
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Physical Description:vii, 276 p. :; ill., maps.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.