Michelle Mycoo
Biographic Data
| ID | 1340805 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michelle Mycoo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michelle |
| FAMILY NAME | Mycoo |
| SIGNATURE | MYCOO M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the West Indies |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3587-9014 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Navigating the winds of change
In an era of increased complexity, interdependence, uncertainty and rapidly advancing technology, the ability to identify and swiftly adapt to current and future trends is key to progressing sustainability. Intersecting drivers and stressors are converging to destabilize socioecological systems and reshape national, regional and global outlooks. The intersecting and converging crises of the 21st century have exposed the limits of planning that re…
Surging seas, rising sea levels, and sinking communities
"Understanding "Islandness
Islandness is a contested concept, not just between disciplines but also cultures, entangled with what islands, \nisland studies, and island identity are understood to be. The purpose of this article is to explore some of these \ndifferent meanings, without necessarily unifying or reconciling them, with the aim of keeping multiple \nunderstandings of islandness in creative tension. We begin by considering islandness as smallness, recognizing \nth…
Small Island Developing States in a post‐pandemic world
Small Island Developing States (SIDS) have been impacted by and responded to COVID‐19 in ways that give us clues about vulnerabilities under climate change, as well as pathways to resilience. Here, we reflect on some of these experiences drawing on case study examples from the Caribbean, Pacific, and Indian Ocean SIDS, exploring how SIDS have responded to COVID‐19 and considering the potential for coping mechanisms enacted for the pandemic to sup…
Urban sustainability in Caribbean Small Island Developing States
Urban planners in the Caribbean have long advocated for a resolution of conflicts between built development and the environment. They have grappled with challenges of small geographic size, an increasingly urbanised landscape and the need to facilitate urban centres as engines of economic development and as the loci of prosperity. This article investigates the urban planning community’s perspective with respect to the drivers of unsustainable urb…
A Blue Urban Agenda
Over the past two decades, national and local governments in Caribbean and Pacific Small Island Development States have partnered with the donor community to implement over $55 billion in development programs, many of which focused on climate change adaptation. The coastal cities of the Caribbean and Pacific SIDS are among the world's most vulnerable cities to rising sea levels and coastal erosion. Currently 20% of the population of these countri…
A Caribbean New Urban Agenda post-Habitat III
Coastal management, climate change adaptation and sustainability in small coastal communities
The Retreat of the Upper and Middle Classes to Gated Communities in the Poststructural Adjustment Era
The emergence of gated communities of the upper-income and middle-income classes can be directly traced to the failure of governments to close the growing divide between rich and poor and to solve the accompanying wave of crime and fear of violence. It is also a result of an abandonment of faith in governments' capacities to deliver and maintain infrastructure and civic services. State failure has influenced people's decisions to encircle their l…
Minimising foreign control of land in an era of globalisation prospects for St. Lucia
Adopting integrated coastal planning and management
Land reclamation and the building of coastal structures often take place in response to demands from tourism, industry and the upper-income housing market. The development strategy for islands is to capture the high amenity value of the coast and to provide 'solution space' for congested urban areas. However, in the absence of a strategic statutory planning framework or clear policy guidelines, ad hoc decisions are made that compromise feasible f…
"Understanding "Islandness
Islandness is a contested concept, not just between disciplines but also cultures, entangled with what islands, \nisland studies, and island identity are understood to be. The purpose of this article is to explore some of these \ndifferent meanings, without necessarily unifying or reconciling them, with the aim of keeping multiple \nunderstandings of islandness in creative tension. We begin by considering islandness as smallness, recognizing \nth…
The Retreat of the Upper and Middle Classes to Gated Communities in the Poststructural Adjustment Era
The emergence of gated communities of the upper-income and middle-income classes can be directly traced to the failure of governments to close the growing divide between rich and poor and to solve the accompanying wave of crime and fear of violence. It is also a result of an abandonment of faith in governments' capacities to deliver and maintain infrastructure and civic services. State failure has influenced people's decisions to encircle their l…
