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IRF Alphabetical Listing Agricultural Research Development Organizations Individuals Eastern Caribbean College Virgin Islands 1980s

...W.I. ORGANIZATION U.N. DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM TEL (809)42-92521 ADDRESS: JEMOTTS LANE BRIDGETOWN, BARBADOS, W.I. ORGANIZATION: U.N. EDUCATION, SCIENCE & CULTURAL ORGANIZATION TEL ADDRESS: 7 PLACE DE FONTENOY PARIS, FRANCE 75700 ORGANIZATION: U.5. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT TEL: (301)984-9674 ADDRESS: OFFICE OF CARIBBEAN AFFAIRS 320 21ST STREET, N.. WASHINGTON, D.C. 20523 OR...

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1986 CESRM Cardi UWI UNESCO RiskAssessment Agrochemicals Tropical Island Ecosystems Proposal StLucia Barbados

...by Pesticides. Edwards, C. A. (Ed.) Plenue Press. London & Hew York LUO, 4.E. Broun, S {Eds.) (1985) Hatershed Hanagesent in the Caribbean. Institute of Tropical Forestry, Rio Piedras, Pu ‘Rico. 157 pp. HCEWEM, F. L. & Stephenscn, G £ {1979). the use and Significance of Festicides in the Environment. iley-nterscience. 538 pp. D HACKAY, A. & Paterson, S. (1981}. Calculating Fugacity...

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Document 65fcf6a4

...However, exposure of their there ‘are few data available to national governments ab out ‘the of populations to these chemicals’ or about the behavior agrochesicals in tropical environsents. In addition, the small size of Eastern Caribbean states and the rapi d erosion rates of . the steeper, i volcanic islands sean that agrochesmical residues are already r...

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OAS 1990 Economic Biology of Underutilized Tropical Plants Final Report

...The results of the EBUTROP project confirm that harmful constituents exist in some of the herbal teas used in Caribbean folk medicine. Therefore, for example, the use of teas made from the popular ‘sage’ (Lantana camara) bush should be discouraged. On the other hand, the findings show that the leaf material of Cecropia peltata and of Annona muricata are promising sources of accepta...

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1973 NSRC NAS Workshop Aquatic Weed Management Guyana Report

...lettuce (Pistia stratiotes), and Shrimp grass (Paspalum repens) cause particular problems. In the wider navigation canals, floating weeds are oved by wind and water currents, and though they do not interfere with the flow of water they present a constant threat to the movement of small boats. Water lettuce is very abundant in navigation canals. Water hyacinth is the most renowned aquatic wee...

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Thomson 1987 GreenGold BananasDependency EasternCaribbean LAB

...a crop which is prone to devastation by annual hurricanes, and in which the farmer has a decreasing say in matters affecting the industry’s future. 90 Bibliography ACP/EEC, The Banana Trade and the ACP States. Issue no 78, pp 64-91, Brussels, March-April 1983. Ambursley F, and Cohen R, (eds), Crisis in the Caribbean. London, Heinemann, 1983. Barry, T, Wood, B, and...

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Document 68f0dc22

...15 suggested a calory approach to measurement of land resources. 17.— The idea of climax vegetation is disputed and many plant community specialists no longer believe in the traditional concept of climax. Nevertheless the term is still in vogue and refers to a mature, relatively stable vegetative formation which is long—enduring. It is in this sense that the term is used here. The maps

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Wider Caribbean Environmental Agricultural Constraints and Resource Management AMBIO 1981

... Port- Virgin Islands and Jamaica. Industrial de- imported raw materials. In fact, the ex- the Central American au-Prince, Haiti——sewage; Santo pansion of processing indigenous raw velopment n States. with the exception of the San Ped- Domingo, Dominican Republic— materials, especially oil (in the case of urban runoff; San Juan, Puerto resource-endowed countries) or th...

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Towle 1978 Historic Site Preservation Caribbean Status Report IRF

...At present, there is no techni- cally-focused, professional publication available in the region to assist island preservationists, and such publications written from a continental perspective do not always provide for applicable conservation techniques and information as required in=tropical; insular environments. It should be noted that at the Second Inter-Amer- ican Seminar on Historic Prese...

