Global Change and Caribbean Vulnerability: Environment, Economy and Society at Risk

by McGregor, Duncan

• ISBN13: 9789766402211
• ISBN10: 9766402213
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-10-30
• Publisher: Univ of West Indies Pr

Summary

The Caribbean region is facing many challenges in the early years of the twenty-first century, including global warming, population growth, globalization and trade liberalization. This volume makes a significant contribution to the literature, with a range of authors from geography and other disciplines showing how current research is addressing rapid change in the region. This is the fourth volume in a series published by the University of the West Indies Press that has focused on the search for development strategies that address the social and economic needs of the people without further deterioration of the region's fragile environmental resource base. This volume focuses upon the vulnerabilities of peoples and their environments, and emphasizes the importance of a multidisciplinary approach in this applied research field. Among the issues examined are climate change, sustainable food production systems, urban planning and community development, and coastal management. The editors conclude the volume by developing the critical research agenda on these and other issues. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Duncan McGregor is Senior Lecturer in Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London, and Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. David Dodman is Researcher in Human Settlements and Climate Change at the International Institute for Environment and Development, London, and was formerly Lecturer in Human Geography, Department of Geography and Geology, University of the West Indies, Jamaica. David Barker is Professor of Geography and Head, Department of Geography and Geology, University of the West Indies, Jamaica. He is the editor of Caribbean Geography and President of the Jamaican Geographical Society.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Preface	p. xv
Acknowledgements	p. xix
Caribbean Vulnerability and Global Change
Caribbean Vulnerability and Global Change: Contemporary Perspectives	p. 3
Caribbean Vulnerability Development of an Appropriate Climatic Framework	p. 22
Managing Vulnerable Environments
Hurricanes or Tsunami? Comparative Analysis of Extensive Boulder Arrays Along the Southwest and North Coasts of Jamaica: Lessons for Coastal Management	p. 49
An Investigation into the Causes and Consequences of Coastal Flooding in Guyana	p. 74
Potential Impacts of Anthropogenic Environmental Change on the Caribbean Karst	p. 100
Environmental Vulnerability and Ecosystem Services in the Jamaican Tourist Industry	p. 123
Framing Vulnerability in Jamaica's Cockpit Country: Economic and Political Constraints on Scientific Claims	p. 142
Building Capacity and Resilience to Adapt to Change: The Case of the Blue and John Crow Mountains National Park	p. 165
Vulnerability and Domestic Food Supply
Environmental Change and Caribbean Food Security: Recent Hazard Impacts and Domestic Food Production in Jamaica	p. 197
Vulnerability, Constraints and Survival on Small-Scale Food Farms in Southern St Elizabeth, Jamaica: Strengthening Local Food Production Systems	p. 218
(Re)defining the Link? Globalization, Tourism and the Jamaican Food Supply Network	p. 237
Urban Vulnerability and Urban Change
From Slum to Ghetto: Multiple Deprivation in Kingston, Jamaica	p. 261
Asset-Based Responses to Urban Vulnerability: An Analysis of Livelihood Strategies in Waterhouse, Jamaica	p. 279
Urban Violence, Crime and the Threat to "Democratic Security" in the Dominican Republic	p. 298
Conflicting Environments: Negotiating Social and Ecological Vulnerabilities in Urban Jamaica and Curaçao	p. 317
Caribbean Urban Livelihoods and Policies: Targeting Assets, Vulnerability and Diversity	p. 336
Synthesis
Beyond Caribbean Vulnerability: Towards Resistance and Resilience	p. 365
Contributors	p. 385
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