Examines the extent to which publicly-listed Caribbean companies provide social and environmental disclosures, and the factors related to their disclosure practices. It is motivated by the dearth of studies of social and environmental disclosures among publicly listed Caribbean firms.
Through a genealogy of Jamaican disaster management, shows how participatory and mitigation techniques were deterritorialized from marginalized experiences of disaster and reterritorialized into mitigation policies through the confluence of local disaster events and the global emergence of sustainable development and resilience theory.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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180 p., Can Haiti be put on a path to true reconstruction? Today, what Haiti needs most is a 'New Deal' which could enable it to keep pace towards a sustainable development. The primary issue the country faces on this issue is the divide between the poverty-stricken majority and the rest of the population.