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Author : Marcus Colchester
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015041333355
Examines three environmental issues in Guyana: gold mining, logging of tropical forests, and abuse of the indigenous people, the Amerindians. Describes the role of foreign enterprises in exploiting the country's natural resources.
Author : Marcus Colchester
Publisher : Latin America Bureau (Lab)
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173004906730
Examines three environmental issues in Guyana: gold mining, logging of tropical forests, and abuse of the indigenous people, the Amerindians. Describes the role of foreign enterprises in exploiting the country's natural resources.
Author : Barry Munslow
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780429763458
First published in 1998, this volume uses Guyana as an excellent, comprehensive case study to examine various sectors’ operations, effects upon the environment and the ways in which the sector can impact upon the vitality and development potential of other sectors. The authors attempt to demonstrate how it is possible to adjust current sectoral activities for improved resource utilisation. They begin in the interior looking at mining and forest resource exploitation. Attention then moves towards the coast, looking at agriculture, fishing, human settlement and service provision. A review of industry, transport and energy follows before examining biodiversity, tourism and the Amerindian community. Finally, a detailed analysis is presented of the challenges to be faced in devising a sustainable development national strategy.
Author : Johannes Gerrit de Kruijf
Publisher : Rozenberg Publishers
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789036100588
Author : Thomas Henfrey
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785339899
Based on an ethnographic account of subsistence use of Amazonian forests by Wapishana people in Guyana, Edges, Frontiers, Fringes examines the social, cultural and behavioral bases for sustainability and resilience in indigenous resource use. Developing an original framework for holistic analysis, it demonstrates that flexible interplay among multiple modes of environmental understanding and decision-making allows the Wapishana to navigate social-ecological complexity successfully in ways that reconcile short-term material needs with long-term maintenance and enhancement of the resource base.
Author : Dennis C. Canterbury
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781003815969
This book explores the impact of resource extraction and the dynamics of great powers competing for natural resources in the Caribbean. The book analyzes labour–capital relations between China, the United States, the European Union, and Russia in the Caribbean, as competition increases with the arrival of non-traditional sources of foreign investments in infrastructure from the East. Chapters assess these dynamics through varying historical and current forms of worker, community, and organization resistance in the Caribbean’s extractive industries from the 1970s to the present. In doing so, the book critically analyzes the interplay of extractive capital with labour unions, community organizations, management, and the state, particularly regarding the struggle for higher wages, improved working conditions, and the broader issues of extractive capitalism and underdevelopment, dispossession, social exclusion, and environmental degradation. The first book on Extractivism and Labour in the Caribbean and a major contribution to critical development studies literature, it will appeal to policymakers as well as students and scholars in the fields of development studies, development economics, sociology, politics, and international relations.
Author : Jacqueline West
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 974 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1857431219
South America, Central America and the Caribbean 2002has been thoroughly revised and updated by Europa's experienced editorial team. The information included is as invaluable to those who know little of the region as it is to the seasoned businessman or academic. It should be in the reference collections of public and academic libraries, international organizations, trade and industrial companies, diplomats, government and the media. Containing a wealth of up-to-date information on the 48 countries and territories of the region, this reference provides a unique perspective on the region with its exhaustive collection of facts, up-to-date statistics, extensive directory details and expert comment.
Author : Europa Publications
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 992 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 1857431383
Introductory surveys cover topics of regional importance; individual country chapters include analysis, statistics and directory information; plus information on regional organizations
Author : K. Deonandan,D. Close
Publisher : Springer
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230609778
This volume is a series of original articles analyzing eleven case studies (from Africa and the Americas) of revolutionary movements that have reconstituted themselves into formal political parties. The book's analyzes the factors influencing the success and failure of these former politico-military movements within their new democratic contexts.
Author : J. Peter Brosius,Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing,Charles Zerner
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0759105065
A group of distinguished environmentalists analyze and advocate for community-based natural resource management (CBNRM). They offer an overview of this transnational movement and its links between environmental management and social justice agendas. This book will be valuable to instructors, practitioners, and activists in environmental anthropology, justice, and policy, in cultural geography, political ecology, indigenous rights, conservation biology, and community-based cultural resource management.
