Caribbean Land and Development Revisited
Besson, Jean (EDT)
Momsen, Janet
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BOOK SUMMARY
This collection of eighteen chapters plus an editorial introduction brings together studies of land and development throughout the Caribbean region by historians, anthropologists, geographers, land use planners, a sociologist and a human rights lawyer. Th
BOOK SYNOPSIS
This collection of eighteen chapters plus an editorial introduction brings together studies of land and development throughout the Caribbean region by historians, anthropologists, geographers, land use planners, a sociologist and a human rights lawyer. Themes include post-emancipation access to land for the former slaves, soil erosion, crop production, agro-biodiversity, tourism, fishing, migration, land tenure, landscape and environment, and various aspects of land policy, planning and management. The chapters cover a range of territories in the Hispanic, Francophone, English-speaking and Dutch Caribbean. This volume is a sequel to the editors' earlier ground-breaking book Land and Development in the Caribbean (Macmillan, 1987) and, with a new cast of authors and an entirely new collection of essays, provides fresh perspectives on Caribbean land and development based on both historical and contemporary research.
BOOK REVIEWS
"The topic of this volume is very relevant to Caribbean studies and the editors are experienced Caribbean scholars, one a social anthropologist, the other a cultural geographer."
--Jerome Handler, Senior Fellow, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, University of Virginia"In this sequel to their highly-acclaimed 1987 volume dealing with land and development issues in the Caribbean, Jean Besson and Janet Momsen provide a treasury attesting to the centrality of land in the Caribbean development equation. The contribution of the text is strengthened by its coverage of land-development issues in parts of the Anglophone, Francophone, Hispanic and Dutch Caribbean. All in all, an essential read."--Rob Potter, Professor of Human Geography, University of Reading
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 140397392X
ISBN(13-digit): 9781403973924
Dewey Decimal: 333.7309729
Library of Congress: 2006033724
Book Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 276
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