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Biogeography, environmental history, and sustainability in coastal Ghana / Michael O'Neal Campbell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Campbell, Michael O'Neal, 1965-
- Series:
- African Political, Economic, and Security Issues Environmental Science, Engineering and Technology
- African political, economic, and security issues
- Environmental science, engineering, and technology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Biogeography--Ghana--Atlantic Coast.
- Biogeography.
- Human ecology--Ghana--Atlantic Coast--History.
- Human ecology.
- Vegetation dynamics--Ghana--Atlantic Coast.
- Vegetation dynamics.
- Savannas--Ghana--Atlantic Coast.
- Savannas.
- Savanna ecology--Ghana--Atlantic Coast.
- Savanna ecology.
- Coastal ecology--Ghana.
- Coastal ecology.
- Rural development--Environmental aspects--Ghana--Atlantic Coast.
- Rural development.
- Sustainable development--Ghana--Atlantic Coast.
- Sustainable development.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (144 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Nova Science Publishers, c2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The critical appraisal of deforestation and the methods for such investigations have recently become important issues internationally. This book examines the socio-environmental relations and environmental changes in the African savanna. Socio-environmental relations in sub-Saharan Africa: the externalities of deforestation, floods, droughts, fires, socio-political upheavals, diseases and tribally, regionally relevant wars; still capture the headlines of the global media. However, Africa is still a continent dominated by farming and the socio-environmental externalities of this include forest border change and fragmentation, reactions to rainfall and associated results, urban markets and the implications of population change. These issues may be described as perennially relevant and under-investigated.
- Contents:
- The African savanna : a debated context
- The coastal savanna and Tuba-Aplaku Plains
- Deforestation and multidirectional vegetation change in the Tuba-Aplaku Plains
- Climate change : questions of significance
- Actors, structures and the structuration of socio-environmental relations
- Solutions, prospects and new directions.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [109]-116) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-62257-990-9
- OCLC:
- 923668390
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