Author : Cynthia Barrow-Giles,Don D. Marshall
Publisher : Ian Randle Publishers
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789766371487
"The idea that the Caribbean could be devolving downward in wealth, function and sovereignty has become a recurrent theme in both academic and popular literature. By focusing on some of the current issues facing Caribbean nation states, the editors and contributors to this volume hope to inform and contribute to the ongoing debate on the broad themes of Sovereignty and Development and the prospects for survival of Caribbean nation states in a globalised world. While some of the papers seek to describe and analyse the range and complexity of the challenge to national sovereignty and public policy autonomy, others focus on issues relating to small country size, gender and ethnic tensions, security, constitutional reform and regional integration. The result is a balanced perspective; the contributors do not gloss over the problem faced by the region. At the same time they do not present a hyper-pessimistic picture of Caribbean development prospects. What gives the collection a particular dynamism is the way in which the authors have challenged the terrain of political possibilities traditionally defined for small peripheral socities. "
Author : F. Bird,S. Herman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230522503
We live in a globally interconnected but economically divided world where internationally linked businesses can play a significant role in helping and/or obstructing the development of impoverished countries. Through a series of case studies, this volume examines what can be learned, both positively and critically, from the experiences of selected internationally connected firms in Nigeria, Uganda, Ghana, Vietnam, Guyana, and the Nunavik region of northern Canada. This book begins with a set of reflections on the strategies firms might adopt so that they develop both their own assets as well as those of the areas in which they operate. A team of more than two dozen researchers from the developed and developing countries conducted the research on which the essays on this and subsequent volumes are based. Dr Frederick Bird from Concordia University in Montreal directed the overall research project.
Author : D. S. Hammond
Publisher : CABI
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1845930924
The Guiana Shield is an ancient geological formation located in the northern part of South America, covering an area of one million square kilometres. Despite its hostile environment, it is home to many unusual and highly specialized plants and animals, which constitute a rich area of biodiversity. Chapters in this book include hydrology, nutrient cycling, forest phenology, insect-plant interactions, forest microclimate, plant distributions, forest dynamics and conservation and management of flora and fauna. It provides a comprehensive and detailed review of the ecology, biology and natural history of the forests of the area.
Author : Lawrence Boudon,Katherine D. McCann
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 998 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0292705352
"The one source that sets reference collections on Latin American studies apart from all other geographic areas of the world.... The Handbook has provided scholars interested in Latin America with a bibliographical source of a quality unavailable to scholars in most other branches of area studies." —Latin American Research Review Beginning with volume 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, the most comprehensive annual bibliography in the field. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and annotated by a corps of more than 130 specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year between social sciences and humanities. The Handbook annotates works on Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and the Guianas, Spanish South America, and Brazil, as well as materials covering Latin America as a whole. Most of the subsections are preceded by introductory essays that serve as biannual evaluations of the literature and research under way in specialized areas. The Handbook of Latin American Studies is the oldest continuing reference work in the field. Lawrence Boudon, of the Library of Congress Hispanic Division, has been the editor since 2001, and Katherine D. McCann has been assistant editor since 2000. The subject categories for Volume 59 are as follows: Anthropology Economics Geography Government and Politics International Relations Sociology Electronic Resources for the Social Sciences
Author : Thomas Henfrey
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780244043742
This landmark monograph in ethnoecology is now available in print format for the first time. Based on long-term fieldwork in Guyana during 1998, 1999 and 2000, it examines relationships between the ecological knowledge of Wapishana hunters and equivalent areas of ecological science. It places this in the ethnographic context of Wapishana settlement, subsistence and symbolism, and the wider context of the political ecology of Guyanas economic liberalisation and the consequent exposure of the indigenous peoples of Guyanas Rupununi region to extractive industries and international conservation interests for the first time. The result is a robust argument, grounded in extensive data and analysis, for alternative trajectories in conservation and international development rooted in the skills, knowledge and interests of indigenous users and custodians of biodiversity.