Analysis of the Social-Ecological Causes of Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Ghana: Application of the DPSIR Framework

0543138 - ÚVGZ 2022 RIV CH eng J - Článek v odborném periodiku
Kyere-Boateng, Richard - Marek, Michal V.
Analysis of the Social-Ecological Causes of Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Ghana: Application of the DPSIR Framework.
Forests. Roč. 12, č. 4 (2021), č. článku 409. E-ISSN 1999-4907
Grant CEP: GA MŠMT(CZ) LM2018123
Výzkumná infrastruktura: CzeCOS III - 90123
Institucionální podpora: RVO:86652079
Klíčová slova: land-cover changes * redd plus * ecosystem services * conservation area * ashanti region * river-basin * dependent communities * resource-management * traditional area * rain-forest * social-ecological * Ghana * high forest zones (HFZs) * deforestation & * forest degradation (D& * fd) * DPSIR framework
Obor OECD: Forestry
Impakt faktor: 3.282, rok: 2021
Způsob publikování: Open access
https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/12/4/409

Globally, forests provide several functions and services to support humans' well-being and the mitigation of greenhouse gases (GHGs). The services that forests provide enable the forest-dependent people and communities to meet their livelihood needs and well-being. Nevertheless, the world's forests face a twin environmental problem of deforestation and forest degradation (D&FD), resulting in ubiquitous depletion of forest biodiversity and ecosystem services and eventual loss of forest cover. Ghana, like any tropical forest developing country, is not immune to these human-caused D&FD. This paper reviews Ghana's D&FD driven by a plethora of pressures, despite many forest policies and interventions to ensure sustainable management and forest use. The review is important as Ghana is experiencing an annual D&FD rate of 2%, equivalent to 135,000 hectares loss of forest cover. Although some studies have focused on the causes of D&FD on Ghana' forests, they failed to show the chain of causal links of drivers that cause D&FD. This review fills the knowledge and practice gap by adopting the Driver-Pressures-State-Impacts-Responses (DPSIR) analytical framework to analyse the literature-based sources of causes D&FD in Ghana. Specifically, the analysis identified agriculture expansion, cocoa farming expansion, illegal logging, illegal mining, population growth and policy failures and lapses as the key drivers of Ghana's D&FD. The study uses the DPSIR analytical framework to show the chain of causal links that lead to the country's D&FD and highlights the numerous interventions required to reverse and halt the ubiquitous perpetual trend of D&FD in Ghana. Similar tropical forest countries experiencing D&FD will find the review most useful to curtail the menace.
Trvalý link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0320424