Africa, tropical timber, turfs and trade : geographic perspectives on Ghana's timber industry and development /
This book examines development issues, particularly spatial integration, in Sub-Saharan Africa regarding its tropical timber trade, and the related formal-informal operational turf creation, control and dynamics. Focusing primarily on Ghana, it examines the scramble to control the timber trade by va...
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Language: | English |
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Lanham [Md.] :
Lexington Books,
2012
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Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Africa, turfs and trade : theoretical and historical framework
- Turf establishment and the development process : structural foundations of Ghana's timber industry
- Independence, instability and contested turfs : structural changes in the timber industry
- Turf reclamation strategies : neo-liberalism and the timber industry
- Turf recapture and consolidation for the timber trade : Ghana's economic recovery program
- Structural adjustment, the timber trade and turf degradation : political convenience and desperate deforestation
- Turf dynamics and conflicts, the timber trade and spatial integration
- Debt, dependence, turf control and Ghana's economy
- Conclusions and lessons for twenty-first century Africa.