CaribbeanMSCD Geg 1920

Fall 2008

Lecturer: Sara Jackson

Caribbean

What makes the Caribbean unique?

• Isolated Proximity

Caribbean

• Physical Geography

• Population Geography

• Environmental Geography

• Haiti as a case study

Landforms

Climate

Hurricane Mitch

Population

Slave Trade

Diffusion of African Religions

Emigration

Urban Geography: English

Urban Geography: Spanish

Environmental Issues

Case Study: Haiti

Review

• What are the relationships between the physical geography of the region and the history of development and human impacts on the environment?

Jamaica

• Geopolitics and challenges to economic development