A Forest Beyond the Trees: Tree Cutting in Rural Ghana

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dc.contributor.authorDei, George J. S.
dc.coverage.countryGhanaen_US
dc.coverage.regionAfricaen_US
dc.date.accessioned2010-01-26T15:21:04Z
dc.date.available2010-01-26T15:21:04Z
dc.date.issued1991en_US
dc.description.abstract"This paper examines the complexity of human forces involved in the processes of tree cutting in a Ghanaian forest region. It provides evidence to link the indiscriminate tree cutting activities in some local communities to the gradual loss of communal control over land and the replacement of kin group control with state property regimes. The author points to the interrelated factors of the state's promotion of an export-led development strategy and the intensification of agricultural commercialization, as well as household and group differential and unequal access to land as all having a deleterious impact on local traditions of sustainable forestry."en_US
dc.identifier.citationconfdatesSeptember 26-30en_US
dc.identifier.citationconferenceCommon Property Conference, the Second Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Propertyen_US
dc.identifier.citationconflocWinnipeg, Manitobaen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10535/5431
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.subjectdeforestationen_US
dc.subjectland tenure and useen_US
dc.subjectrural affairsen_US
dc.subjectforestryen_US
dc.subjectsustainabilityen_US
dc.subjectIASCen_US
dc.subject.sectorForestryen_US
dc.titleA Forest Beyond the Trees: Tree Cutting in Rural Ghanaen_US
dc.typeConference Paperen_US
dc.type.methodologyCase Studyen_US
dc.type.publishedunpublisheden_US

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