ABSTRACT
On all the islands of the Caribbean, well-qualified professionals are needed with the skills to carry out comprehensive planning and to find techniques to mitigate the negative effects of development and population growth. Sadly, the region now only has a tiny percentage of the planners, general resource managers, foresters, fisheries managers, and environmental technicians needed (Jackson 1980; Putney and Geoghegan 1987). Perhaps the most urgent resource management need for the region therefore is quality training. Failure to meet the challenge of providing sufficient numbers of appropriately trained resource managers has tragic implications for the environment as well as for the quality of life for human populations in the region over the long term. The Consortium of Caribbean Universities for Resource Management has the potential to be a very valuable and powerful tool in the struggle to realize sustainable development on the islands of the Caribbean.
