Territory, Economy, and Demographic Growth in São Tomé and Príncipe

Anthropogenic Changes in Environment

Bibliographic Data

ID20069296
AuthorsXavier Muñoz-Torrent (Hospital Terrassa, corresponding author), Ngouabi Tiny da Trindade (Centro Nacional de Endemias), Signe Mikulane (Bochum University of Applied Sciences)
Year2022
Pages71-86
Publication date2022-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenueBiodiversity of the Gulf of Guinea Oceanic Islands (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherSpringer International Publishing (PUBLISHER • SG)
DOI10.1007/978-3-031-06153-0_4
OpenAlexW4312670477
ISBN9783031061530
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited4

Nearly five centuries of human presence on the islands of the Gulf of Guinea have considerably marked the landscape with the replacement of natural habitats by roças (plantations) and other settlements, the introduction of numerous exotic plant and animal species, and the exploitation of resources needed for urban construction and daily life of the growing human population. Exponential population growth and, consequently, the urban sprawl are resulting in deforestation, illegal beach sand mining, exhaustion of natural resources, expansion of non-endemic species, and extermination of the endemic ones, thus causing immense resource exploitation and rapid environmental deterioration. The absence of an effective territorial planning amplifies the island’s vulnerability and increases the fragility of the ecosystems, posing clear threats to the islands’ unique biodiversity

Archaeology · Biodiversity · Biology · Deforestation (computer science) · Ecosystem · Environmental protection · Exploitation of natural resources · Geography · Habitat · Human settlement · Land use · Natural (archaeology) · Natural resource · Population · Population growth · Urban sprawl · Vulnerability (computing) · African history and culture studies · Ecology · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories

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