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Caribbean Geography

Volume 14 Number 1

March 2005

Articles

1 Poverty Alleviation through Sustainable Tourism:

Livelihood Strategies in Anse La Raye, St Lucia Mychelle Mycoo

15 Agrochemicals usage and protective

clothing among small farmers in Hugh Semple,

Grenada and Jamaica Karyl Johnson & Camilla Arjoonsingh

31 Remote sensing as a tool for mapping and monitoring

habitat: a case study of the St Vincent parrot J. L. Delahunty

40 Globalization of agriculture: effects on social and

natural systems in rural communities of Jamaica Paulette Meikle-Yaw

55 The Cayo West Special Development Area, Belize:

towards sustainable land use planning? Liana Escott & Michael J. Day

Editor David Barker Book Review Editor David J.Miller

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Caribbean Geography

Volume 13 Number 2

September 2003

Articles

98 Editorial

100 Development typology, strategies and

priorities for small island states Calbert H. Douglas

114 Post-independence transformation of

secondary urban places in Jamaica Karen Thomas

130 Farmer perception of land degradation

and land quality in the Pindars river

sub-watershed, Clarendon, Jamaica Steve W. Bailey

145 Finding sustainable ways of staking yams

and sourcing yam sticks in Jamaica:

an environmental and economic imperative Clinton L. Beckford & David Barker

156 A geomorphic assessment of

karstlands in Trinidad Michael J. Day & M. Sean Chenoweth




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Caribbean Geography

Volume 13 Number 1March 2003

Articles

1 Editorial

3 Landscape and Environment in Belize: an introduction Michael J. Day

14 One forest, three nations: the biological

and cultural diversity of Belize Sharon Matola & Celso Poót

19 Jaguar monitoring in the Chiquibul Forest, Belize Marcella J. Kelly

33 Micro-environmental variability and tropical forest

composition in Belize Malcolm G. Penn,

Peter A. Furley & Malcolm R. Murray

52 Soils and ancient settlement in the Sibun River Valley,

Belize: environmental variability in the Maya Lowlands Pat Farrell

69 The Birds of Central Belize Victoria D. Piaskowski, Mario Teul,

Reynold N. Cal, Kari M. Williams

& Wilber E. Martinez

88 Remote sensing of citrus grove expansion in the

Cayo West Special Development Area, Belize M. Sean Chenoweth

& Michael J. Day




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Caribbean Geography

Volume 12 Number 2

September 2001

Articles

55 Towards a model for revitalizing older commercial

strips in downtown Kingston, Jamaica Hugh Semple & Marina Herbert

70 Narratives of socio-cultural adjustment among

young return migrants to St Lucia and Barbados Robert B. Potter

90 Natural Hazard Maps in Jamaica Rafi Ahmad

Geography in the Caribbean Classroom

108 New Teaching Resources for Guyana David Barker

A New Geography of Guyana (1999)

Deryck M. Bernard

Guyana: Population Environment and Economic Activities (2003)

Robert Ramraj

111 The population geography of Guyana:

historical perspectives and demographic trends Robert Ramraj




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Caribbean Geography

Volume 12 Number 1

March 2001

Articles

1 On Communicative Action and Power:

the National Commission on Sustainable

Development in Barbados Jonathan Pugh

11 Karst Conservation and Protected Areas

in northern Puerto Rico Banery Mujica-Ortiz & Michael Day

24 “Tales of Two Societies”:

