Ecological Knowledge and the Regional Economy

Environmental Management in the Asesewa District of Ghana

Bibliographic Data

ID4862368
AuthorsKojo Amanor (Instituto de Estudios Sociales, corresponding author), Kojo Sebastian Amanor
Year1994
Volume25
Issue1
Pages41-67
Publication date1994-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDevelopment and Change (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0012-155X • E-ISSN: 1467-7660
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-7660.1994.tb00509.x
OpenAlexW1991055827
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited14

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

Agriculture · Context (archaeology) · Economic growth · Economics · Ecotone · Environmental degradation · Environmental resource management · Geography · Perception · Political science · Politics · Production (economics) · Sustainable development · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Ecology

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