Small Island Developing States in a post‐pandemic world
Small Island Developing States (SIDS) have been impacted by and responded to COVID‐19 in ways that give us clues about vulnerabilities under climate change, as well as pathways to resilience. Here, we reflect on some of these experiences drawing on case study examples from the Caribbean, Pacific, and Indian Ocean SIDS, exploring how SIDS have responded to COVID‐19 and considering the potential for coping mechanisms enacted for the pandemic to sup…
A Caribbean New Urban Agenda post-Habitat III
Minimising foreign control of land in an era of globalisation prospects for St. Lucia
Surging seas, rising sea levels, and sinking communities
Coastal management, climate change adaptation and sustainability in small coastal communities
Adopting integrated coastal planning and management
Land reclamation and the building of coastal structures often take place in response to demands from tourism, industry and the upper-income housing market. The development strategy for islands is to capture the high amenity value of the coast and to provide 'solution space' for congested urban areas. However, in the absence of a strategic statutory planning framework or clear policy guidelines, ad hoc decisions are made that compromise feasible f…
Minimising foreign control of land in an era of globalisation prospects for St. Lucia
The Retreat of the Upper and Middle Classes to Gated Communities in the Poststructural Adjustment Era
The emergence of gated communities of the upper-income and middle-income classes can be directly traced to the failure of governments to close the growing divide between rich and poor and to solve the accompanying wave of crime and fear of violence. It is also a result of an abandonment of faith in governments' capacities to deliver and maintain infrastructure and civic services. State failure has influenced people's decisions to encircle their l…
Coastal management, climate change adaptation and sustainability in small coastal communities
A Blue Urban Agenda
Over the past two decades, national and local governments in Caribbean and Pacific Small Island Development States have partnered with the donor community to implement over $55 billion in development programs, many of which focused on climate change adaptation. The coastal cities of the Caribbean and Pacific SIDS are among the world's most vulnerable cities to rising sea levels and coastal erosion. Currently 20% of the population of these countri…
A Caribbean New Urban Agenda post-Habitat III
Urban sustainability in Caribbean Small Island Developing States
Urban planners in the Caribbean have long advocated for a resolution of conflicts between built development and the environment. They have grappled with challenges of small geographic size, an increasingly urbanised landscape and the need to facilitate urban centres as engines of economic development and as the loci of prosperity. This article investigates the urban planning community’s perspective with respect to the drivers of unsustainable urb…
Small Island Developing States in a post‐pandemic world
Small Island Developing States (SIDS) have been impacted by and responded to COVID‐19 in ways that give us clues about vulnerabilities under climate change, as well as pathways to resilience. Here, we reflect on some of these experiences drawing on case study examples from the Caribbean, Pacific, and Indian Ocean SIDS, exploring how SIDS have responded to COVID‐19 and considering the potential for coping mechanisms enacted for the pandemic to sup…
"Understanding "Islandness
Islandness is a contested concept, not just between disciplines but also cultures, entangled with what islands, \nisland studies, and island identity are understood to be. The purpose of this article is to explore some of these \ndifferent meanings, without necessarily unifying or reconciling them, with the aim of keeping multiple \nunderstandings of islandness in creative tension. We begin by considering islandness as smallness, recognizing \nth…
Surging seas, rising sea levels, and sinking communities
Navigating the winds of change
In an era of increased complexity, interdependence, uncertainty and rapidly advancing technology, the ability to identify and swiftly adapt to current and future trends is key to progressing sustainability. Intersecting drivers and stressors are converging to destabilize socioecological systems and reshape national, regional and global outlooks. The intersecting and converging crises of the 21st century have exposed the limits of planning that re…
Geography (10 works) · Political science (7 works) · Climate change (5 works) · Economics (5 works) · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration (4 works) · Ecology (4 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Environmental planning (4 works) · Environmental resource management (4 works) · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs (4 works)