young return migrants to St Lucia

and Barbados Robert B. Potter


44 Fieldwork and Geographical Education

in a Caribbean setting Joseph Prosper




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Caribbean Geography

Volume 11 Number 2

September 2000

Articles

67 Enduring constraints on cattle production in the

Caribbean: changing patterns on St Vincent Lawrence S. Grossman

81 Campismo Popular: the evolution of national

camping facilities during Cuba’s ‘special period’ Michael Cornebise

91 The informal commercial trade in yam sticks

in central Jamaica Clinton L. Beckford


100 The effects of storm surges on Caribbean coastal

areas: the case of Hurricane Lenny Yvette H.M. Beckford

108 Classic Reprint

A reassessment of the ‘traditional’ in Caribbean

small-scale agriculture Theo L. Hills & Stanley Iton




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Caribbean Geography

Volume 11 Number 1

March 2000

Editorial

1 Into the new millennium with a

website for Caribbean Geography

Articles

7 Land cover contrasts along the Jeffrey S. Wilson, Timothy S. Brothers

Haitian/Dominican Republic Border & Eugenio J. Marcano

20 Effects of milpa and conventional

agriculture of soil organic matter, structure

and mycorrhizal activity in Belize James A. Spurney & James C. Cavender

34 Coastal energy inputs, beach morphology

and sedimentological characteristics in

Trinidad Hayden Lackhai


44 Ecotourism in Cayman Brac L. Alan Eyre

58 Field research among small-scale farmers:

notes and tips for student interviewers Clinton L. Beckford




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Caribbean Geography

Volume 10 Number 2

September 1999

Articles

79 The Geography of Relative Affluence and

Poverty in Barbados Robert B. Potter

89 Downtown Revitalisation in Kingston,

Jamaica: an assessment Hugh M. Semple

103 A comparative study of the coastal

geomorphology of Sans Souci, Saline,

Quinam and Carenage Bays in Trinidad Hayden Lackhai

Geography in the Caribbean Clasroom

123 Primer on earthquake hazards in Jamaica Rafi Ahmad




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Caribbean GeographySpecial Issue:

Resources, Planning and Environmental

Management in a Changing Caribbean: Part 2

Volume 10 Number 1

March 1999

1 Editorial David Barker & Duncan McGregor

Articles

4 Colour, race and space: residential

segregation in Kingston, Jamaica, in the late

colonial period Colin Clarke & David Howard

19 Tourism in Dominica: influences on the

retail and service sector of Roseau Carola Bischoff

37 The Wreck of the Rhone Marine Park,

British Virgin Islands: a social and economic impact study Nancy K. Woodfield

52 Perspectives on the sustainability of Protected

Areas in Jamaica Learie A. Miller

63 The impact of urban management on access

to public transport in Port-of-Spain,

Trinidad Asad Mohammed & Angelique Balbosa-Philip




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Resources, Planning and Environmental

Management in a Changing Caribbean: Part 1

Volume 9 Number 2

September 1998

69 Editorial Duncan McGregor & David Barker

Articles

71 From Saint Domingue to Haiti: some

consequences of European colonisation on

the physical environment of Hispaniola Docent Per Lindskog

87 An assessment of Protected Karst

landscapes in the Caribbean Jeffrey A. Kueny & Michael J. Day

101 The tropical rainforests of the Eastern

Caribbean: present status and conservation L. Alan Eyre

121 Environmental problems in Guyana’s hinterland:

some policy considerations Patrick Williams

136 Developing an Index of Land Degradation:

some Jamaican examples Duncan McGregor, Andrew McCoubrey

& Rex Stidwell

148 Emergency Assistance as a critical catalyst

in future loss reduction planning Jeremy McA. Collymore

Editor David Barker Education Editor Mike Morrissey

Department of Geography & Geology Review Editor David J.Miller


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Caribbean Geography

Volume 9 Number 1

March 1998

Articles

1 Food consumption, export bananas,

and local crops in a Vincentian village Lawrence S. Grossman

14 Fish, Rice and the Meaning of Place: the

Political Ecology of the Nariva swamp, Trinidad Bjorn Sletto

30 An overview of domestic food production in

Guyana, 1960-1993 Hugh M. Semple & John S. Brierley

44 Aternative Tourism on St Vincent David Timothy Duval


58 The north-east trades and temperature inversions:

notes for the classroom David Barker

Review

66 Robert Aldrich and John Connell (1998)

The Last Colonies

(Reviewer: Stephen A. Royle)




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Postgraduate research at UWI Mona campus

Volume 8 Number 2

September 1997

65 Editorial

Articles

66 The Basket Weaving Tradition in the communities

of the Black River Lower Morass Althea M. Johnson

81 A review of quantitative techniques for measuring

Karst terrain, with examples from the Caribbean C.M.I. MacGillivray

96 Resource management, environmental knowledge and

decision-making in small farming systems in the Vileitha Davis-Morrison

Rio Grande valley, Jamaica & David Barker

107 The Jamaican dairy and beef industries: some

recent spatial, structural and development trends Rohan O. K-P. Campbell


120 The Carholm-Huxley landslides: an assessment of Arlington James

their impacts on the Lower Layou River valley, Dominica & Ted Serrant

Reviews

128 P.E.Williams, J.T. Parry & M.J.Eden (eds) (1997)

Land Use, Land Degradation and Land Management in Guyana

(reviewer: Balfour Spence)

129 David A. Simmonds & Janice Cumberbatch (1993)

The South East Peninsula Development Project on St Kitts-Nevis: a case study in

Sustainable Development

(reviewer: David J. Miller)




