Assessing CREMAs' Capacity to Govern Landscape Resources in the Western Wildlife Corridor of Northern Ghana.
Ghana initiated community resource management areas (CREMAs) as a community-based natural management approach to give local communities the right and power to manage natural resources within their territorial boundaries. The expectation is that communities and their environment would prosper through...
| Publicado en: | Environmental Management Vol. 75; no. 5; pp. 1055 - 1071 |
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| Formato: | Journal Article |
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Springer Nature
May2025
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