Conference Theme: “Furthering co-operation in science and technology for Caribbean development”
Organized by the Caribbean Academy of Sciences (CAS) in association with UNESCO and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Held at the Hilton Hotel and Conference Centre, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, 23-26 September 1998
Foreword to the 1998 Proceedings
Plenary Sessions
The importance of science and technology in Caribbean development by Christopher Thomas
Address by the Honourable Dr. Rosa Elena Simeon Negrin, Minister of Science and Technology and Environment, Cuba
Science and Technology eradicating poverty: the unfulfilled promise by Arnoldo K. Ventura
Furthering cooperation in science and technology in the Caribbean: the past experience by Ismael Clark Arxer
Science, technology and the State in Latin America: the end of the twentieth century by Eduardo Martinez
Parallel Sessions
Group 1: Collaboration between the Research Community and the End Users
- Collaboration between the research community and end users: the university industry relationship by Rodrigo Zeledon
- Building a research culture responsive to users needs by Roger Prichard
- Circuits in the transfer of research results to potential users by Jose Antonio Esteva Maraboto
Group 2: Communication and Information Technologies and Challenges
- Science, technology and commerce in the digital age by John D. Evans
- Development in the digital future by Julio Escobar
- Communication and information technologies opportunities for economic development in the Caribbean by Cardinal Warde
Group 3: Disaster Mitigation
- Hurricane hazard mitigation in the Caribbean by J. C. Vermeiren
- Decision-making and risk management by Allan Lavell
- Tropical cyclone warnings and the factors that influence response: the Trinidad and Tobago experience by Steve R. Pollanais
- Volcanic activities and dynamic processes at Soufriere Hills volcano, Montserrat by Jean-Jacques Jeremie
Group 4: Inceasing Public Understanding of Science and Technology
- Science education K-100 by Leon Lederman
- The pyramid of science and technology popularization by Eduardo Martinez
- Increasing public understanding of science and technology by Jeffery W. Dellimore
- Use and management of natural resources by Dennis Pantin
Group 5: Use and Management of Natural Resources
- Natural resource management in the Caribbean and Latin America by D.S. Cassells and G.G. Walkins
- Can water be scarce in the humid tropics: a community-based program for resource management in a coastal area by Patricia Moreno-Casasola
- Proposal for a Caribbean centre for tropical aquaculture by Ted Cowan and Mark Donelon.
