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Seaforth Sylvester 1980 Medicines and Poisons from West Indian Plants

...have been subjected to sc1ent1f1c analys;s ( 3 (c) ) so Far, Fur thsxr pharmacodynamlc components. There is a pressing need to test West Indian herbal remedies sc1=nt1f1:ally’ and comprehensively - even though, such work is time-consuming and also expensive. Herbal remedies are here to stay. Here in the ues{ Indies, when the prescribed tablets do not appear to work their cure, the...

Seaforth_Sylvester_1980_Medicines_and_Poisons_from_West_Indian_Plants.pdf 124 pages Imported Files 3,225.1 KB Jul 30, 2025

Research Study

Yang Miyake Economic Feasibility Hybrid Solar Biogas Food Dryer 1984 SolarBiomassWorkshop

...ABSTRACT to test: (1) the feasibility A solar-biogas dryer was designed and built of generating adequate quantity of methane of combustible quality to aug- ment solar drying; (2) the effectiveness of a continuous sol ar-biogas dryer; dryer. Reported here are and (3) the economic feasibility of such a bility study, the equipment for various assumpti ons for the economic feasi for p...

Yang_Miyake_Economic_Feasibility_Hybrid_Solar_Biogas_Food_Dryer_1984_SolarBiomassWorkshop.pdf 39 pages Imported Files 1,976.8 KB Jul 30, 2025

Technical Report

ATP Final Narrative Report StVincent CIDA Limbird 1991

AGRONOMY TRAINING PROGRAM, . VINCENT Final Narrative Report Prepared for CIDA by Dr. Arthur Limbird Director, Small Island Research Group University of Calgary 15 March, 1991 Agronomy Training TABLE OF CONTENTS Executive Summary Project’s Original Objectives General Objectives. Specific Objectives W W W W Accomplishments, Problems, Solutions, Unexpected Results4 and: Recommendations;; by AT...

ATP_Final_Narrative_Report_StVincent_CIDA_Limbird_1991.pdf 274 pages Imported Files 7,261.6 KB Jul 30, 2025

Technical Report

AguiarMuxella GranularActivatedCharcoal RumProcessing UPRMayaguez 1973

...The results of the treatment depend upon the type of activated charcoal used (powder or granular), the characteristics of the rum and the method of processing. In a previous work (1) the author studied and made recom- mendations upon the use of powdered activated charcoal in rum processing. This paper presents work done to evaluate the use of granular activated charcoal for rum processing and...

AguiarMuxella_GranularActivatedCharcoal_RumProcessing_UPRMayaguez_1973.pdf 149 pages Imported Files 6,039.8 KB Jul 30, 2025

Technical Report

GarciaOrtiz Molini Clarification of Rum Slops UPR Mayaguez RumPilotPlant RPP1-77 1977

...slops from three Puerto Rican stlleie were used. Aver- age ompost of the slops are found in ablesl and 2. Tests were made in 400 ml beakers with 0m1 of slops to determine the best temperature, pH, concentration of coagulant and sedimentation time. The slops were heated to the desired temperatures and the pH was adjusted ith Ca(O stirred for 2 minutes at a high speed and 1 minute a...

GarciaOrtiz_Molini_Clarification_of_Rum_Slops_UPR_Mayaguez_RumPilotPlant_RPP1-77_1977.pdf 68 pages Imported Files 5,983.4 KB Jul 30, 2025

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Harpy 1939 Soil Erosion StVincent TropAgriVol16No3 pp58-65

...considerable area, and a soil ‘having restricted downward drainage, either because of the occur- rence of a “hard pan”, a cemented or impervious (IV) Erosion Problems in St. Vincent. subsoil, or bed rock at a relatively great depth at below the surface. The thick soil layer absorbs While it is not possible this juncture confidently to recommend methods for counter- water to full capacity, so th...

