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Title Beyond sun and sand [electronic resource] : Caribbean environmentalisms / edited by Sherrie L. Baver, Barbara Deutsch Lynch.

Imprint New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2006.

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Description vii, 210 p.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-189) and index.
Contents Issues and movements. The political ecology of paradise / Sherrie L. Baver and Barbara Deutsch Lynch -- Environmental movements in the Caribbean / Francine Jacome -- The political ecology of sun and sand. Paradise sold, paradise lost: Jamaica's environment and culture in the tourism marketplace / Marian A.L. Miller -- Historical contentions and future trends in the coastal zones: the environmental movement in Puerto Rico / Manuel Valdes Pizzini -- The struggle for sustainable tourism in Martinique / Maurice Burac -- Behind the beach: productive landscapes and environmental change. Puerto Rico: economic and environmental overview / Neftali Garcia-Martinez ... [et al.] -- Seeking agricultural sustainability: Cuban and Dominican strategies / Barbara Deutsch Lynch -- "Ni una bomba mas:" reframing the Vieques struggle / Katherine T. McCaffrey and Sherrie Baver -- Risky environments and the Caribbean diaspora. Environmental justice for Puerto Ricans in the northeast: a participant-observer's assessment / Ricardo Soto-Lopez -- Environmental risk and childhood disease in an urban working-class Caribbean neighborhood / Lorraine C. Minnite and Immanuel Ness -- Conclusion: toward a Creole envrionmentalism / Barbara Deutsch Lynch.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Environmental policy -- Caribbean Area.
Environmentalism -- Caribbean Area.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Baver, Sherrie L.
Lynch, Barbara D.
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0813536537 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0813536545 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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