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IRF CountryReport StVincent Education Agriculture AIDProjects 1977

= | ® G/VC 1 — T Pean e ST.VINCENT 9 1 3 MILES 1i% 107w O 1 2 3 xLOMETRES Commantavana 8a Fancy w 8ay Sandy 3ay CARIBBEAN Soutriare 4 (4000 fr.) Larikai Bay sourmiere MOUNTAINS Overiand SEa Crater Lake Village Richmand Peut Bordel Bay Peax Georgetown Troum o Chateaubelair S aumaka ~F7 = av 15 r Calanarie Colonan e ay Layou ay ) ou Buecar ent u Giants 8. ‘ M IW Kingstown ®)Al Gr...

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Towle Tyson 1979 Planning Strategy Historical Cultural Resources Lesser Antilles IRF

...smaller islands of the Lesser Antilles. These cultural resources, singularly and regionally, remain largely unappreciated, undefined and underutilized. Collectively, they constitute an asset, an inheritance of not inconsiderable value to the region and to each developing island nation. Each element of the cultural resource base (historical, archival, arti- factural, architectural,...

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1977 UNESCO Development of Museums Trinidad and Tobago Almeida-Moro IRF TRP175-7-3

...ard the programme of research developed by the institution. The possibi- lities of participation of the Folklore Archives in the museum's cultural The Consultant wishes to pay a tribute action programmes were discussed. to the importance and good quality of the work carried out by this institution. 13. Meetings were held with Mr Siltbourne St. Aubyn Clarke, Director of the subregional ECIA off...

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1974 Caribbean Cruise Conservation Preservation Clinics Report IRF NTHP CCA

...organizations will be giving more attention. Conservation in the Caribbean cannot be separated into the man-made and the natural because too few people and groups are interested in conservation to do the work. The organizations, for the most part, have included both elements in their programs and charters. The workshops encouraged the small organizations and gave them new ideas....

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ConservationAssessment DisasterPreparedness Bibliography IRF

...ed. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California; 1979. Musgrove, Stephen W. A New Look at Fire Protection. Museum News; August 1984; 62:11-16. Myers, James N.; Bedford, Denise D. Disasters: Prep ention and Coping. Stanford, Calif.: The Stanford University Libraries; 1981. National Fire Protection Association. Protection Museums and Museum Collections. Batterymarch Park, Quincy, Mass.: Nationa...

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Historical Resource Development Workshop St Kitts 1983 Cummins IRF Report

...the Carib bean Conservation Association, gave the opening address with a briof but invigorating report on som of the regfonal programmes being sponsored in part by the CCA. Sho further ennouncen that CCA had submitted a pro- posal to UNESCO for funding for a subregional museum development plan in 1984, & There fellowed shae scesians planned around central ar a7 thmes during the t...

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Towle Management of Marine Archaeological Sites Eastern Caribbean IRF Workshop 1983

...degree of calculated en- couragement, education, and guidance, almost any diver -- visitor or resident, novice or professional -- can make the critical transition conservationist. Once from predatory souvenir hunter to volunteer such a transition has been effected, each can then contribute to the development of local marine archaeological resources while simultane- ously enjoying the experience...

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Directory Museum Associations West Indies Buchanan IRF

...k Business Committee for the Arts, Inc 1700 Broadway New York, New York 10019 U.S.A. Fk Canadian Museums Association: P.0. Box 1328, Station B. Ottawa Ontario K1P 5R4 CANADA Caribbean Conservation Association: Savannah Lodge The Garrison St. Michael BARBADOS, W.I. dedek Civic Trust: 17, Carlton House Terrace London SW1 Y 5AW ENGLAND, U.K. de = 5 Council of Europe: Counc...

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1987 Tyson Towle BVI Marine Archaeology Policy MelbertLtd Draft

7 P ISLAND RESOURCES FOUNDATION Caribbean Headgarters Washington, D.C. Office RED HOOK BOX 33. ST. THOMAS 1718 P STREET. N.W., SUITE T4 U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS 00802 WASHINGTON. D.C. 20036 (809) 775-6225 (202) 265-9712 British Virgin Islands Marine Archaeology Resource Development Conservation and Management PRELIMINARY Discussion of Objectives, Principles and Pr...

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UNESCO Courier 1981-12 Caribbean Encounter and Cultural Fusion

...novelist and anthropologist. Among her published works are Pan Beat and J'ouvert Morning, Columbus Press, Port of Spain, Trinidad. 29 7 i ’ 2 § - & 5 S = - g % Photo P. Leclaire, Unesco backbone in slums and barrack yards, plan- tations and small farms. It was, as every- where else, a struggle complicated not only by race but by freed or unfreed, by class, by status

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Delatour 1984 UNESCO Monuments and Sites Caribbean Region

...surved in the Caribbean and observations pertinent to their preservation 11 Iv. Law and historic preservation 22 Selected bibliography collected in the Caribbean 24 S 1. List of monuments and sites visited in the Caribbean Islands by the consultant 29 2. Maps collected in the Caribbean 31 List of countries visited by...

