Several Caribbean countries experience high levels of water scarcity and
water stress. This poses an enormous development challenge for the region
given growing demand, inadequate infrastructure and low investment in
the water sector. A vast literature examines the impact of the management
of global water resources on climate change, poverty and sustainable
development. However, few studies have considered the impact of water
scarcity on growth and sustainable development in the Caribbean. This

This paper historically situates conservation as a phenomenon, drawing
out its cultural particularity by placing it alongside Jamaican Maroon
environmental philosophies. Conservationists tend to care for non-human
life anonymously, in the abstract, and seldom for particular beings.
Maroons tend to exercise care toward intimately known non-human
others, revealing the potential harm anonymous care can enact when
exercised in places like Jamaica’s Maroon towns. However, emergent