Natural Resource Management and Development Discourses in the Caribbean: reflections on the Guyanese and Jamaican experience

Jayalaxshmi Mistry, Andrea Berardi and Duncan Mcgregor

Third World Quarterly, 2009, vol. 30, issue 5, 969-989

Abstract: International discourses on environment and development help to shape global shared understandings of environmental issues. This paper describes the environment and development history of Guyana and Jamaica through pre-colonial, colonial, independence and market liberalisation stages. Two opposing discourses are used to frame this history: a dominant global environmental discourse characterised by technical and ‘scientific’ expertise and hierarchical governance; and a counter-discourse emphasising local control over natural resources. This analysis serves as a first step in surfacing and understanding the highly complex and multifaceted nature of environmental issues in these locations. However, we conclude with the recognition that further work should go beyond a bipolar analysis to one taking a critical, multidimensional approach, in order to promote more sustainable management of natural resources than has previously taken place.

Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1080/01436590902959222

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