The concept of sustainability lies at the core of the challenge of environment and
development and the way governments, business and environmental groups respond to it …

Now in its second edition. This text has been extensively revised and rewritten to reflect the
growth in environmental research during the last decade. Human-induced environmental …

This text focuses on the contemporary economic, social, geographical, environmental and
political realities of the Caribbean region. Historical aspects of the Caribbean, such as …

Many researchers in the Caribbean have protested the generally negative stereotyping of
small–scale farmers and the small–scale domestic agricultural sector. The essence of this …

With the exception of Haiti, the sensationalized issues of hunger reported in certain parts of
the developing world are largely unknown in the Caribbean. Despite this, there are growing …

Harvesting wild food is an important coping strategy to deal with food insecurity in farming
households across the Caribbean. The practice is tightly connected to the region's unique …

This book focuses on the post-emancipation period in the Caribbean and how local
societies dealt with the new socio-economic conditions. Scholars from Jamaica, the Virgin …

Understanding human–wildlife interactions within biocultural systems is essential to support
evidence‐based conservation and Indigenous cultural integrity, and to identify inclusive “win …

The post-emancipation era in the Caribbean region was marked by both rooting and
uprooting among the former plantation slaves. Some proto peasants, who had cultivated …

For centuries, small-scale farmers in Jamaica have managed and cultivated a variety of
plants for use as subsistence and market crops, fodder, construction materials, and …