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Analysis of the Social-Ecological Causes of Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Ghana: Application of the DPSIR Framework
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SYSNO ASEP 0543138 Druh ASEP J - Článek v odborném periodiku Zařazení RIV J - Článek v odborném periodiku Poddruh J Článek ve WOS Název Analysis of the Social-Ecological Causes of Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Ghana: Application of the DPSIR Framework Tvůrce(i) Kyere-Boateng, Richard (UEK-B)
Marek, Michal V. (UEK-B) RID, ORCID, SAICelkový počet autorů 2 Číslo článku 409 Zdroj.dok. Forests. - : MDPI
Roč. 12, č. 4 (2021)Poč.str. 29 s. Jazyk dok. eng - angličtina Země vyd. CH - Švýcarsko Klíč. 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 Vědní obor RIV GK - Lesnictví Obor OECD Forestry CEP LM2018123 GA MŠMT - Ministerstvo školství, mládeže a tělovýchovy Výzkumná infrastruktura CzeCOS III - 90123 - Ústav výzkumu globální změny AV ČR, v. v. i. Způsob publikování Open access Institucionální podpora UEK-B - RVO:86652079 UT WOS 000643042600001 EID SCOPUS 85103890528 DOI 10.3390/f12040409 Anotace 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. Pracoviště Ústav výzkumu globální změny Kontakt Nikola Šviková, svikova.n@czechglobe.cz, Tel.: 511 192 268 Rok sběru 2022 Elektronická adresa https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/12/4/409
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