The relatively short social and economic history of the urban Gulf has undergone radical evolutions over recent years …

This paper reviews the situation in the agricultural sector and food security in Cuba and in particular the … countries" and show that Cuba does not fit easily in one of the transition patterns, and, in a way, has characteristics of "a …

social policies were the main social elevators for the formerly underprivileged classes in socialist Cuba, the economic … business sector in Cuba has largely disfavoured Afro-Cubans, due to their lack of access to pre-revolutionary property and …

The collection of solid waste and the recovery of recyclable material from waste belong to the many challenges Cuba has … causes of the obvious deficiencies of the waste sector. We conducted a small survey in Havana city in order to assess peoples … waste management we develop suggestions for an improvement of the waste situation in Cuba. These suggestions take into …

deviant case of Cuba's 'non-transition' from a comparative social science perspective can shed light on the peculiarities of … this case and, more importantly, test the general assumptions underlying post-1989 expectations of regime change in Cuba … exceptionalism with a more long-term historic perspective. Moreover, they suggest that interpretations of Cuba as simply a 'belated …