| Resources, Planning, and Environmental Management in a Changing Caribbean Contributor(s): Barker, David (Editor), McGregor, Duncan (Editor) |
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ISBN: 9766401349 ISBN-13: 9789766401344 Publisher: University of the West Indies Press OUR PRICE: $52.25 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 2003 Annotation: This volume reports on current research by geographers and others into resource management and planning issues in the Caribbean region. The chapters have been selected from the thirty-five papers presented at the Third British-Caribbean Geography Seminar held at the Mona campus of the University of the West Indies, suitably revised and edited for publication. The common theme of the meeting and of this collection is the search for developmental strategies that focus on social and economic needs of people without further deterioration of the region's fragile environmental resource base, in the context of a rapidly changing political and economic world. The eighteen chapters focus on a variety of topics, emphasizing the complexities of environmental management in a changing Caribbean at the dawn of the millennium, including tourism, its mixed benefits and problems, and all emphasize the importance of promoting new interest in the care and stewardship of the region's environmental heritage. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Nature | Ecosystems & Habitats - Oceans & Seas - Nature | Environmental Conservation & Protection - General |
| Dewey: 333.709 |
| Lexile Measure: 1450 |
| Physical Information: 0.77" H x 6.36" W x 8.98" (1.05 lbs) 282 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This volume reports on contemporary research by geographers and others into resource management and planning issues in the Caribbean region. The common theme is the search for developmental strategies that focus on social and economic needs without further deterioration of the resource base. |