Perceived synergy between deforestation and/or forest degradation and climate variability and change in the Ejisu-Juaben Municipality, Ghana

Abalo, Emmanuel Mawuli; Peprah, Prince; Appiah, Divine Odame; Sarpong, Belinda Serkyiwah Asante; Amankwaa, Godfred; Nakoja, Yagah

doi:10.1515/environ-2017-0019

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“…In addition to the anthropogenic drivers of D&FD, natural climatic factors have been associated with D&FD directly and indirectly [70,105]. Since tropical rainforests are located in areas with water ecosystem resources, any hydrological changes that occur will significantly affect ecological patterns, processes and functions [106].…”

Section: Climate Change Impactsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Also, decreasing precipitation trends can cause frequent drought and frequent fires leading to D&FD [107]. The climatic and natural factors result in droughts, long dry spell, high temperature, and low rainfall, which cause a significant reduction in farmers' crop yields [70,71,105]. Drought associated wildfires caused significant forest reserve destruction in Ghana's forest reserve areas, especially in 2016, where the estimated fire was 2137 km [41].…”

Section: Climate Change Impactsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For example, a study by [62] on climate variability and climate change responses by smallholder farmers in rural southern Ghana indicates that climate variability and climate change cause high-temperature rise, and erratic rainfall patterns driving farmers to clear virgin forests to increase food crop production. Climate variability and change (CVC) reduces farmers' crops yields pushing them to clear new and virgin forest to increase crop production yields [105]. Thus, the hydrological factors that fuel drought drive forest fires, reducing forest capacity to sequester and store carbon and providing other provisioning ecosystem services.…”

Section: Climate Change Impactsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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

Kyere-Boateng

Marek

2021

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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.

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Section: Climate Change Impactsmentioning

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Section: Climate Change Impactsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Climate Change Impactsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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

Kyere-Boateng

Marek

2021

Forests

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“…Moreover, tropical deforestation has been causing higher global carbon emissions (Locatelli 2016), leading to the accumulation of CO 2 between land and the atmosphere (Pan et al 2011). In addition, tropical forests face various anthropogenic disturbances such as logging, fire and agricultural sources of deforestation and forest degradation (Abalo et al 2017 andEssandoh-Yeddu 2018).…”

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Assessing changes in ecosystem service provision in the Bia-Tano forest reserve for sustained carbon mitigation and non-timber forest products provision

Kyere-boateng¹,

Marek²,

Huba³

2022

geogrcas

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Assessing changes in ecosystem service provision in the Bia-Tano forest reserve for sustained carbon mitigation and non-timber forest products provisionThe Millennium Ecosystem defined ecosystem services as "the benefits people derive from ecosystems". Besides provisioning services or goods like food, wood and other raw materials, plants, animals, fungi, and micro-organisms, ecosystem sevices provide essential regulating services such as pollination of crops, prevention of soil erosion, water purification and a vast array of cultural services, like recreation and a sense of place. Forest ecosystems also provide numerous services, benefits, and goods that benefit human wellbeing and mitigate carbon emissions. In many developing countries, forest ecosystem services serve as a vital means of providing food, reducing poverty and creating employment. This study uses GIS and satellite images to assess the changes in forest ecosystem services in the Bia-Tano forest reserve from 1990 to 2020. The purpose was to ascertain how human interventions and activities have contributed to the decrease in the service provision of Bia-Tano forest reserveʼs ecosystem services. We argue that LULC (Land Use Land Cover) changes affect the potential of the forest reserve to provide numerous products and services to benefit fringe communities and carbon mitigation. In all two sets of Classified Land Use Land Cover Images (CLULCI) co-vering the years 1990, 2000, 2011 and 2020 for the Bia-Tano forest reserve and surrounding areas and CLULCI for the actual forest reserve using the same years. The findings further revealed that the fringe communityʼs livelihood activities have contributed to the decrease in the quality and quantity of the forest reserve over the past 30 years, with closed forest decline, while built-up areas, barren areas, planted/cultivated areas and open forest continue to increase. Furthermore, the excessive exploitation of natural resources from the reserve, coupled with illegal encroachment, and frequent access to timber and fuelwood, threaten the conservation of the reserveʼs biodiversity and sustainability of ecosystem services. The findings show inadequate forest governance mechanisms to conserve and protect the reserve from further degradation and depletion of the reserve's resources. The livelihoods of fringe communities depend on the sale and consumption of NTFPs (Non-Timber Forest Products) from the reserve. Hence the changes in the forest reserves cover vegetation will reduce the NTFPs collected/harvested by fringe communities to support their livelihoods and wellbeing. Therefore, there is the need to tighten and strengthen the governance processes and mechanisms through participatory governance and enforcement of the rules and regulations to sustainably conserve and protect the reserve from deforestation and forest degradation.

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Perceived synergy between deforestation and/or forest degradation and climate variability and change in the Ejisu-Juaben Municipality, Ghana

Cited by 2 publications

References 74 publications

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

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

Assessing changes in ecosystem service provision in the Bia-Tano forest reserve for sustained carbon mitigation and non-timber forest products provision

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