A political ecology analysis of tourism development and water equity in Barbados

This article mobilizes insights from political ecology analysis. Specifically, it focuses on how power asymmetries between stakeholder groups may or not produce uneven socio-environmental outcomes in the tourism-water nexus Barbados. Small Island Developing States (SIDS) like Barbados, which obtains an estimated 90% of its water groundwater aquifers, are particularly vulnerable to changing patterns precipitation. While data collected preliminary, they point towards production based very prevalent asymmetries.