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Author : Stefano Boni
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Akan (African people)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123192903
Author : Michael S. Asante
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0761822976
Deforestation in Ghana is a research-based analytical study that explains the disconnect between the declared deforestation policy intentions and their outcomes in Ghana. Intended as a case study of the renewable resources policy process in developing economies, this book provides complete information and clarification about the phenomenon of continued deforestation in Ghana in spite of the long history of policies and actions to control it. Author Michael Asante's detailed in-depth analysis of historical, political, economic, and cultural factors and events fully explain the unending destruction of the forests in Ghana. He provides experts, students, and all others with rational, practical answers and recommendations for this lingering problem.
Author : W. D. Hawthorne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Ecology
ISBN : 0850741343
Author : Thorsten Treue
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789401007061
For the last two decades the loss of, in particular, tropical rainforest has alarmed the public in the developed parts of the world. The debate has been characterised by a lack of understand ing of the causes and effects of the process, leading to the prevailing reaction being unquali fied condemnation. Such attitude has even been observed among scientists, claiming suprem acy to biodiversity conservation. Many scientific analyses are available, but the basis for so ber debates and appropriate actions is still highly insufficient. Two recent international initia tives! will hopefully lead to improved knowledge of deforestation and forest degradation as they recognise the need for studies to critically investigate those issues. This book will pro vide useful input to the initiatives. In my opinion, the scientific analyses have not sufficiently promoted the understanding that the fate of tropical forests is first and foremost a concern of the governments of the countries in which the forests are situated. Tropical forests may be important to the global environment and their rich biodiversity may be a human heritage. But their main importance is their poten tial contribution to improving livelihood in the countries in question.
Author : William Hawthorne,M. Abu-Juam
Publisher : IUCN
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Nature
ISBN : 2831702615
Forest management in Ghana is in a transition period. This report looks at the historical background and forest condition today, summarizes a recent botanical survey, and offers recommendations for a new management regime given the seriously threatened state of many forest reserves.
Author : Susanna B. Hecht,Kathleen D. Morrison,Christine Padoch
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226024134
Forests are in decline, and the threats these outposts of nature face—including deforestation, degradation, and fragmentation—are the result of human culture. Or are they? This volume calls these assumptions into question, revealing forests’ past, present, and future conditions to be the joint products of a host of natural and cultural forces. Moreover, in many cases the coalescence of these forces—from local ecologies to competing knowledge systems—has masked a significant contemporary trend of woodland resurgence, even in the forests of the tropics. Focusing on the history and current use of woodlands from India to the Amazon, The Social Lives of Forests attempts to build a coherent view of forests sited at the nexus of nature, culture, and development. With chapters covering the effects of human activities on succession patterns in now-protected Costa Rican forests; the intersection of gender and knowledge in African shea nut tree markets; and even the unexpectedly rich urban woodlands of Chicago, this book explores forests as places of significant human action, with complex institutions, ecologies, and economies that have transformed these landscapes in the past and continue to shape them today. From rain forests to timber farms, the face of forests—how we define, understand, and maintain them—is changing.
Author : James Mayers,Stephen Bass
Publisher : Earthscan
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781844070961
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Shinichi Takeuchi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811647253
This open access book offers unique in-depth, comprehensive, and comparative analyses of the motivations, context, and outcomes of recent land reforms in Africa. Whereas a considerable number of land reforms have been carried out by African governments since the 1990s, no systematic analysis on their meaning has so far been conducted. In the age of land reform, Africa has seen drastic rural changes. Analysing the relationship between those reforms and change, the chapters in this book reveal not only their socio-economic outcomes, such as accelerated marketisation of land, but also their political outcomes, which have often been contrasting. Countries such as Rwanda and Mozambique have utilised land reform to strengthen state control over land, but other countries, such as Ghana and Zambia, have seen the rise in power of traditional chiefs in managing the land. The comparative perspective of this book clarifies new features of African social changes, which are carefully investigated by area experts. Providing new perspectives on recent land reform, this book will have a considerable impact on scholars as well as policymakers.
