全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): Changes in Beliefs and Perceptions about the Natural Environment in the Forest-Savanna Transitional Zone of Ghana: The Influence of Religion

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来源类型	FEEM working papers "Note di lavoro" series
规范类型	论文
	Changes in Beliefs and Perceptions about the Natural Environment in the Forest-Savanna Transitional Zone of Ghana: The Influence of Religion
	Paul Sarfo-Mensah; William Oduro
发表日期	2010
出处	Economy and Society
出版年	2010
语种	英语
摘要	The potential of traditional natural resources management for biodiversity conservation and the improvement of sustainable rural livelihoods is no longer in doubt. In sub-Saharan Africa, extensive habitat destruction, degradation, and severe depletion of wildlife, which have seriously reduced biodiversity and undermined the livelihoods of many people in rural communities, have been attributed mainly to the erosion of traditional strategies for natural resources management. In Ghana, recent studies point to an increasing disregard for traditional rules and regulations, beliefs and practices that are associated with natural resources management. Traditional natural resources management in many typically indigenous communities in Ghana derives from changes in the perceptions and attitudes of local people towards tumi, the traditional belief in super natural power suffused in nature by Onyame, the Supreme Creator Deity. However, this is closely entwined with ecological, demographic and economic factors. Whilst these factors have driven the need to over-exploit natural resources, a situation which threatens the sustainability of community forests including sacred groves, religion has been used to justify such actions. This paper explores changes in tumi and the sustainability of sacred groves in the forest-savanna transitional zone in Ghana. It would confirm that changes in traditional animist beliefs, such as tumi, which informs the worldview of local people and underlies traditional natural resources management, is mainly due to the advances made by Christianity and Islam.
特色分类	Z1
关键词	Tumi Sacred Groves Forest-Savanna Transition Sustainability Traditional Christianity Islam
URL	https://www.feem.it/en/publications/feem-working-papers-note-di-lavoro-series/changes-in-beliefs-and-perceptions-about-the-natural-environment-in-the-forest-savanna-transitional-zone-of-ghana-the-influence-of-religion/
来源智库	Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (Italy)
资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/117800
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Paul Sarfo-Mensah,William Oduro. Changes in Beliefs and Perceptions about the Natural Environment in the Forest-Savanna Transitional Zone of Ghana: The Influence of Religion. 2010.

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