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1 online resource (403 p.) |
| Contents |
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? |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Global environmental change.
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Climatic changes -- Caribbean Area
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Regional planners -- Caribbean Area
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Climatic changes.
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Ecology.
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Global environmental change.
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Regional planners.
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| SUBJECT |
Caribbean Area -- Environmental conditions
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| Subject |
Caribbean Area.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
McGregor, Duncan F. M
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Rhiney, Kevon
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Edwards, Thera
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| ISBN |
9766406022 |
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9789766406028 |
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