Author : Anne M Larson,Deborah Barry,Ganga Ram Dahal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-10
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781136543760
Who has rights to forests and forest resources? In recent years governments in the South have transferred at least 200 million hectares of forests to communities living in and around them . This book assesses the experience of what appears to be a new international trend that has substantially increased the share of the world's forests under community administration. Based on research in over 30 communities in selected countries in Asia (India, Nepal, Philippines, Laos, Indonesia), Africa (Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana) and Latin America (Bolivia, Brazil, Guatemala, Nicaragua), it examines the process and outcomes of granting new rights, assessing a variety of governance issues in implementation, access to forest products and markets and outcomes for people and forests . Forest tenure reforms have been highly varied, ranging from the titling of indigenous territories to the granting of small land areas for forest regeneration or the right to a share in timber revenues. While in many cases these rights have been significant, new statutory rights do not automatically result in rights in practice, and a variety of institutional weaknesses and policy distortions have limited the impacts of change. Through the comparison of selected cases, the chapters explore the nature of forest reform, the extent and meaning of rights transferred or recognized, and the role of authority and citizens' networks in forest governance. They also assess opportunities and obstacles associated with government regulations and markets for forest products and the effects across the cases on livelihoods, forest condition and equity. Published with CIFOR
Author : James Fairhead,Melissa Leach
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781134665174
This study reviews how West African deforestation is represented and the evidence which informs deforestation orthodoxy. On a country by country basis (covering Sierra Leone, Liberia, Cote D'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo and Benin), and using historical and social anthropological evidence the authors evaluate this orthodox critically. Reframing Deforestation suggests that the scale of deforestation wrought by West African farmers during the twentieth century has been vastly exaggerated. The authors argue that global analyses have unfairly stigmatised West Africa and obscured its more sustainable, even landscape-enriching practices. Stessing that dominant policy approaches in forestry and conservation require major rethinking worldwide, Reframing Deforestation illustrates that more realistic assessments of forest cover change, and more respectful attention to local knowledge and practices, are necessary bases for effective and appropriate environmental policies.
Author : Dominic M. Ayine
Publisher : IIED
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Forest products industry
ISBN : 9781843696957
Author : Barry Driscoll
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780896805132
How have the waves of democracy and decentralization that swept the developing world in recent decades affected states—among the most important drivers of poverty and prosperity—at national and local levels in Ghana and beyond? State actors beneath the national level—what Barry Driscoll calls the local state—have considerable responsibility for carrying out state functions, but they are also forced to compete for these local state offices. How does a local state actually work in poor twentieth-century countries? This book offers a descriptive account, as well as a causal explanation, of how political competition affects the local state in Ghana. Driscoll shows how closely fought elections drive local state institutions to provide patronage. The source of these demands for patronage comes not from rent-seeking bureaucrats or landed elites but from the government’s own party volunteers. Driscoll explains how electoral competition affects how local state actors are insulated from such patronage demands. Moreover, these highly competitive, patronage-providing local governments actually have relatively better-qualified senior civil servants at their disposal. Driscoll makes sense of this paradox by introducing the logic of building administrative capacity in order to provide patronage. He then abstracts from the case of Ghana to generalize about how the effect of political competition is shaped by the locally salient variety of clientelism, which in turn is conditioned by the strength of the party system. The book draws on fourteen months of fieldwork in six of Ghana’s districts, far from the nation’s capital city. Ethnographic and interview data come from time spent with market traders, tax collectors, politicians, and other figures in local state offices. Quantitative data come from a survey covering almost all local governments. The result is a detailed account of Ghana’s local state power dynamics that has relevant implications for states across the developing world.
Author : International Institute for Environment & Development
Publisher : IIED
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781843691020
Author : Aled Williams,Philippe Le Billon
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781785361203
This book provides a fresh and extensive discussion of corruption issues in natural resources sectors. Reflecting on recent debates in corruption research and revisiting resource curse challenges in light of political ecology approaches, this volume provides a series of nuanced and policy-relevant case studies analyzing patterns of corruption around natural resources and options to reach anti-corruption goals. The potential for new variations of the resource curse in the forest and urban land sectors and the effectiveness of anti-corruption policies in resource sectors are considered in depth. Corruption in oil, gas, mining, fisheries, biofuel, wildlife, forestry and urban land are all covered, and potential solutions discussed.
Author : William Hawthorne,Ntim Gyakari
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Botany
ISBN : MINN:31951D023731902