Harpy_1939_Soil_Erosion_StVincent_TropAgriVol16No3_pp58-65.pdf 53 pages Imported Files 7,489.1 KB Jul 30, 2025

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StVincent Agricultural Development Project 538-0101 PACR RONCO 1987

...A market price information system was not established, but some postharvest training was provided to about 200 farmers. The rack/pallet system has not been assembled and the purchase of the forklifts and pallets was not realized, thus leaving the envisioned package of improved produce export quality control unfulfilled. Although agricultural data was collected in 1986, the accuracy is in quest...

StVincent_Agricultural_Development_Project_538-0101_PACR_RONCO_1987.pdf 103 pages Imported Files 2,273.5 KB Jul 30, 2025

Conference Proceeding

Sankat 1982 Technical Economic Solar Drying Small Farms Caribbean CFCSv20

...associated with solar drying may be pro- hibitive, despite benefits of reduced labour requirements and im- proved crop quality as compared to open sun drying. It should be noted that to obrain rapid drying of perishables, the approximate loading density of the crop in the solar cabinet dryer should be less than 5 kg/m?. Higher loading densities will require stirring of the crop in the trays to...

Sankat_1982_Technical_Economic_Solar_Drying_Small_Farms_Caribbean_CFCSv20.pdf 147 pages Imported Files 1,461.4 KB Jul 30, 2025

Technical Report

Murphy et al 1975 Composition Puerto Rican Blackstrap Molasses 1973 Fermentation UPR

...nitrogen, ash, sodium, potassium, calcium, magne- and iron. The equip- sium, phosphorus, ananese, zinc, copper, ment and analytical methods employed were: Synchon-lectric viscometer for viscosity; Hunter lab color difference meter, model D-5 for color; copper reduction method for sugars as described in the Official Analytical Methods of Analyses of the - Rum Pilot Plant (1) 7 elal for nitrogen;...

Murphy_et_al_1975_Composition_Puerto_Rican_Blackstrap_Molasses_1973_Fermentation_UPR.pdf 282 pages Imported Files 19,678.4 KB Jul 30, 2025

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Murphy NiviaF 1976 Composition PuertoRican BlackstrapMolasses 1974Harvest FermentationBehavior UPR Mayaguez RumPilotPlant

...Four samples representative of the four months of sugarcane harvs(Mc, April, May, n were received at the anom each mill for evalato. h Sugar Cornration of Puerto Rico provided information about e sugarcane harvest and processing, All samples were analyzed' for: °Brix, pH, lsgrs nitrogen, ash, um potassium, calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, manganese, zinc, copper, lead, nickel, and iron. The eue...

Murphy_NiviaF_1976_Composition_PuertoRican_BlackstrapMolasses_1974Harvest_FermentationBehavior_UPR_Mayaguez_RumPilotPlant.pdf Imported Files 19,610.2 KB Jul 30, 2025

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OAS 1990 Economic Biology of Underutilized Tropical Plants Final Report

...Mr. Egbert Lansiquot (St. Lucia), Dr. Stanley Tirimanna (Suriname) and Dr. Compton Seaforth (Trinidad and Tobago). The Department of Scientific and Technological Affairs provided continuous support fox ;this:Project;, especially through the technical guidance and advice of the specialists, namely Dr. Jose Saiz (1982-1987) and Dr. Mirtha Versteylen (1988-1989). Dr. Seaforth and Dr. Versteylen sh...

OAS_1990_Economic_Biology_of_Underutilized_Tropical_Plants_Final_Report.pdf 307 pages Imported Files 15,331.4 KB Jul 30, 2025

Government Report

1996-09 MonthlyBulletin Bermuda PlantProtectionLab Refurbishment CoralReefs WeatherSummary

...material; such material may be held and treated in this facility, and subsequently released, rather than being confiscated and destroyed. The quarantine functions are designed to facilitate safe movement of plant material into and out of Bermuda. 2. Research and Diagnostic Lab The area that had previously been used as an all-purpose laboratory has been reorganized for diagnostic and research...

