1st Edition

Debt and Adjustment Social and Environmental Consequences in Jamaica

By Patricia Lundy Copyright 1999
116 Pages
by Routledge

118 Pages
by Routledge

116 Pages
by Routledge

Published in 1999, this text is based on original research carried out during 13 months fieldwork in Jamaica. The first key theme is an examination of the damage to the social environment and ecology of the island, which has resulted from IMF/World Bank prescribed structural adjustment policies. The second is the identification of a social movement in Jamaica of community environmental groups,... Read more

1. Crisis, Debt and Adjustment  2. Social Consequences of Structural Adjustment  3. Alternative Methodology in the Study of Adjustment  4. Does Adjustment Harm the Environment?  5. Social Action, the Environment and Adjustment  6. Summary and Conclusions

Biography

Patricia Lundy