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Forest Transition Deficiency Syndrome

The Case of Forest Communities in the High Forest Zone of Ghana

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  • © 2019

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Authors:
  1. Emmanuel Ametepeh

    1. Frankfurt a.M., Germany

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  • Publication in the field of climate change policy and forest management

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XV
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  2. Introduction

    • Emmanuel Ametepeh
    Pages 1-18

  3. Forest Transition Theory – Pathways to Forest Sustainability

    • Emmanuel Ametepeh
    Pages 19-81

  4. Globalization Pathway Policies and Institutional Framework

    • Emmanuel Ametepeh
    Pages 83-140

  5. Domestic Pathway Policies and Institutional Framework

    • Emmanuel Ametepeh
    Pages 141-185

  6. From Deficiencies to Syndrome: A Case Study of Policies in Practice

    • Emmanuel Ametepeh
    Pages 187-293

  7. Hybrid-Pathways for Ghana – Recommendations

    • Emmanuel Ametepeh
    Pages 295-318

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 319-356
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While previous studies focus on lack of enforcement of forest laws, poverty, and ecological values of forest dependent people, coherent studies on people’s motivations for forest illegalities and non-compliance behavior remain scanty. Emmanuel Ametepeh argues that the systematic analysis of cause-and-effect patterns related to forest management measures and policies through the lenses of the Forest Transition Theory uncovers severe limitations. The resulting multi-complex stress factors adversely impact and hence manifest in the form of deviant compliance behavior (“syndrome”) in the management endeavor of forest-fringe people. The Author shows that motivations for forest illegalities and associated non-compliance behavior is largely an outcome of adverse experiences forest people have been subjected to as a result of historical and contemporary neglects and marginalization in the management endeavor.


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  • Frankfurt a.M., Germany

    Emmanuel Ametepeh

About the author

Emmanuel Ametepeh received his doctoral degree under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Regina Kreide at the Faculty of Social and Cultural Studies at the University of Giessen, Germany.


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