Beyond sun and sand Caribbean environmentalisms /

Beyond sun and sand Caribbean environmentalisms / [electronic resource] : edited by Sherrie L. Baver, Barbara Deutsch Lynch. - New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2006. - vii, 210 p.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-189) and index.

Issues and movements. The political ecology of paradise / Sherrie L. Baver and Barbara Deutsch Lynch -- Environmental movements in the Caribbean / The political ecology of sun and sand. Paradise sold, paradise lost: Jamaica's environment and culture in the tourism marketplace / Historical contentions and future trends in the coastal zones: the environmental movement in Puerto Rico / The struggle for sustainable tourism in Martinique / Behind the beach: productive landscapes and environmental change. Puerto Rico: economic and environmental overview / Seeking agricultural sustainability: Cuban and Dominican strategies / "Ni una bomba mas:" reframing the Vieques struggle / Risky environments and the Caribbean diaspora. Environmental justice for Puerto Ricans in the northeast: a participant-observer's assessment / Environmental risk and childhood disease in an urban working-class Caribbean neighborhood / Conclusion: toward a Creole envrionmentalism / Barbara Deutsch Lynch. Francine Jacome -- Marian A.L. Miller -- Manuel Valdes Pizzini -- Maurice Burac -- Neftali Garcia-Martinez ... [et al.] -- Barbara Deutsch Lynch -- Katherine T. McCaffrey and Sherrie Baver -- Ricardo Soto-Lopez -- Lorraine C. Minnite and Immanuel Ness --


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Environmental policy--Caribbean Area.
Environmentalism--Caribbean Area.


Electronic books.

GE190.C27 / B49 2006

333.72/09729