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Caribbean Geography

Volume 8 Number 1

March 1997

Articles

1 Volcano surveillance and hazard mitigation

in the Eastern Caribbean Richard E.A Robertson, Lloyd Lynch

& Joan Latchman

18 Community and NGO initiatives in coastal conservation:

lessons from Antigua & Barbuda Jerome L.McElroy &

Klaus de Albuquerque

32 International travel and consumer preferences

among secondary school students Elizabeth C. Babcock &

in Belize, Central America Richard R. Wilk

46 Evaluating the sustainable development of the

Kingston watersheds in Jamaica, 1980-1993 Jan de Graaff


57 Tourist Brochures as geography teaching material:

A Grenadian example Brian J.Hudson

Review

62 Barbara M. Welch (1996) Survival by Association:Supply Management Landscapes

of the Eastern Caribbean

(reviewer: David Barker)




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Caribbean Geography

Volume 7 Number 2

September 1996

Articles

81 Offshore financial centres in the Caribbean:

potential and pitfalls Anja K. Possekel

97 The status of plant communities in the Todd A. Radenbaugh &

Duncans Bay area on Jamaica’s north coast Adrian A. Seaborne

113 The influence of parent material,

geomorphology and land use on physical Philip Reeder, Michael Day &

and chemical properties in the Belize River Valley soils Edward Alt

132 The influence of small farmers’ land-use

decisions on the status of domestic food

security in Jamaica Balfour Spence


143 The natural gas industry of Trinidad and Tobago Mark Wilson

Review

151 Stephen K. Donovan & Trevor A. Jackson (eds)(1994)

Caribbean Geology: An Introduction

(reviewer: David J.Miller)


Department of Geography Review Editor David J.Miller


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Resource Sustainability and Caribbean Development

Volume 7 Number 1

March 1996

1 Editorial Duncan McGregor, David Barker & Sally Lloyd Evans

Articles

3 Coastal flood hazard in Guyana:

environmental and economic causes Mark Pelling

23 Environmental hazards in Barbados:

perception and response in the Scotland District

and the west coast Lewis Hanna

36 Threshold, carrying capacity and the sustainability

of tourism: a case study of Belize George Hughes & Peter Furley

52 Promoting environmental and social gain though

ecotourism: Cuban and international perspectives Diana Williams

62 The evolution of export banana cultivation in Dominica

and St Lucia: implications for sustainability Barbara Welch


75 The Port of Spain urban corridor Robert B. Potter




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Caribbean Geography

Volume 6 Number 2

September 1995

Articles

77 Strategic planning for volcanic emergencies in Richard E. A. Robertson,

the Commonwealth Eastern Caribbean W.B. Ambeh & L.Lynch

97 Land use and land use legislation for Crown

lands in St Vincent Arthur Limbird

112 Ecological processes and local uses in

National Park Armando Bermudez,

Dominican Republic Susan C. Miller

128 Soils and vegetation in a forest-savanna

transition zone in southern Belize A.C.S. Wright & I.C. Baillie


143 The potential of geography as a vehicle

for achieving national sustainable development David Barker

Reviews

153 Cliff Ollier & Colin Pain (1996) Regolith, Soils and Landforms

(reviewer Stephen K. Donovan)

155 Neil E. Sealey (1994) Bahamian Landscapes: An Introduction to the

Geography of the Bahamas

(reviewer David J.Miller)




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Issues in Caribbean Sustainable Development

Part 2

Volume 6 Number 1

March 1995

1 Editorial David Barker

Articles

2 Environmental degradation, the water resource and

sustainable development in the Eastern Caribbean David Watts

16 Environmental protection policies in Caribbean small

islands: some St Lucian examples Dennis Conway and Paul Lorah

28 An unsustainable path: tourism’s vulnerability to

environmental decline in Antigua Paul Lorah

40 Tourism in Dominica: problems and prospects

Debra A. Sharkey and Janet Henshall Momsen

52 The marginalisation of women farmers: gender and

small-scale agriculture in Barbados, 1838-1935 Janet Henshall Momsen


61 Caribs, creoles and concepts of territory:

the boundary between France and Dominica Lennox Honychurch

Reviews

71 David Alexander (1993) Natural Disasters

(reviewer David J. Miller)

73 Michael F. Thomas (1994) Geomorphology in the Tropics:a study of weathering and

denudation in low latitudes

(reviewer Stephen K.Donovan)




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Issues in Caribbean Sustainable Development

