Illustrated by case studies from both smaller nations - such as Carriacou, Barbados and St Lucia - and larger countries - including Cuba, Mexico and Jamaica - this volume brings together leading writers on environmental planning in the Caribbean to provide an interdisciplinary contemporary critical overview.

Contents: Preface. Introduction, Janet Henshall Momsen; Physical development planning in the Anglophone Caribbean: the re-articulation of formal state power, Jonathan Pugh; 'The Bad Old Days Look Better': enlightened colonial land management practices and land reform in the British Wndward Islands, Beth Mills; Challenges to promoting agro-biodiversity in the Caribbean small farming systems: a Jamaican case study, Elizabeth Thomas-Hope and Balfour Spence; Disaster creation in the Caribbean and planning, policy and participation reconsidered, Jonathan Skinner; Environmental planning and heritage tourism in Cuba during the Special Period: challenges and opportunities, Joseph L. Scarpaci; 'Nuff Respec'? Widening and deepening participation in academic and policy research in Jamaica, David Dodman and Jane Dodman; Corporate environmental sustainability: Sandals Resorts International in Jamaica, Paul Kingsbury; Conservation and recreation planning on the Caribbean coast: Cahuita, Costa Rica, Galen Martin; Nature, people and planning on the coast of Belize, Roger Few; Dis Da Fu We: conservation, development and empowerment in San Pedro Town, Belize, Brandon Kitagawa and Janet Henshall Momsen; Index.