Potential for integrated landscape approaches: A review of Ghana’s national environment and development policies
Key messages
- <li.This brief explores Ghana’s national environment and development policy climate and whether it is conducive to operationalizing an integrated landscape approach (ILA).
- Ghana’s policy framework is geared towards large-scale, near-term development, raising questions regarding environmental impacts and related socioeconomic reverberations. Concerns surrounding future development plans stem from Ghana’s past and present challenges with competing land uses.
- Ghana has many policies and management schemes that support reconciling conservation and development needs; however, barriers to implementation persist.
- Challenge areas include: establishing a transparent change logic that is understood and endorsed across sectors and stakeholder groups. This requires identifying common concern entry points and clarifying rights and responsibilities.
- We suggest a greater commitment to these principles and the adoption of a landscape approach hold potential to enhance social and ecological outcomes in Ghana. Engaging with Ghana’s existing Community Resource Management Area (CREMA) program is an opportunity in this regard.
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Authors
O’Connor, A.,Djoudi, H.,Zida, M.
Publication year
2021
