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Ecological Knowledge and the Regional Economy: Environmental Management in the Asesewa District of Ghana
Author(s) -
Amanor Kojo Sebastian
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
development and change
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.267
H-Index - 93
eISSN - 1467-7660
pISSN - 0012-155X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-7660.1994.tb00509.x
Subject(s) - ecotone , context (archaeology) , agriculture , politics , environmental degradation , sustainable development , production (economics) , perception , political science , environmental resource management , economic growth , economics , geography , ecology , macroeconomics , archaeology , shrub , neuroscience , law , biology
This study examines perceptions of the environment in farming communities in the forest ecotone of Ghana. It places local knowledge within a socio‐economic and historical context and argues that knowledge is continually evolving, attempting to solve existing problems and discovering new ones. It maintains that favourable conditions exist in farming communities for environmental actions and development approaches based on sustainable development, since these areas have suffered from the negative effects of degradation. However, major constraints exist within the wider political economy and policy framework, which is still locked into environmentally‐hostile export‐oriented production, and political models which marginalize rural people.