Biocultural Diversity and Natural Resources Management in Ghana

ISBN-13: 9783844332018 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 132 str.

Augustine Yelfaanibe

Opis

In Ghana, discourses in the drive for an appropriate, effective and more sustainable natural resource management remains a challenge to both research and policy. Existing policies and debates have ignore or undervalue the vital and intricate relationship between community people and their natural environment which shape and define the traditional cosmology of indigenous people and influence their worlviews and the way natural resources are managed. Although some attempts have been made to integrate both formal and informal management sytems and practices, they fail to properly incorporate the worldviews and spirituality of local cultures in their approach. Using multiple case studies of indigenous cultures of the Upper West Region this book assesses and discusses the intricate relationships in indigenous cultures and the opportunities that these relationship offer in the search for sustainable natural resource management alternatives using a biocultural lens. It would be of enormous value to students and professionals both in and outside the academia as long as the search for sustainable natural resource management option in new globalising system.

O autorze

Augustine Yelfaanibe,MPhil (Development Studies),Tamale, Ghana. He is a Senior Researh Assistant, Faculty of Integrated Development Studies,UDS, Wa Campus. His research interest is in environment and natural resources, climate change, migration and the adaptiveness of indigenous worldviews and institutions in a modernising global system.