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Kidane-Mariam T 《Environmental management》2003,31(3):0313-0327
This article examines the environment and habitat management experiences of Ethiopia and Ghana in the postindependence period
(1960–2000). Based on extensive archival research, semistructured focused interviews of environment and habitat officers of
the World Bank, the United Nations System and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and personal professional
field experiences, the paper argues that the uncritical adoption of externally generated discourses, narratives, policy guidelines,
and strategies of environmental and habitat management has structured thought and action in both countries. The experience
of both countries in defining and responding to environmental and human settlement management is explored from a political
ecology perspective. The analysis indicates that both countries have essentially adopted a technocratic, state-centered, and
unsustainable management strategy framework based on population control, poverty reduction, sustainable development, and capacity-building.
It also suggests that international organizations such as the World Bank, INCN, and the United Nations system have been important
sources of thought and action in both countries. Conversely, regional international organizations such as the Economic Commission
for Africa, the Organization of African Unity and the African Development Bank have largely served as conduits for the diffusion
of global discourses, narratives, policies and strategies. The need for adopting management policies and strategies that are
based on principles of multiple engagement, decentralization, incentives, public education, and participation is underscored. 相似文献
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David Anaafo 《Local Environment》2013,18(3):201-215
ABSTRACTThere is an overwhelming scientific consensus that global climate is changing with associated devastating, yet differential impacts on different world regions. This, therefore, calls for efforts to improve our understanding of the phenomenon as a way of enhancing mitigation and adaptation measures. Although a lot has been done in this respect, the present study examines the extent to which misnomers associated with the calendar months and local climate events can be employed to convey the phenomenon of climate change to rural agriculturists in the Bolgatanga municipality. The study establishes that the names of the calendar months, which serve as goalposts for local agricultural practices no longer portray their true meaning due to climate change. The study, therefore, recommends the use of nuanced ways of communicating climate change to local agriculturists, using scientific research, lived experiences as well as socially and culturally embedded tools such as misnomers associated with local climate events. 相似文献