2017 Report – The University of the West Indies, Geomatics Engineering and Land Management
The University of the West Indies
Department/Institution
Geomatics Engineering and Land Management
Country
Trinidad and Tobago Port-of-Spain
Person filling out the report
Dr. Michelle A Mycoo (Senior Lecturer)
mmycoo@hotmail.com
Associated UNI Thematic Hubs
Informal Urbanism
Safer Cities
Yes
Future Earth Coasts
Other research network affiliations
Yes
Future Earth Coasts
Collaborations with UNI members in academic activities
No
Collaborations with UNI members in research initiatives
No
Undergraduate Programmes
BSc Geomatics Engineering and Land Management
BSc Land Management
BSc Gender Studies
Master Programmes
MSc Urban and Regional Planning
MSc Geomatics
MSc Gender Studies
PhD Programmes
PhD Urban and Regional Planning
PhD Geomatics
Other Programmes
Books
Mycoo, M. and Donovan, M. G. (2017). A Blue Urban Agenda: Adapting to Climate Change in the Coastal Cities of Caribbean and Pacific Small Island Developing States. Inter-American Development Bank, Washington. D.C.
Lane, D.E., Mercer-Clarke, M., Clarke, J.D., Mycoo, M. and Gobin, J.F. (2015). Managing Adaptation to Climate Change in the Coastal Zone. In J. Baztan (eds) Coastal Zone Challenges: 21 Solutions for Our Century.
Articles
Mycoo, M., Griffith-Charles, C. and Lalloo, S. (2017). Land management and environmental change in small-island-developing states: The case of St. Lucia, Regional Environmental Change 17 (4), 1065-1076.
Mycoo, M.(2016). Reforming spatial planning in anglophone Caribbean countries. Planning Theory and Practice 18(1) 89-108.
Mycoo, M. (2015). Communicating Climate Change in Rural Coastal Communities, International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management. Vol 7. Issue 1, 58-75.
3. Mycoo, M. (2014). Autonomous household responses and urban governance capacity building for climate change adaptation: Georgetown, Guyana. Urban Climate. Vol. 9, 134-154.
4. Mycoo, M. (2014). Sustainable Tourism, Climate Change and Sea Level Rise Adaptation Policies: Barbados. Natural Resources Forum. Vol.38, Issue 1, 47-51.
5. Mycoo, M. and Gobin, J. (2013). Coastal Management, Climate Change Adaptation and Sustainability in Small Coastal Communities: Leatherback Turtles and Beach Loss, Sustainability Science, Volume 8, Issue 3, 441-453.
Mycoo, M. and Chadwick, A. (2012). Adaptation to Climate Change: The Coastal Zone of Barbados. Maritime Engineering, Volume 165, Issue 4, 159-168.
Projects
1. International Community-University Research Alliance, Canada. Climate Change Adaptation in Coastal Communities of the Caribbean and Canada
2. European Union African, Caribbean and Pacific. Climate Change Adaptation Strategies for Water Resources and Human Livelihoods in the Coastal Zones of Small Island Developing States (CASCADE) with Centro Euro-Mediterraneo per I Cambiamenti Climatici of Italy and the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre of Belize.
3. Sustainable Land Management and Climate Change Adaptation in the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States.











