Ecosystem health and sustainable livelihoods : exploring the prospects in community - based resource management in the East Mamprusi District, Ghana

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dc.contributor.authorDasori, W.P.
dc.date.accessioned2007-11-13T04:02:42Z
dc.date.available2003-02-12en
dc.date.available2007-11-13T04:02:42Z
dc.date.issued2002
dc.description.abstractInstitutional processes, social and economic trends play a role in defining the outcomes of people's interaction with and use of their ecosystems. The resource use decisions of households influence the livelihood and health dimensions of ecological change. This paper uses the ecosystems approach to human health to study the relationship between ecosystem and human health by examining how agro-ecosystem based resource use systems influence community environmental change and vulnerability to health and livelihood problems. It identifies community assets and activities and examines how they both affect human and ecological health and productivity and community sustainability. Decline in quality and abundance of assets such as livestock, arable land and economic trees that have been a source of wealth and for meeting expenditures such as medical expenses, food and school fees is attributed to the transformation of community resource tenures and polices, increasing incidence of animal mortality resulting from chemicals used in farms and the decline in grazing land, while household wastewater is a source of breeding grounds for mosquitoes that transmit malaria. Agro-ecosystem based livelihood activities have introduced environmental changes that have contributed to decline in food production and poor health resulting from poor nutrition. It is argued that improvements in health (both human and ecosystem) and the sustainability of livelihoods have to focus on the creation of livelihood and environmental opportunities which enable communities to adapt to weather risk and expand their livelihoods and prosperity beyond simple dependence on the shrinking natural resource base.en
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dc.format.extent1 digital file (33 p.)en
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10625/26771
dc.language.isoen
dc.subjectENVIRONMENTAL HEALTHen
dc.subjectECOSYSTEMSen
dc.subjectENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENTen
dc.subjectCOMMUNITIESen
dc.subjectRESOURCES MANAGEMENTen
dc.subjectSUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENTen
dc.subjectGHANAen
dc.subjectCOMMUNITY PARTICIPATIONen
dc.titleEcosystem health and sustainable livelihoods : exploring the prospects in community - based resource management in the East Mamprusi District, Ghanaen
dc.title.alternativeEcosystem approaches to human health training award / Bourse de formation écosystèmes et santé humaineen
dc.typeWorking Paperen
idrc.dspace.accessIDRC Onlyen
idrc.project.componentnumber100770006
idrc.project.number100770
idrc.project.titleEcosystem Approaches to Human Health Training Awards - Phase IIen
idrc.rims.adhocgroupIDRC SUPPORTEDen

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