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Cultural Policy Guyana AJ Seymour UNESCO 1977

...Western States. They will re also been selected to come t turn to participate in the institute. Tutors have 0 Guyana in order to develop skills in dancing with a view to arousing int erest and identi phases of artistic development. fying talent for the subsequent In music, groups will be encouraged to work towards the creation of a national choir. In addition, financial and techni...

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Citadelle SansSouci Ramiers Haiti Historic Preservation UNESCO ISPAN 1977-1980

...en in ant les Etats membres de 'UNESCO, les organisations intergouvernementales et internationales de spécialistes qui participent avec I"UNESCO 4 la préservation du patrimoine culturel et naturel de Ihumanité, les institutions publiques et privées qui ont pour vocation de contribuer a la sauvegarde des oeuvres culturelles, ainsi que tous les particuliers attachés a I’...

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Brookfield 1975 Gain and Loss of System Independence Island Ecosystems Fiji UNESCO MAB ConferencePaper

...project is part of the UNESCO Man-and-the-Biosphere programme, a scientific programme 'which emphasises an ecological approach to the study of interrelations between man and the environment ' (UNESCO 1972). Management problems, and questions of choice and decision of a non-scientific character' were specifically excluded at first, although 'direct assistance and econom...

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Brookfield 1970s Gain and Loss of System Independence Island Ecosystems Fiji UNESCO MAB Symposium

...this 'sense of place', but it is support for the maintenance of a status guo much more than for development., Certain very positive island enterprises are funded and even managed by emigrants, but perhaps the strongest support is for education of the young - an investment which will lead to settlement of most of the educated elsewhere. Such a condition leads inevitably to slow ero...

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1970 Cultural Conservation Conference Jamaica Report Commission Archaeology Historic Monuments UNESCO

...not however a comprehensive document, Reference was also made to the recent UNESCO study and report by Professor C. Tunnard and Mr. J. C. Pollacco "Jamaica - Conservation and Development of Sites and Monuments" which as had earlier been stated was the main conference paner of Jamaica, This wes considered to be an admirable report, and it was agreed that M s UNESCO shou...

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1978 Council of Europe Report Underwater Cultural Heritage Doc4200 Roper

...the nature of regional differences do not change rotection needed, and uniformity is important to prevent speculative pir ates shopping around for It is also likely that only the softer jurisdiction. negotiation on a full Europea n level, within the Council of Europe context, will bring about agree- ment on the 200-mile cultural protection zone. The pos: sibility of establishing regional agree...

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Zube Pitt 1980 CrossCulturalPerceptions Scenic Heritage Landscapes LandscapePlanning

...Paris. 76 pp. UNESCO, 1979. List of states having deposited an instrument of ratifica- tion or acceptance as of 1-10-1979. 3 pp. University of Ibadan Nigeria, 1978. Report of the IGU/MAB Workshop on Perception of the Environment. Environmental Perception Research Working Paper No. 5: Institute for Environmental Studies, Univer- sity of Toronto. 23 pp., plus Appendice...

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Nicholson 1989 Educating Through Museums Developing Countries BermudaConference

EDUCATING THROUGH MUSEUMS W ITH SPECIAL R NCE _TO DEVELOPING COUNTRIES For 1 Internaticnal Conference of Naticnal at Bermuda, Nov 12th-20th, 1989 by Desmond V. Nicholson, Museum of Antigua and BRarbuda Fart I - EDUCATION, ULTD NATIONAL DEVELOFMENT T me the function of a mt eum in a developing country, BR M delpasay 1s to manifest that country's history and culture. This helps to nurtu...

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EnvironmentalPlanningIssues 08 1995 SmallIslandStates SustainableDevelopment Bass DalalClayton

...sustainable development, and in increasing the skills/resource base upon which islands can draw. For example, many of the research tasks suggested in sections 4.1 - 4.4 might be achieved, and at the same time the isolation of professionals on different islands reduced, through international networking, professional associations and joint facilities. They also provide j...

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1996 UVI Renewable Energy Institute Business Plan Eastern Caribbean Center

...of climatic changes in the wide Caribbean region : prelimi- nary conclusions of the Task Team of Experts. [Kingston, Jamaica]: Caribbean Environment Programme, United Nations Environment Programme, 1989. (CEP Technical Report No. 3) McCarley, Jeff, St. Thomas/St. John Chamber of Commerce. Personal communication. October 1995. Meteo France, 1995 : L'Année...

