Fighting over forest: interactive governance of conflicts over forest and tree resources in Ghana's high forest zone

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Title:	Fighting over forest: interactive governance of conflicts over forest and tree resources in Ghana's high forest zone
Author:	Derkyi, Mercy A.A.
Year:	2012
Issue:	41
Pages:	318
Language:	English
Series:	African Studies Collection (ISSN 1876-0198)
City of publisher:	Leiden
Publisher:	African Studies Centre
ISBN:	9789054481140
Geographic term:	Ghana
Subjects:	forest resources forest management conflict resolution dissertations (form)
External link:	https://hdl.handle.net/1887/19864
Abstract:	By the turn of the millennium, forest governance had been given recognition on Ghana's development agenda. The emergence of various forest governance initiatives increased the diversity of actors in decisionmaking, resource use and management. This resulted in growing competition for resources and conflicting objectives among actors in the system-to-be-governed and the governing systems, with emerging conflicts being the result. The present study set out to explore and analyse governance arrangements, conflicts and conflict management in Ghana's high forest zone using the Tano-Offin forest reserve in Nkawie Forest District as a case study. [ASC Leiden abstract]