Current convenience, desperate deforestation: Ghana's adjustmentprogram and the forestry sector

Professional Geographer

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 418-436

  Owusu, J Henry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Debt; Deforestation; Environmental destruction; Ghana; Structural adjustment

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001716334     PISSN: 00330124     EISSN: 14679272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0033-0124.00130     Document Type: Article

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