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Managing the environmental crisis in Ghana : the role of African traditional religion and culture with special reference to the Berekum traditional area / by Samuel Awuah-Nyamekye.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Awuah-Nyamekye, Samuel, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Religion and politics--Africa.
- Religion and politics.
- Religion and politics--Africa--Berekum.
- Ghana--Economic conditions.
- Ghana.
- Ghana--Economic policy--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (217 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Due to the strong inroads that Western scientism and Western Christianity have made in Africa as a result of colonialism, post-colonial African governments have tended to rely solely on Western scientific conservation epistemologies and models to the neglect of those of the Indigenous African peoples in addressing their environmental problems. However, there is enough evidence that neither modern (scientific) nor indigenous epistemologies and modes of addressing current ecological problems ar...
- Contents:
- CONTENTS; LIST OF TABLES; LIST OF FIGURES; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; PART II; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; PART III; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 26, 2014).
- ISBN:
- 1-4438-7132-X
- OCLC:
- 896794134
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