Participatory Planning in the Caribbean: Lessons from Practice - 9781138707764

Taylor & Francis

Participatory Planning in the Caribbean: Lessons from PracticeAuthor(s): Robert Potter, Jonathan Pugh\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138707764, 978-1138707764\nSynopsis\nThis title was first published in 2003. Until recently, planning and development in the Caribbean have been \""top-down\"", \""centre-out\"" and \""expert-led\"". For a few years now, though, the region has bowed to the global trend and has experimented with participatory planning methods. Participatory planning is heralded by much of the development community as the most appropriate alternative strategy to the traditional approaches. In this volume, a range of experts drawn from the Caribbean, the United Kingdom and the United States review the current achievements and future prospects for genuinely participative planning in the Caribbean region at the beginning of the 21st Century. \n\nBringing together a wide range of case studies from both the in.