1996-09_MonthlyBulletin_Bermuda_PlantProtectionLab_Refurbishment_CoralReefs_WeatherSummary.pdf 88 pages Imported Files 2,493.9 KB Jul 30, 2025

Technical Report

1991 Limbird Agronomy Training Program StVincent FinalReport CIDA

...1991 3 AGRONOMY TRAINING PROGRAM, ST. VINCENT Final Narrative Report Prepared for CIDA by Dr. Arthur Limbird Director, Small Island Research Group University of Calgary 15 March, 1991 P Agronomy Training TABLE OF CONTENTS Executive Summary Project’s Original Objectives General Objectives W W W W Specific Objectives Accomplishments, Problems, Solutions, Unexpected Results4 and Recommendatio...

1991_Limbird_Agronomy_Training_Program_StVincent_FinalReport_CIDA.pdf 286 pages Imported Files 8,140.8 KB Jul 30, 2025

Technical Report

1991-1994 Participatory Agricultural Training System PATS StVincentGrenadines UniversityCalgary ORD CIDA

...export crop of bananas has an uncertain future in the once secure U.K. market. The Government of St. Vncn and the Grenadines has embarked on a crop diversification program. In recent speeches by the Hon. Minister of Agriculture, Allan Cruikshank and Rueben Robertson of the Ministry of Agriculture's Planning Department the need was stressed for programs by all local agencies in support of agricu...

1991-1994_Participatory_Agricultural_Training_System_PATS_StVincentGrenadines_UniversityCalgary_ORD_CIDA.pdf 53 pages Imported Files 3,801.3 KB Jul 30, 2025

Technical Report

Caribbean Development Bank 1981 Biogas for the Caribbean Annotated Bibliography

...industrial purposes, 150 of which are electrical power stations. India, Philippines, Np Pakistan and Korea also have large numbers of biogas digesters in operation Biogas can be used in most equipment made for natural gas such as cooking and also as fuel for lighting, water heating and internal combustion engines. The latter may be used to provide power for generators, pumps, mills and compres...

Caribbean_Development_Bank_1981_Biogas_for_the_Caribbean_Annotated_Bibliography.pdf 339 pages Imported Files 9,853.1 KB Jul 30, 2025

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Danforth 1935 Birds of Barbuda Economic Importance Puerto Rican Avifauna JAgricUnivPR VolXIIX No4

...this lagoon Small sailing vessels proceed directly to the village, but larger craft have to anchor at a considerable distance off the landing known as The River on the south coast of the island, three and a half miles from Codrington. The climate of the island is dry, and there is no fresh on the surface, although this is easily obtained from wells. Xerophytie brush occurs everywhere, this bei...

Danforth_1935_Birds_of_Barbuda_Economic_Importance_Puerto_Rican_Avifauna_JAgricUnivPR_VolXIIX_No4.pdf 129 pages Imported Files 4,880.9 KB Jul 30, 2025

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Pezzullo 1988 CurdledMilk MexicanDairyProjectFailure GrassrootsDevelopment12-3

...in order to nurture future growth. / Grassroots Development, 12:3, 1988 2 CURDLED MILK A Mexican Dair Poe Gone Sour Susan Pezzullo W hen Promocin para el Campo, A.C. (Promocion) received a grant from the Inter-American Founda- tion in 1983, all the ingredients for starting a regional dairy project in the state of Tlaxcala in central Mexico seemed to be in place.! The founders of Promocion...

Pezzullo_1988_CurdledMilk_MexicanDairyProjectFailure_GrassrootsDevelopment12-3.pdf 57 pages Imported Files 6,795.7 KB Jul 30, 2025

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Pezzullo 1988 CurdledMilk MexicanDairyProjectFailure GrassrootsDevelopment

...journal builds on Hirschmans theory, exploring the ambi ities of success and failure within £ amoiguities of success and failure withir fi our IAF-supported projects. r-supported projects, A Mexican Dair Pr Gone Sour Susan Pezzullo W hen Promocion para el Campo, A.C. (Promocion) received a grant from the Inter-American Founda- tion in 1983, all the ingredients for starting a regional dairy p...

