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Environment and Health in Sub-Saharan Africa: Managing an Emerging Crisis

Selected Papers from ERTEP 2007, July 17-19 2007, Ghana, Africa

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Editors:
  1. Isaac N. Luginaah
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  2. Ernest K. Yanful
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  • A showcase of environment and health management in developing countries
  • Exposition of environmental and environmental health challenges that the world’s vulnerable population faces
  • A review of environmental policies in Sub-Saharan Africa

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Environment Health and Management Issues

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 2-2
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    2. Characteristics and Determinants of Food Insecurity in Sub-Saharan Africa

      • Paul Mkandawire, Nathaniel D. Aguda
      Pages 3-23

    3. Environment, Migration and Food Security in the Upper West Region of Ghana

      • Isaac Luginaah, Tony Weis, Sylvester Galaa, Mathew K. Nkrumah, Rachel Benzer-Kerr, Daniel Bagah
      Pages 25-38

    4. Integrating Food Security and Agri-environmental Quality in Southern Africa: Implications for Policy

      • Oluyede Clifford Ajayi, Festus K. Akinnifesi, Gudeta Sileshi, Sebastian Chakeredza, Simon Mng’omba
      Pages 39-49

  5. Sustainability and Social Responsibility

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 128-128
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    2. Assessing Sustainability: The Missing Elements in Current Environmental Assessment Approaches

      • Tarsha N. Eason (Dargan), Yaw A. Owusu, Hans Chapman
      Pages 129-139

    3. Precarious Balance: The Future of Environmental Degradation in Sub-Saharan Africa

      • Godwin Arku, Paul Mkandawire
      Pages 141-154

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 155-165
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This book is the second edited compilation of selected, refereed papers submitted to ERTEP 2007. The book is organized into 10 chapters along four of the key themes that were discussed at the conference: Environmental Health Management; Mining and Environment; Environmental Monitoring and Policy Development; and Susta- ability and Social Responsibility. It is hoped that the contents of the book will p- vide an insight into some of the environmental and health management challenges confronting the developing world and the steps being taken to address them. The ?rst three chapters under the Environmental Health and Management theme discusses issues related to food security and related environmental distress in sub- Saharan Africa. Chapter 1 argues that pervasive poverty and low agricultural p- ductivity are important factors in understanding food insecurity in the region, and broader global processes are examined. This chapter maintains that while poverty undermines individual and household access to suf?cient food through market p- chase, land inequalities, corruption, structural adjustment programs, civil con?ict, HIV/AIDS and the role of the World Trade Organization Agreement on Agric- ture are decisive. The authors argue that achieving food security in sub-Saharan Africa requires policies and actions that are integrated with efforts to reduce poverty, enhance livelihoods and incomes and increase agricultural output, while also paying attention to underlying structural factors that bear on agriculture in the region.

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