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Caribbean Land and Developm...
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
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monografia Rebiun21244526 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun21244526 m o d | cr#-n--------- 151208s2007 xxu| o |||| 0|eng d 2006033724 1-281-36270-0 9786611362706 0-230-60504-4 10.1057/9780230605046 doi UPVA 997916114703706 UAM 991008060340504211 CBUC 991010480478206709 CBUC 991000726507606712 CBUC 991010480478206709 UCAR 991008411667504213 CBUC 991000326809706712 CBUC 991046676259706706 UPCT u161186 MiAaPQ MiAaPQ MiAaPQ eng cc----- Caribbean Land and Development Revisited Recurso electrónico] edited by Jean Besson, Janet Momsen 1st ed New York Palgrave Macmillan US Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan 2007 New York New York Palgrave Macmillan US Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan 1 online resource (293 p.) 1 online resource (293 p.) Studies of the Americas Description based upon print version of record Includes bibliographical references and index 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 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 English Besson, Jean. editor Momsen, Janet Henshall editor 1-349-53460-9 1-4039-7392-X Studies of the Americas