Pezzullo_1988_CurdledMilk_MexicanDairyProjectFailure_GrassrootsDevelopment.pdf 70 pages Imported Files 6,660.0 KB Jul 30, 2025

Academic Paper

Fisher AW Engineering for Algae Culture Economic Feasibility and Prospects ArthurDLittleInc

...Cambridge, Massachusetts 6. What are the critical factors in algal culture with respect to investment and operating costs? 7. How and by how much might research, de- velopment and engineering studies of these factors reduce cost? 8. Under present and possible future costs can algae be considered as a competitive source of food? 1—Do Algae Provide a Potentially Useful Product? The many stat...

Fisher_AW_Engineering_for_Algae_Culture_Economic_Feasibility_and_Prospects_ArthurDLittleInc.pdf 176 pages Imported Files 6,999.0 KB Jul 30, 2025

Conference Proceeding

Petersen Watters 1991 Archaeological Testing Early Saladoid Trants Site Montserrat IAAC14

...of the site area, especially in the more deeply buried and apparently more intensively utilized core area in fields 8-10. At least about 7. area in fields 8-10. 8,438 square meters, o 19.4 cres. are represented in this central core Unfortunately, much of the enr siteis hene by proposed construction of the new inteational airport. Since the final engineering and design phases of the airport pla...

Petersen_Watters_1991_Archaeological_Testing_Early_Saladoid_Trants_Site_Montserrat_IAAC14.pdf 257 pages Imported Files 9,771.6 KB Jul 30, 2025

Technical Report

Arnold1978 1977 Underwater Site Test Excavations Padre Island TAC Pub5

...750y 14'(4 m) ferrous debris, modern 27 BSN 22-25 (41 CF 110) o 15' (4 m) shipwreck site, 19th century 28 BSN 10-13 25y 15' (4 m) geological anomaly 29 SPI 62-55 20y ferrous debris, modern 30 SPI 50y 110y 30'(9 m) 43-46 (41 CF 113) 1736y 4310y 17 m) shipwreck site, 20th century 31 BSS 7-12 § 101y 136y 20' (6 m) shipwreck site (?), late 19th or 20th century 32 BSS 7-12 g 128y 110y 15' (4 m) ferr...

Arnold1978_1977_Underwater_Site_Test_Excavations_Padre_Island_TAC_Pub5.pdf 95 pages Imported Files 10,075.6 KB Jul 30, 2025

Conference Proceeding

Barton Crock 1991 Flaked Stone Industries Early Saladoid Trants Montserrat IAAC14

...Harrington attributed the bead manufacture to Carib populations, but recent scientific excavations have proven their unequivocal presence in early Saladoid contexts. Watters has analyzed the collection of about 500 bead specimens in the Howes collection through an exhaustive attribute analysis which groups beads by raw material and morphological category. His research provides an excellent basi...

Barton_Crock_1991_Flaked_Stone_Industries_Early_Saladoid_Trants_Montserrat_IAAC14.pdf 223 pages Imported Files 11,023.5 KB Jul 30, 2025

Research Study

Archaeological Survey South Peninsula StKitts 1985 VHolon

...Outside is the kitchen midden complete with shells, bones and broken china. There was also the tine of a shoe buckle, Sherds of slipware, delft, white saltglazed stoneware and creamware predominated. The home was enclosed with a wall and the footings of the garden gate posts near the stream remain. Nearby the ground was prepared for agriculture as there are two piles of stones made when the was...

Archaeological_Survey_South_Peninsula_StKitts_1985_VHolon.pdf 203 pages Imported Files 4,461.8 KB Jul 30, 2025

Academic Paper

Arnold1977 SiteTestExcavations MagnetometerSurvey PadreIsland TexasAntiquitiesCommittee IJNA 6-1 21-36

...as an optical surveying instrument was stationed at each of the shore stations. The location of the anomaly found during the magnetometer sur- vey lay at the point of intersection of the lines sighted by the theodolites. The test excavations were executed from a 34 ft (10 m) aluminium crew boat. To reJocate the anomaly the vessel was sailed along one of the two axes directed by t...

