RI Sea Grant, RI Coastal Resources Center and URI Landscape Architecture Department Collaborate on Resilient Coastal Greenways

The State of Rhode Island, the smallest of the fifty states in the United States, is 37 miles wide and 47 miles long, yet has 400 miles of coastline (CRMC, 2012). Twenty-one of its thirty-nine communities have coastal property. Like many coastal communities, this ocean state faces significant ecological, financial and safety issues due to climate change and sea level rise (CRMC, 2015a; Rodin, 2014). Various partnerships between local and federal government agencies and the private sector have arisen to help avert a disaster (Sasaki Associates, 2014). This paper will speak to a unique newly created relationship and how that partnership has facilitated positive outcomes in greenways and coastal development. This partnership is between RI Sea Grant (RISG), the University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography’s Coastal Resources Center (CRC) and the University of Rhode Island’s undergraduate Landscape Architecture program. RISG is one of 33 programs under the National Sea Grant Program of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). RISG’s mission is to “support research, outreach and educational programs to foster vibrant and coastal communities and marine environments.” Housed in the University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography, CRC has a global reach that plans and implements initiatives in fisheries and aquaculture, climate change, community planning and marine spatial planning. The University of Rhode Island’s Landscape Architecture undergraduate department (LAR) is a small program of 60-70 students and 5 full-time faculty that plays a key role in educating the next generation of problem solvers. The graduated students find work in state and federal government, local private firms as well as international landscape architecture and interdisciplinary firms. This document uses a spring 2014 senior LAR project as a case study to show how the collaboration of the 3 entities enriched the educational experience of the students, brought diverse professionals together and provided for an educational event and subsequent tools for the community

Changing Sugar Technology and the Labour Nexus in the British Caribbean, 1750-1900, with Special Reference to Barbados and Jamaica

Author examines the pattern and direction of technological change in the cane sugar industry of Barbados and Jamaica, and analyses the impact of this change on the employment, productivity, and welfare of workers engaged in the production of sugar

The Condition of the Slaves on the Sugar Plantations of Sir John Gladstone in the Colony of Demerara, 1812-49

Reconstructs the business activities of the Scottish-born Liverpool merchant and plantation owner John Gladstone, placed within the context of slavery and the abolition of slavery, and the general colonial history of British Guiana, particularly in the Demerara colony. Author describes how Gladstone acquired several plantations with slaves in Demerara, and how he responded to the increasing criticism of slavery, and the bad conditions of slaves in these Demerara plantations. He describes how Gladstone was an absentee owner in Jamaica and Guyana, where he never set foot, and depended on information by his plantation attorneys or managers, who generally painted too positive a picture of the slaves' conditions, which in reality were characterized by high mortality rates, disease, and abuse of slaves. Also discusses the Demerara slave revolt of 1823 affecting some of Gladstone's plantations

Doctors and·Slaves: A medical and demographic history of slavery in the British West Indies, 1680-1834

This book has been made available with the permission of the publisher.In this study Professor Sheridan presents a rich and wide-ranging account of the health care of slaves in the British West Indies, from 1680–1834. He demonstrates that while Caribbean island settlements were viewed by mercantile statesmen and economists as ideal colonies, the physical and medical realities were very different. The study is based on wide research in archival materials in Great Britain, the West Indies and the United States. By steeping himself in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century sources, Professor Sheridan is able to recreate the milieu of a past era: he tells us what the slave doctors wrote and how they functioned, and he presents a storehouse of information on how and why the slaves sickened and died. By bringing together these diverse medical demographic and economic sources, Professor Sheridan casts new light on the history of slavery in the Americas