Prof. Elizabeth Thomas-Hope

The James Seivright Moss-Solomon Professor of Environmental Management and Head of Department

elizabeth.thomashope@uwimona.edu.jm

Current Research

• Agro-biodiversity and land management in the Caribbean
• Poverty and Urban Environmental Management
• Environment and Health
• Environmental Perception and its implications for Environmental Management
• International Migration and Migration Policy in regard to the Caribbean

Selected Publications

• Elizabeth Thomas-Hope (ed.) Solid Waste Management: Critical Issues for Developing Countries, Kingston, Jamaica: Canoe, University of the West Indies Press, 1998, 286pp.
• Elizabeth Thomas-Hope, "Emigration Dynamics in the Anglophone Caribbean". In, R. Appleyard (ed.) Emigration Dynamics in Developing Countries: Volume III: Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, London, Ashgate, 1999 pp.232-284.
• Elizabeth Thomas-Hope, "Return Migration to Jamaica and its Development Potential" International Migration, Vol.37 (1), 1999, pp.183-208.
• Elizabeth Thomas-Hope, "Trends and Patterns of Caribbean Migration." Revista Notas de Poblacion, Special Issue, 2001.
• Ivan Goodbody and Elizabeth Thomas-Hope (eds.) Natural Resource Management for Sustainable Development in the Caribbean, Kingston, Jamaica: Canoe, University of the West Indies Press, 2002, 496pp.
• Elizabeth Thomas-Hope, "Transnational Livelihoods and Identities in Return Migration to the Caribbean: The Case of Skilled Returnees to Jamaica". In, Ninna Nyberg Sorensen and Karen Fog Olwig (eds.) Work and Migration: Life and Livelihoods in a Globalizing World, London: Routledge, 2002, 184-201.

Courses

Graduate Students