Part 1

Volume 5 Number 2

September 1994

79 Editorial Elizabeth Thomas-Hope

Articles

81 Caribbean industrialization as sustainable

development: exploring the contradictions Davin Ramphall

92 Some observations concerning postmodernity

and sustainable development in the Caribbean

Robert B. Potter & Graham M.S. Dann

102 Maidenforming the Caribbean: concerns about

Jamaica’s industrial export promotion policy Thomas Klak

117 Jamaica’s back office: direct dial development

or dependency? Mark Wilson

127 Sisyphus revisited: grassroots development and

community conflict in Haiti Robert E. Maguire


136 Geography in the curriculum of elementary schools

in the late 19th century Jamaica Ruby King

Reviews

144 William B. Ambeh (ed) (1994) Proceedings of the Caribbean Conference on Natural

Hazards, Volcanoes Earthquakes, Windstorms, Floods

(reviewer Cheryl Phillip-Jordan)

145 Tsuguo Sunamura (1992) Geomorphology of Rocky Coasts

(reviewer Stephen K.Donovan)




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Caribbean Geography

Volume 5 Number 1

March 1994

Articles

1 Tourism as a development tool: Louis A. Woods, Joseph M. Perry

the case of Belize & Jeffrey W. Steagall

20 Montserrat kitchen gardens: social

functions and development potential David A. Thomasson

32 Jamaica’s settlement vegetation,

agroecology, and the origin of agriculture John Rashford

51 The Cayman Islands: economic growth and

immigration in a British Colony John Connell


67 Tainos not Arawaks: the indigenous peoples

of Jamaica and the Greater Antilles Basil Reid

Reviews

72 J.W. Galloway (1989)The sugar cane industry: an historical geography from

its origins to 1914

(reviewer David Barker)

74 George A. Maul (ed) (1991) Climate Change in the Intra-Americas Sea: Implications

for future climate on the ecosystems and socio-economic structure in the marine and

coastal regions of the Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, Bahamas, and the northeast

coast of South America

(reviewer Duncan McGregor)

75 Kevin Yelvington (ed) (1993)Trinidad Ethnicity

(reviewer Carolyn V. Prorok)




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Caribbean Geography

Volume 4 Number 2

September 1993

Articles

77 The progress of Caribbean Geography, 1983-93 David Barker

89 Global process, local change: adjustment in

urban Jamaica Jeremy Holland

102 Challenging economic irrelevance: the role of

banana growers’ associations in St Lucia

and Martinique Barbara Welch

116 Rethinking the consequences of remittances

for Eastern Caribbean development Dennis Conway


131 Anguilla: the tourist trajectory in an

island microstate John Connell

138 The Airport West-Coast Highway in Barbados: a source

for School-Based Assessment activities Anthony D. Griffith & Janet F. Foster

Reviews

143 Robert B. Potter (1992) Housing Conditions in Barbados:

a geographical analysis

(reviewer Dennis Conway)

144 Linda C.K.Shane & Edward J. Cushing (eds) (1991)

Quaternary landscapes


147 Notices




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Caribbean Geography

Volume 4 Number 1

March 1993

Articles

1 Editorial

2 Point score analysis of agricultural

decision-making in the Dominican Republic Roy Ryder

15 Vegetation and slope stability: examples

from Upper St Andrew, Jamaica Russell J. Maharaj

28 East Indian muslims and their mosques in Trinidad:

a geography of religious structures and the politics

of ethnic identity Carolyn V. Prorok & Mohammad Hemmasi

49 Population mobility and land assets in hill

farming areas of Jamaica Elizabeth Thomas-Hope


64 A note on InterGeo II and test results

for Jamaica Mike Morrissey

Reviews

72 Rafi Ahmad (Ed) (1992) Natural Hazards in the Caribbean

Journal of the Geological Society of Jamaica, Special Issue #12

(reviewer David J.Miller)

74 Neil MacDonald (1990) The Caribbean: Making our own choices

(reviewer L. Alan Eyre)

75 Helmut Blume (1992) Colour Atlas of the Surface Forms of the Earth





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Caribbean GeographyEnvironment and Development in small island states