Arnold1977_SiteTestExcavations_MagnetometerSurvey_PadreIsland_TexasAntiquitiesCommittee_IJNA_6-1_21-36.pdf 16 pages Imported Files 7,325.2 KB Jul 30, 2025

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Berkes 1985 Fishermen and Tragedy of the Commons Community Fishery Management

...Conservation The interesting question is, can communities of fisher- men selfregulate their fishing efforts or have practices which otherwise violate one or more of the assumptions of the model so that the tragedy would not occur? If the answer is no’, then government fishery managers should assume that fishermen behave as anarchic villains bent upon destroying their resource, and should accor...

Berkes_1985_Fishermen_and_Tragedy_of_the_Commons_Community_Fishery_Management.pdf 103 pages Imported Files 5,346.8 KB Jul 30, 2025

Technical Report

Kusterer 1989 AID DiscussionPaper26 SmallFarmerAttitudesAspirations

...bold and unapologetic style, offering a taxonomy of family aspirations that removes the farm per se from center stage, replacing it with a broader focus on what might be called the household economy . Kusterer does not claim to have answers. he offers Rather, a series of hypotheses to explain behavior. He says, in effect, that his reading of 268 studies gave him no clear answers, but after much...

Kusterer_1989_AID_DiscussionPaper26_SmallFarmerAttitudesAspirations.pdf 431 pages Imported Files 18,287.3 KB Jul 30, 2025

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Archaeology of Grenada Savanne Suazey Northern Area Pottery Analysis

...the east. The soil is very clayey. Here the surface is about 40 feet above the ocean from which it is separated by a nearly vertical cliff. Awash, at the foot of this cliff and extending outward into the Atlantic 30 to 40 feet, is the eroded top of the underlying stone ledge. Pottery in abundant quantities was found at the eroded top edge of the cliff but many small sterile test h...

Archaeology_of_Grenada_Savanne_Suazey_Northern_Area_Pottery_Analysis.json 7 pages Imported Files 299.4 KB Jul 30, 2025

Conference Proceeding

Watters Petersen 1991 RendezvousBay Anguilla PrelimReport IACACongress

...Preliminary rep ort of the first archaeological surve y of An, guilla, West Indies. Journal of the Virgin Islands Archaeologii cal Society, 10:34-37. Douglas, Nik 1986 (ed.) Anguilla Archaeological and Historical Society Review, 19, Archaeological and Historical Society, , 124 pp. 81-1985. Anguilla 1991 Recent Amerindian Finds on Anguilla. In Proceedin gsof the Thirteenth Internationaj Congr...

Watters_Petersen_1991_RendezvousBay_Anguilla_PrelimReport_IACACongress.pdf 207 pages Imported Files 5,978.8 KB Jul 30, 2025

Academic Paper

Kay 1975 Survey Antillean Sculptured Stone

...Nevertheless, from time to time there occur major advances or departures in new directions. , In Antilles, one can trace the development of the religious tradition side ¢ by side with the technological tradition through the artistic expression of certain deities as idols in stone, shell, bone, ceramics and wood. However, there appears an abrupt halt in the typical artistic and religious develop...

Kay_1975_Survey_Antillean_Sculptured_Stone.pdf 315 pages Imported Files 19,016.6 KB Jul 30, 2025

Technical Report

Archaeological Survey South Peninsula StKitts DesmondV Nicholson 1985

...Outside is the kitchen midden complete with shells, bones and broken china. There was also the tine of a shoe buckle, Sherds of slipware, delft, vhite saltglazed stoneware and creamware predominated. The home was enclosed with a wall and the footings of the garden gate posts near the stream remain. Nearby the ground was prepared for agriculture as there are two piles of stones made when the gro...

