GEOG 3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Human Development Index, Monocropping, Greater Antilles
3 Dec 2020
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Often placed within fields, orchards, and away from towns, had to spend all time on. Movement of rural poor out of the mexican countryside into cities. Vast processing centers in border towns near the us. Constructing the american landscape farms, housing no insulated, bathrooms were bad. Hours were long and labor was hard wages were often garnished guarantees written into contracts often unfulfilled bracers left as hyper-exploitable. Growing criticism that the program harmed domestic workers. Led to the closing of the mexican border. Bus full of immigrants illegally brought in, people killed. Provided some of the groundwork to transistion to the prominence of undocumented. Different types of mountains depending on the chain. Mix of volcanic and non-volcanic lesser antilles rim land: Deforestation problems from colonial history, plantation agriculture, sugar cane. Region is less economically advanced but high hdi, high life expectancy and literacy and gaps in income. Puerto rico looking to put in a renewable resource energy system.