Volume 3 Number 4

September 1992

213 Editorial David Barker & Duncan McGregor

Articles

215 Future Caribbean donor landscapes: a geographic

interpretation of contemporary trends Gene C. Wilken

223 Spatio-temporal trends in root crop production and

marketing in Jamaica Paulette Meikle

236 Caribbean views on environment and development:

a cognitive perspective Robert B. Potter

244 A preliminary assessment of the economic cost of land

degradation: the Hermitage catchment, Jamaica Learie A. Miller

253 The effects of forest clearance on soil conservation:

preliminary findings from the Yallahs valley, M.A.McDonald, J.R. Healey

Jamaican Blue Mountains & P.V. Devi Prasad

261 The small island as colony Stephen A. Royle


270 The UWI scholarship examination in geography:

an analysis of the 1992 results David Barker

Reviews

275 Neville A.T. Hall (1992) Slave Society in the Danish West Indies: St Thomas,

St John and St Croix (reviewer Bonham C. Richardson)

277 V. Barzetti and Y. Rovinski (eds) (1992) Towards a Green central America

integrating conservation and development (reviewer L.Alan Eyre)

Book for Caribbean Schools

279 Mike Morrissey & Graham Hart (1992) Practical skills for Caribbean Geography

(reviewer Laurence Neuville)

281 Robert B. Potter (1992) Urbanisation in the Third World

(reviewer Anne Lyew-Ayee)




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Volume 3 Number 3

March 1992

Articles

143 Intensified dependence on a maturing mining sector:

the Jamaican bauxite levy R. M. Auty

160 Adaptation to agricultural change among Garifuna

women in Hopkins, Belize Elaine Bliss

175 Pesticides, people and the environment in St Vincent Lawrence S.Grossman

187 The landscapes of Cayuna: Jamaica through the senses

of John Herne Brian J.Hudson


200 Industrial Free Zones in the Dominican Republic Milagros Nanita-Kennett

Books for Caribbean Schools

205 David Waugh (1990) Geography- An Integrated Approach

(reviewer Vernon C. Mulchansingh)

Reviews

208 Cliff Ollier (1991) Ancient Landforms


209 Bonham C. Richardson (1992) The Caribbean in the Wider World 1492-1992:

A Regional Geography

(reviewer Brian J.Hudson)

210 David Clement (1990) An Analysis of a Disaster: Life after Gilbert

(reviewer Jeremy Collymore)

211 Haraldur Sigurdssen & Steven Carey (1991) Caribbean Volcanoes:

A Field Guide - Martinique, Dominica and St Vincent

(reviewer Trevor Jackson)




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Caribbean Geography

Volume 3 Number 2

September 1991

Articles

73 Evolution of the Hindu Temple in Trinidad Carolyn V. Prorok

94 Throughflow in fine-textured soils in the coastal I.C.Bailie, J.P.Carr,

lowlands of southern Belize G.A Gibson

& A.C.S.Wright

107 An analysis of housing in Grenada, St Lucia and

St Vincent and the Grenadines Robert B. Potter


126 Curacao: restructuring in the 1980s and 1990s Eddy H. Baetens

132 Testing for Caribbean content in the CXC

geography programme Anthony D. Griffith

134 Update: Trends in CXC results for Jamaica David Barker

Reviews

135 Watts D. (1987) The West Indies: Patterns of Development,

Culture and Environment since 1492

(reviewer L. Alan Eyre)

137 Gale, S.J. & Hoare, P.G. (1991) Quaternary Sediments: Petrographic

methods for the study of unlithified rocks


139 Sealey, N.E. (1990) The Bahamas Today: an introduction to the Human

and Economic Geography of the Bahamas

(reviewer David Barker)

140 Potter, R.B. (1989) Urbanization, Planning and Development in the Caribbean

(reviewer Balfour Spence)

142 Notices




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Caribbean Geography

Volume 3 Number 1

March 1991

2 Editorial

Articles

3 The significance of the geography of

The Bahamas in reconstructing Columbus’s

route in 1492 Neil E.Sealey

15 Kitchen gardens in the Caribbean,

past and present: their role in small farm

development John S.Brierley

29 Determining the significance of

landslide activity: examples from

the Eastern Caribbean Jerome V. DeGraff

43 Statehood, the Commons and the landscape

in Barbuda Riva Berleant-Schiller

53 The Turks and Caicos Islands:

beyond the Quest for Independence John Connell


63 Decline in CXC geography candidates

64 L. Alan Eyre retires from UWI

66 Textbooks for Caribbean Schools

67 Conceptual problems in teaching physical geography Neil Sealey

Reviews

69 Moldenhauer, W.C. & Hudson N.W. (eds) (1988) Conservation and Farming on Steep

Slopes (reviewer Learie A.Miller)

71 Day, M.J. (ed) (1987) Environment and Resources of the Hummingbird Karst

(reviewer David Miller)




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