Archaeological_Survey_South_Peninsula_StKitts_DesmondV_Nicholson_1985.pdf Imported Files 6,453.8 KB Jul 30, 2025

Research Study

Goodwin Heymann 1977 Salvage Archaeology Sugar Factory Pier StKitts ExplorersJournal

...e 5 = Photo by Douglas V. rn. The Sugar Faciory Pier site before excavation. in June 1975, after a walking survey of the area delineated surface concen- t. Kits Salvage Archeology trations of prehistoric artifacts, and after the grid for vertical and hori- By R. Christopher Goodwin and Cyd Heymann zontal control was established. Dur- HEN THE TASK OF SALVAGE Anguilla, have provided the first ing...

Goodwin_Heymann_1977_Salvage_Archaeology_Sugar_Factory_Pier_StKitts_ExplorersJournal.pdf 53 pages Imported Files 3,146.6 KB Jul 30, 2025

Research Study

Armstrong Archaic Subsistence Settlement StKitts Shellfish 1976-1979

...0 91.1 154 . Among the artifacts comprising the tool kit of the mere recent Archaic midden were several columella ar tifacts of STROMBUS GIGAS (Armstrong 1979). Similar artifacts have been interpreted as evidence for woodworking and canoe building (Nicholson 1976: 264; Rouse 1960: a gap in the archeological record. 10). The products of such activities have long since decomposed leavin The ide...

Armstrong_Archaic_Subsistence_Settlement_StKitts_Shellfish_1976-1979.pdf 79 pages Imported Files 6,265.1 KB Jul 30, 2025

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Figueredo 1975 Saladoid Settlement Patterns StEustatius IRF

...absent. Stratum III is a tan-brown, silty midden soil; the upper 25 cm. were excavated as Level D, and the 1 ower ca. 12 cm. were excavated as Level E. Tevel D turned out to be the conch-shell midden that we were hoping to intercept: 4 whole conchshells (Strombus is with apical perforations and 5 other large fragments were found, along with 45 aboriginal sherds. No historic sherds at 2 all wer...

Figueredo_1975_Saladoid_Settlement_Patterns_StEustatius_IRF.pdf 149 pages Imported Files 14,785.3 KB Jul 30, 2025

Technical Report

IRF 1984 CrownBay StThomas MarineArchaeologicalSurvey FinalReport

...to have significance, a salvage archaeological excavation effort was to be carried forward expeditiously prior to any dredging activity. Project mobilization commenced on 8 August; field work at Crown Bay started on 6 October, using a Geometrics Model 806A Proton Magnetometer to relocate each anomaly site and pinpoint the anomaly epicenter on the seabed. At the re- quest of the Port Authority...

IRF_1984_CrownBay_StThomas_MarineArchaeologicalSurvey_FinalReport.pdf 337 pages Imported Files 20,690.1 KB Jul 30, 2025

Research Study

Pulsipher 1989 Montserrat Hurricane Hugo Impact and Response Study

p = = T : PESCSAL FCOF SMDHENCIVE Se STUDY OF TH SHORT- ANT LONG-TM BURRICANT HUGT O MOW RRAT, WEST IXNC TC N o M Lydia Y lsipner Department of Geograpny Tne University of Tennessee, Knoxville November, 1989 — — [ Yy 5 = =] Abstract A comprehensive study is proposed of the physical and socio-economic response by the Eastern Caribbean island of Montserrat to the devastation ef hurrica...

Pulsipher_1989_Montserrat_Hurricane_Hugo_Impact_and_Response_Study.pdf 344 pages Imported Files 8,161.9 KB Jul 30, 2025

Academic Paper

Watters 1979 Problematic Artifact Trants Montserrat JVIA 9

URNAL 0 OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS ARCHAOLOGICAL SOCIETY 9 A PROBLEMATIC ARTIFACT FROM TRANT'S, MONTSERRAT By David R. Watters In June, 1979, Walter Connell, Curator of the Montserrat National Trust Museum, brought to the author’s attention a curious artifact which had been uncovered shortly before at Trant's site (MS-G1). Exact provenience informa- tion for the artifact, unfortunately, is lacking;...

