@article{7423d465e86947d8b012f999bf0d8669,
title = "Sustainable use of the littoral by traditional people of Barbados and Bahamas",
abstract = "This paper is about the traditional people of Barbados and The Bahamas, in the Caribbean and their sustainable adaptations to the littoral, which included both marine and terrestrial components. Traditional people are defined as having lived in a sustainable way in an environment for five generations, the littoral is described here as an ecological zone at the sea's edge, which is composed of hundreds of medicine and food plants and animals, and resilient adaptations are understood with the environmental multiplicity model. The analysis is based on more than a thousand site intercept interviews conducted by the authors and their research teams. These data argue that culturally based patterns of sustainable food use and environmental preservation can be understood from generations of successful adaptations of traditional people.",
keywords = "Bahamas, Barbados, Caribbean, Coastal littoral, Environmental co-adaption, Traditional people",
author = "Brent Stoffle and Richard Stoffle and {Van Vlack}, Kathleen",
note = "Funding Information: Funding: The Barbados study was funded by an American Telephone & Telegraph Inc., Community Development Grant, Community Initiative Program. Funding also derived from the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Research Grant at the University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida. Addition funding came from the Wenner-Gren Foundation, New York City, NY through a grant awarded to Trevor Purcell, faculty in the Department of Anthropology, University of South Florida. The Bahamas study was funded by a National Science Foundation grant entitled “Coupled Natural and Human Dynamics in Coral Reef Ecosystems” (or BBP— Bahamas Biocomplexity Project), which was awarded September 2001 as number OCE 0119978 and hosted in the American Museum of Natural History, and directed by Dr. Dan Brumbaugh. A portion of this grant was administered by the University of Arizona, School of Anthropology (UofA). Funding Information: The Barbados study was funded by an American Telephone & Telegraph Inc., Community Development Grant, Community Initiative Program. Funding also derived from the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Research Grant at the University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida. Addition funding came from the Wenner-Gren Foundation, New York City, NY through a grant awarded to Trevor Purcell, faculty in the Department of Anthropology, University of South Florida. The Bahamas study was funded by a National Science Foundation grant entitled {"}Coupled Natural and Human Dynamics in Coral Reef Ecosystems{"} (or BBP-Bahamas Biocomplexity Project), which was awarded September 2001 as number OCE 0119978 and hosted in the American Museum of Natural History, and directed by Dr. Dan Brumbaugh. A portion of this grant was administered by the University of Arizona, School of Anthropology (UofA). We would like to acknowledge the following people for sharing fishing knowledge, insights into local culture, and providing specific cases on which is based on the littoral discussion and the concept of community. These people are Lorenso Perez (Tuba) from Buen Hombre, Dominican Republic, Fred Watson from Bath, Barbados, Carlos Waldron from Bath, Barbados, Selvin Graeves (Bird) from Bath, Barbados, Guerson Martinez (Nicky) from St. Croix, USVI, and Derke Snodgrass from Tavenier, Florida Keys. The Bahamas Bahamas Biocomplexity Project Study was co-headed by J. Minnis, Chairperson, School of Social Science, at The College of the Bahamas. Her students include K. Arnett, C. Dean, T. McDonald, W. Minnis, T. Smith, and Y. Skinner. R. Stoffle headed the UofA study team. His students include Graduate Assistant A. Carroll and students C. Carroll, F. Chmara-Huff, L. Crowe, J. Dumbauld, H. Fauland, R. Gilmour, B. Goldstein, A. Haverland, C. Jones, S. Kelley, N. Lyell, A. Martinez, A. Murphy, N. O'Meara, K. Payne, T. Pierce, P. Poer, D. Post, and K. Van Vlack. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.",
year = "2020",
month = jun,
day = "1",
doi = "10.3390/su12114764",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "12",
journal = "Sustainability",
issn = "2071-1050",
publisher = "MDPI AG",
number = "11",
}