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1995 CPACC Brochure2 Caribbean Planning Adaptation Climate Change OAS WorldBank

...densities, level of production relating to various land use regimes, level of capital investment, and natural habitats. This data will be used to develop and apply models which will permit participants to improve their prediction capabilities, These predictions can then be incorporated into the long-term planning process. This will promote safer development loca- tion and building practices...

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Vermeiren Watson New Technology Storm Risk Assessment Caribbean CDMP TAOS IRF 1995

...the Caribbean base map created for CDMP is based on the Digitial Chart o the Warld, 2 public domain data set created by the US Defense Mapping Agency. Since the models work from a standardised GIS database, updates o improvements to the database ar¢ available for the next model run without further effort. - - » = 93,1995 1:3 FROM ISLAND RESOURCES FDHN TO IRF WRASH...

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Ratter Possekel Bynoe Resource Management Caribbean EcoEco Scenarios LandUse IRF

...conces- sion is granted for woodcutting, but the con- cessionaire proceeds not only to harvest tim- ber, but to develop land for ecotourism as well. In this case ecotourism becomes an un- planned land use. 6. There is also the problem of the en- croachment into the intermediate savannahs by coastlanders. It is generally felt that land will be degraded as a result of burning. As land use inten...

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1993 UNESCO MehirAshraf Statement PreparatoryCommittee SIDS Conference

...including their vital role in the global water cycle; the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (10C) was established in 1960 (built on the foundation laid down by UNESCO’s International Advisory Committee on Marine Sciences (IACOMS)). The IOC is the only within the United Nations charged with basic body "act as a joint oceanographic research. The IOC may also specialized mech...

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Insula Vol1 No1 1993 UNESCO Satellite Monitoring Sea Level Rise

...is to monitor in 1989. GLOSS includes a global changes in sea level due to global network of 300 permanent sea- melting of glacial ice, and in part level stations for obtaining stan- to the warming and thermal warming and indications of ocean expansion of the upper layers of circulation patterns and climate dardized sea level observations. the ocean. variability as well as to contr...

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1987 SCOPE-MAB Workshop Geosphere-Biosphere Observatories Design IGBP Dyer UNESCO

...Programme: A study of global change. ICsU, Paris, 21 pp. International Union of Biological Sciences. 1986. The International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme: Terrestrial ecosystems and atmospheric interactions. Biology International 13:12-21. Justice, C. 0., J. R. G. Townshend, B. N. Holden, and C. J. Tucker. 1985. Analysis of the phenology of global vegetation using meteorological satellite da...

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Insula Vol1 No1 1993 Dossier Global Warming Sea Level Rise Does Sea Level Rise Stewart Jerfue Dwivedi UNESCO COMAR

- r ontents Editorial Dr. Pier Giovanni d'Ayala News from the Islands and the World Croatian Islands at War Nenad Starc Japan: The Remote Islands Development Act Shigeyoshi Wake The Seychelles - A plan for Development Nina Toérnudd The UNESCO Programme: Satellite. Monitoring Sea-level Rise Dossier: Global Warming and Sea-level Rise The P...

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Dyer 1987 Definition Design Geosphere Biosphere Observatories Global Change ScopeMAB Workshop Report

ISLAND RESOURCES FOUNDATION B Caribbean Headuarters RED HOOK BOX 33, ST. THOMAS U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS 00802 (809) 775-6225 Please Reply To: Washington, D.C. Office 1718 P STREET, N.W., SUITE T4 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20036 (202) 265-9712 B DEFINITION AND DESIGN OF GEOSPHERE-BIOSPHERE OBSERVATION FOR STUDYING CLOBAL CHANGE BY M.I. Dyer UNESCO B BN N Il...

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Connell Problems of Atoll States Global Warming Insula Vol1No1 1993

...capacity to support human habitation, is closely tied to the existence of a permanent ground Islands above a water system. certain size, about 1.5 ha and 200 metres in diameter, contain a permanent lens of fresh water surrounded by salt water. The volume of the lens is roughly pro- portional to the surface area of the atoll, and a decline in the island surface area would have a dis...