Watters_1979_Problematic_Artifact_Trants_Montserrat_JVIA_9.pdf 25 pages Imported Files 1,024.1 KB Jul 30, 2025

Academic Paper

Wilson 1989 Prehistoric Settlement Pattern Nevis West Indies

...paper veports the vesults of an intensive sertlement survey of Nevis, a volcanic island of 132 sq k in the Leeward Islands of the Lesser Antilles. Twenty-one sites weve discovered from three major periods—the aceramic in the last millennium B.C., the Saladoid in the irst 600 years A. ., and the Ostionoid peviod dating from 600 A.C. until European con- tact. The implications of the distribution...

Wilson_1989_Prehistoric_Settlement_Pattern_Nevis_West_Indies.pdf 469 pages Imported Files 13,467.2 KB Jul 30, 2025

Academic Paper

Figueredo 1974 History of Virgin Islands Archaeology IRF

ISLANDS : ARCHEOLOGICAL SOCIETY VOLUME | 1974 — HISTORY OF VIRGIN ISLANDS ARCHAEOLOGY By Alfredo E. Figueredo This is a historical account of the research done at prehistoric archaeological sites; it does not concern itself with work related to the time period after A.D. 1625 in St. Croix, and A.D. 1666 in the Virgin Islands proper, as these dates are the beginning of European settlement an...

Figueredo_1974_History_of_Virgin_Islands_Archaeology_IRF.pdf 119 pages Imported Files 2,239.8 KB Jul 30, 2025

Research Study

Modern Middens Garbage Project Archaeology and Landfill Ecology Natural History 1990

...Situated between the Ever- attract companies that have developed glades and Florida’s gulf coast, it isa won- derful place to live. Although southern novel uses for many of the wastes. For Florida’s rapid population growth has example, one company will use our un- made finding a solution to our garbage sorted plastics to produce “lumber” that can be sawed and nailed just like wood. crisis espec...

Modern_Middens_Garbage_Project_Archaeology_and_Landfill_Ecology_Natural_History_1990.pdf 70 pages Imported Files 7,094.5 KB Jul 30, 2025

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IRF NGO News No19 1993-11 Small Islands Big Issues UN SIDS NGO Role

...conditions but also by something called a "Free Market that makes our bananas, sugar and rice uncompetitive in a "World Market" or for that matter even in our own market .... People in our countries see ourselves as what we are: a struggling people in a world that seeks to reduce us all to a global common with seemingly little access to the global good. We are a diverse, capable people and in...

IRF_NGO_News_No19_1993-11_Small_Islands_Big_Issues_UN_SIDS_NGO_Role.pdf 113 pages Imported Files 2,015.6 KB Jul 30, 2025

Policy Document

PanosBriefing10 1994 SmallIslandDevelopingStates InternationalAction

...Furthermore, their natural resources, economies and unique ecosystems are at risk from industrial exploitation, badly planned development and economic dependence on world markets. The vital role small islands can play as a testing ground for development policies that protect rather than destroy the environment is at last to be acknowledged: on 25 April 1994 a 12-day conference wil...

PanosBriefing10_1994_SmallIslandDevelopingStates_InternationalAction.pdf 298 pages Imported Files 10,207.8 KB Jul 30, 2025

Academic Paper

vanHerwijnen Janssen Nijkamp 1993 MultiCriteria GIS Sustainable Development Greek Islands ProjectAppraisal v8n1

...effect table. ® It appears that scenario 2 (urban growth in the middle of the island) has a verylow relative score for the ‘tourism’ criterion, whereas scenario 5 (no urban expansion) has the highest score for the same criterion. This results from the fact that the urban distances to the sea — which deter- mine the ‘happy tourists’ in this scenario — are at a maximum for the case of scenario...

vanHerwijnen_Janssen_Nijkamp_1993_MultiCriteria_GIS_Sustainable_Development_Greek_Islands_ProjectAppraisal_v8n1.pdf 14 pages Imported Files 9,326.4 KB Jul 30, 2025

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PanosBriefing10 1994 SmallIslandDevelopingStates InternationalAction

...warming. Furthermore, their natural resources, economies and unique ecosystems are at risk from industrial exploitation, badly planned development and economic dependence on world markets. The vital role small islands can play as a testing ground for development policies that protect rather than destroy the environment is at last to be acknowledged: on 25 April 1994 a 12-day confe...

