This is the fifth in a series of volumes published by UWI Press exploring how geographical and cognate research is being applied to address key environmental problems in the Caribbean region. Global Change and the Caribbean highlights how current research is addressing the consequences of change, forced by global warming and climate change, and driven by globalization and population growth. The book takes forward issues of regional and community vulnerability, and focuses on the search for solutions in terms of adaptation, resilience and societal transformation.
The question of transformation is debated by authors and the editors in drawing together the prospects for regional and community resilience. The chapters are presented as a series of original, empirical research contributions which have the common theme of the search for development strategies that focus on social and economic needs of the people without further deterioration of the region's fragile environmental resource base.
The book will be essential reading at first-degree and master's levels in institutions with Caribbean-focused courses relating to geography, and in multidisciplinary areas such as development studies, social studies, environmental management, planning and resource management. The approaches and case studies presented here will be of significant interest to regional planners, resource management specialists and public sector officials.
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Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: Adaptation and Resilience: Changing Caribbean Perspectives
Duncan McGregor, David Barker, Kevon Rhiney and Thera Edwards
Part 1: Regional, National and Sectoral Approaches: Vulnerability, Adaptation and Resilience
Chapter 2: Caribbean Tourism and Urban Development: Resilience and Adaptation to Global Change over Five Hundred Years
William C. Found
Chapter 3: The 2014 Jamaican Drought: Climate Change or Interannual Climate Variability?
Shaina Poore, Alex A. Moulton, Douglas W. Gamble, Scott Curtis and Jeff Popke
Chapter 4: The Insurance Trap: Banana Farming in Dominica after Hurricane Hugo
Chris Knudson
Chapter 5: A Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment of the Critical Infrastructure of St Kitts to Projected Impacts of Climate Change
Elmo Burke and Janice Cumberbatch
Part 2: Community-Level Vulnerability: Adaptive Capacity and Social Capital
Chapter 6: Assessing Vulnerability and Resilience to Climate Change in Jamaica: Directions for Community-Based Research in the Caribbean
Kevon Rhiney, Donovan Campbell and David Barker
Chapter 7: Comparative Vulnerabilities and Adaptation Strategies of Caribbean Fishers: The Case of Old Harbour Bay, Jamaica
April K. Baptiste
Chapter 8: Challenge, Change and the Expression of Social Capital in Kingston, Jamaica and Rural St Lucia
Robert Kinlocke and Chanelle Fingal-Robinson
Chapter 9: Social Capital and Rural Resilience among the Carib Communities in Northeastern St Vincent
Rose-Ann Smith
Part 3: Participatory Approaches: Local Knowledge and Community Resilience
Chapter 10: Relationships between a World Heritage Site and Its Contiguous Communities: A Case Study of Dominica in the International Context
Thomas Klak and Joseph Simonowicz
Chapter 11: Policies and Practices: Identifying Synergies and Conflict for Indigenous Community Sustainability in the Guiana Shield, South America
Jayalaxshmi Mistry, Céline Tschirhart, Andrea Berardi, Odacy Davis, Elisa Bignante, Lakeram Haynes, Ryan Benjamin, Grace Albert, Rebecca Xavier, Bernie Robertson, Deirdre Jafferally, Caspar Verwer, Rob Glastra and Géraud de Ville
Chapter 12: Design Charrettes: An Approach to Community Climate Change Adaptation in Tobago
Luna Khirfan
Chapter 13: Climate Change: Local Perceptions and Adaptation Perspectives from Guyana and Suriname
Paulette Bynoe
Conclusion
Chapter 14: Retrospect and Prospect: Th¬e British-Caribbean Geography Seminar Series
David Barker and Duncan McGregor
Contributors
DAVID BARKER is Emeritus Professor of Geography, Department of Geography and Geology, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica.
DUNCAN McGREGOR is Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London, and Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.
KEVON RHINEY lectures in the Department of Geography and Geology, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica.
THERA EDWARDS is Map Curator, Department of Geography and Geology, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica.
