03509nam 2200649Ia 450 991078551050332120230801224410.01-283-58401-897866138964690-7391-7402-9(CKB)2670000000241451(EBL)1013593(OCoLC)850193216(SSID)ssj0000710968(PQKBManifestationID)12287809(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000710968(PQKBWorkID)10693391(PQKB)10805139(MiAaPQ)EBC1013593(Au-PeEL)EBL1013593(CaPaEBR)ebr10595661(CaONFJC)MIL389646(EXLCZ)99267000000024145120120503d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAfrica, tropical timber, turfs and trade[electronic resource] geographic perspectives on Ghana's timber industry and development /J. Henry OwusuLanham, Md. Lexington Books20121 online resource (283 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-7391-7401-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; List of Figures and Tables; List of Acronyms; Preface; Introduction; Chapter One. Africa, Turfs, and Trade: Theoretical and Historical Framework; Chapter Two. Turf Establishment and the Development Process: Structural Foundations of Ghana's Timber Industry; Chapter Three. Independence, Instability, and Contested Turfs: Structural Changes in the Timber Industry; Chapter Four. Turf Reclamation Strategies: Neo-Liberalism and the Timber Industry; Chapter Five. Turf Recapture and Consolidation for the Timber Trade: Ghana's Economic Recovery ProgramChapter Six. Structural Adjustment, the Timber Trade, and Turf Degradation: Political Convenience and Desperate DeforestationChapter Seven. Turf Dynamics and Conflicts, the Timber Trade, and Spatial Integration; Chapter Eight. Debt, Dependence, Turf Control, and Ghana's Economy; Chapter Nine. Conclusions and Lessons for Twenty-First Century Africa; Bibliography; Index; About the AuthorThis 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 various political and socio-economic interests, from the colonial to the neo-liberal era, and identifies and distills lessons from Ghana's experience for Development policy and practice in Africa and comparable Developing countries in the 21st Century. TimberEconomic aspectsGhanaLumber tradeGhanaNeoliberalismGhanaStructural adjustment (Economic policy)GhanaGhanaEconomic policyGhanaEconomic conditionsTimberEconomic aspectsLumber tradeNeoliberalismStructural adjustment (Economic policy)338.1749809667Owusu J. Henry(John Henry),1953-1506987MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910785510503321Africa, tropical timber, turfs and trade3737434UNINA