Global Change and Caribbean Vulnerability: Environment, Economy and Society at Risk
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Language
English
ISBN
978-976-640-221-1
Contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Part 1. Caribbean Vulnerability and Global Change
1. Caribbean Vulnerability and Global Change: Contemporary Perspectives
2. Caribbean Vulnerability: Development of an Appropriate Climatic Framework
Part 2. Managing Vulnerable Environments
3. Hurricanes or Tsunami? Comparative Analysis of Extensive Boulder Arrays Along the Southwest and North Coasts of Jamaica
4. An Investigation into the Causes and Consequences of Coastal Flooding in Guyana
5. Potential Impacts of Anthropogenic Environmental Change on the Caribbean Karst
6. Environmental Vulnerability and Ecosystem Services in the Jamaican Tourist Industry
7. Framing Vulnerability in Jamaica’s Cockpit Country: Economic and Political Constraints on Scientific Claims
8. Building Capacity and Resilience to Adapt to Change: The Case of the Blue and John Crow Mountains National Park
Part 3. Vulnerability andDomestic Food Supply
9. Environmental Change and Caribbean Food Security: Recent Hazard Impacts and Domestic Food Production in Jamaica
10. Vulnerability, Constraints and Survival on Small-Scale Food Farms in Southern St Elizabeth, Jamaica: Strengthening Local Food Production Systems
11. (Re)defining the Link? Globalization, Tourism and the Jamaican Food Supply Network
Part 4. Urban Vulnerability and Urban Change
12. From Slum to Ghetto: Multiple Deprivation in Kingston, Jamaica
13. Asset-Based Responses to Urban Vulnerability: An Analysis of Livelihood Strategies in Waterhouse, Jamaica
14. Urban Violence, Crime and the Threat to “Democratic Security” in the Dominican Republic
15. Conflicting Environments Negotiating Social and Ecological Vulnerabilities in Urban Jamaica and Curaçao
16. Caribbean Urban Livelihoods and Policies: Targeting Assets, Vulnerability and Diversity
Part 5. Synthesis
17. Beyond Caribbean Vulnerability: Towards Resistance and Resilience
Contributors
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