PanosBriefing10_1994_SmallIslandDevelopingStates_InternationalAction.pdf 282 pages Imported Files 10,955.0 KB Jul 30, 2025

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Ausubel 1991 SecondLook ImpactsClimateChange AmericanScientist

...were sounded with confidence again and again, and that eight hypotheses seemed to form the core of the conventional wisdom. The eight hypotheses are: 1. Faster change is worse. 2. Waiting to make policy and to take ac- tion will drive up the costs of response. 3. There are only losers from climatic change. 4. The most important impacts will be on agriculture and from sea level rise. 5. Cha...

Ausubel_1991_SecondLook_ImpactsClimateChange_AmericanScientist.pdf 208 pages Imported Files 6,611.7 KB Jul 30, 2025

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Brookes 1989 GlobalWarmingPanic Forbes

...in testimony to Senator Albert Gore’s subcommittee on Sci- ence, Technology & Space. “My beliet is that we should not move forward on major programs until we have a reasonable understanding of the sci- entific and economic consequences ot those programs.”’ President Bush was umediately savaged by environmentalists, and by like Senator Gore politicians {D-Tenn.). The Bush viewpoin...

Brookes_1989_GlobalWarmingPanic_Forbes.pdf 75 pages Imported Files 2,329.1 KB Jul 30, 2025

Policy Document

1994 UN Global Conference SIDS Barbados Declaration Programme of Action

...TOURISM RESOURCES 25 IX BIODIVERSITY RESOURCES 26 NATIONAL INSTITUTIONS AND ADMINISTRATIVE CAPACITY 29 Xl REGIONAL INSTITUTIONS AND TECHNICAL COOPERATION 30 X TRANSPORT AND COMMUNICATION 32 X SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY XIV HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT 35 XV IMPLEMENTATION, MONITORING AND REVIEW 38 INTRODUCTION At the conclusion of the United Nations Global Conference on the Sustainable Development...

1994_UN_Global_Conference_SIDS_Barbados_Declaration_Programme_of_Action.pdf 644 pages Imported Files 22,023.9 KB Jul 30, 2025

Conference Proceeding

Williams MervinC 1988 Development and Environment Sustainable Development OECS CCA AGM Martinique

...individuals, voluntary organizations, business, institutes and Governments" (Brundtland, 1987). The Commission presented its Report in early 1987 under the title "Our Common Future." At its final meeting in Tokyo, the Commission issued the "Tokyo Declaration" in which it . declared, "We remain convinced that it is possible to build a future that is prosperous, just and secure. But realizing t...

Williams_MervinC_1988_Development_and_Environment_Sustainable_Development_OECS_CCA_AGM_Martinique.pdf 194 pages Imported Files 4,878.9 KB Jul 30, 2025

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1993 BusinessWeek Alternative Energy Technology and Market Trends

...the new tur- the projects. Luz International Ltd, a electricity could come from wind and top maker of solar gear, went bankrupt. sun within 20 years. Well before then, bine, Kenetech went public in Septem- The times are changing, ber, raising $92 million. Alderson says however. Bolstered by im- o proved technology and re- vived support from Wash- ington, renewable energy is making a comeback—an...

1993_BusinessWeek_Alternative_Energy_Technology_and_Market_Trends.pdf 2 pages Imported Files 1,556.2 KB Jul 30, 2025

Conference Proceeding

Ragster CSA PresidentialAddress SustainableDevelopment Caribbean 1996

...are just three of the attempts to define and rationalize this idea that equitable socio-economic development has to be based on sustainable use of natural resources. In the Caribbean, there is heavy reliance on the exploitation of and to natural resources for economic activity, for recreation, support the basic physical and spiritual needs of human society. Generally, the patterns of resource...

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