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Global Change and the Caribbean Adaptation and Resilience.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Kingston :
University of the West Indies Press,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Adaptation and Resilience: Changing Caribbean Perspectives
- 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
- Chapter 3: The 2014 Jamaican Drought: Climate Change or Interannual Climate Variability?
- Chapter 4: The Insurance Trap: Banana Farming in Dominica after Hurricane Hugo
- Chapter 5: A Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment of the Critical Infrastructure of St Kitts to Projected Impacts of Climate Change
- 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
- Chapter 7: Comparative Vulnerabilities and Adaptation Strategies of Caribbean Fishers: The Case of Old Harbour Bay, Jamaica
- Chapter 8: Challenge, Change and the Expression of Social Capital in Kingston, Jamaica and Rural St Lucia
- Chapter 9: Social Capital and Rural Resilience among the Carib Communities in Northeastern St Vincent
- 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
- Chapter 11: Policies and Practices: Identifying Synergies and Conflict for Indigenous Community Sustainability in the Guiana Shield, South America
- Chapter 12: Design Charrettes: An Approach to Community Climate Change Adaptation in Tobago
- Chapter 13: Climate Change: Local Perceptions and Adaptation Perspectives from Guyana and Suriname
- Conclusion
- Chapter 14: Retrospect and Prospect: The British-Caribbean Geography Seminar Series
- Contributors