Research Catalog

Title

Politics and economics of tropical high forest management : a case study of Ghana / by Thorsten Treue.

Author

Treue, Thorsten.

Publication

Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, ©2001.

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Details

Description

xxvi, 212 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm.

Summary

"This book provides a case study into the complexity of tropical high forest in Ghana. It documents that national forest inventories for a long time yielded results that were either over-optimistic about the annual allowable cut or of little use at policy level. Yet, the most important reasons for deforestation and forest degradation stem from market and legislative failures. This has resulted in major government and export revenues forgone, and the capacity of the timber industry has become far higher than the annual allowable cut from forest reserves." "Trees outside forest reserves could fill the gap between the timber demand and the capacity of forest reserves. However, sustainable management of trees outside forest reserves requires clear incentives for the actual managers to do so. These managers are the rural people, who also own the land on which the trees grow. Yet, the state owns the trees. Accordingly, the challenge is for the state to replace its old exploitative attitude with a viable production-oriented approach to off-reserve timber resources."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Forestry sciences ; v. 68

Uniform Title

Forestry sciences ; v. 68.

Subject

• Forest management > Ghana
• Forest policy > Ghana
• Forests and forestry > Economic aspects > Ghana
• Forest management
• Forest policy
• Forests and forestry > Economic aspects
• Forstwirtschaft
• Ghana

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 166-170).

Contents

Foreword / F. Helles -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Brief Introduction to Ghana's High Forest Zone -- 3. General Issues on Trees and Forests in High Forest Zone -- 4. The Timber Resource Base, Early Estimates -- 5. National Forest Inventory (1985-89) -- 6. National Forest Inventory Continued (1989-97) -- 7. Analysis of the Timber Harvest -- 8. Timber Exports and the Wood Industry -- 9. Forest Fees and Taxes -- 10. The Economics of Timber Exploitation -- 11. Instruments to Regulate the Timber Harvest -- 12. Rights to Timber and Benefits from Timber Exploitation -- 13. Forest and Tiber Resources Management in the Future.

ISBN

• 0792369319
• 9780792369318

LCCN

2001022468

OCLC

• ocm46462740
• 46462740
• SCSB-1261158

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library