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1990 MAB Vol5 Sustainable Development Environmental Management Small Islands Beller dAyala Hein

...best management practices. The participants in the Puerto Rico workshop agreed on the need for a Protocol for the Wider Caribbean Region for controlling pollution from land- based sources. They saw four essential elements in such a protocol: (1) In standard format, gather baseline pollution data, which are needed to determine the extent of pollution of the Caribbean...

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Caribbean Regional Planning Adaptation Global Climate Change GEF OAS WorldBank 1996

...Caribbean shorelines from future sea level rise —including low coasts, cities, harbors, island elevations and beach nourishment, but excluding unprotected dry lands or ecosystems that may be lost, and the impacts of saline intrusion and increased storm frequency. For Caribbean island territories, the projected cost of new construction alone would be $11.1 billion, whic...

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1993 IISD EarthNegotiationsBulletin Vol8 GlobalConference SustainableDevelopment SIDS PrepCom Report

...sometimes absorbed & the need to respond fo natural disasters. He called for the creation of a focal point for SIDS within the UN system. He also drew attention to the vulnerability of Caribbean States to oil and chemical spills. SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE: Carlos Gustavo dos Anjos noted that his country has one of the lowest per capita incomes of the SIDS. This Conference...

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UN Regional Technical Meeting Report SIDS Atlantic Caribbean Mediterranean Port of Spain 1993

...Caribbean Action Lobby 599, Ralph Avenue, Brooklyn, N.Y 11233 Tel.: (718) 756-8080 Secretary-General - -19- COMMONWEALTH OF LEARNING Professor Leslie Robinson Dr. Peter Meincke COMMONWEALTH SECRETARIAT Dr. Jackson Karunasekera ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN (ECLAC) Mr. Clyde Applewhite Mr . Daniel Blanchard Mr . Swinburne Lestrade...

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EARTHMAP Design Study Implementation Plan Global Environment Technology Foundation 1995

...Technology Council (of the White House) OAS Organization of American States OGIS Open Geodata Interoperability Specification OGC Open GIS Consortium osI Open Systems Interconnection OSTP Office of Science and Technology Policy (of the White House) SOTER Soil and Terrain Database and Map of the World SPOT System Pour I’Observation de la Terre TAG Technical Advisory Group (of the pro...

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1994 UN Global Conference SIDS Barbados Declaration Programme of Action

...Prevention of Pollution from Ships (MARPOL 73/78).’ (viii) In conformity with the Basel Convention and relevant decisions taken by the parties to that Convention, formulate and enforce national laws and/or regulations that ban the importation from States that are members of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) of hazardous 15 wastes and other wastes s...

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Roy Connell 1991 Climatic Change Future Atoll States JCR 7-4 1057-1075

...that independently increases pressure on long-term decline in rainfall, as is possible in resources. Intensification of the present struc- some areas, human habitation will effectively be impossible. ture of dependence on metropolitan states seems inevitable. Within countries it is likely ' Coastal erosion will both reduce land areas on atoll islands and, because of th...

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Bass 1993 Ecology Economics Small Islands Sustainable Development Framework

...time, e.g. fallowing systems, may not be appropriate in densely-populated islands subject to high resource demands. From an economic viewpoint, resource management should aim to sustain high income on relatively small land units. It should realize com- parative advantages to produce speciality crops for which there are possibilities of creating monopolies, such as flower/fruit/veg...

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Clark 1986 Sustainable Development Biosphere Chapter1 Themes Research Program IIASA CambridgeUP

... each (see the maps in Figures 1.12, 1.15, and 1.16), and these groupings were used in sub- sequent calculations. Summary data are presented in the table below this note. The analysis was carried out for this chapter by Anna Clark. ® Area and Density: Figures reflect total land area, from World Bank (1984), World Development Report 1984, Table 1, pp 218-219 (Oxford Uni- versity P...

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UNESCO IRF Status Hydrogeological Maps Caribbean Islands 1989

...The information Caribbean countries a presented in this chapter was prepared with the cooperation of the end of 1989. nd dependent territories. It reflects the dat existing in Unesco at the As agreed, the national ma ps should present geographical data. ¢ ngineering works or man-made features, geological information, ground water occurence (colour blue fo...

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McElroy Towle 1987 Montserrat Land Resources Planning Management OECS Natural Resources Project

...linkage study for the Eastern Caribbean (CTRC, 1984) is not terribly helpful in this regard. A series of so-called amenity valuation studies would be directed toward applying experimental modeling and survey techniques recently appearing in the literature (Cullen, 1985; Loomis, Sorg, and Donnelly, 1986; Loomis and Walsh, 1986) to determine how the benefits of scenic and touristic...

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