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Africa, Tropical Timber, Turfs and Trade
Author | : John Henry Owusu |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 283 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0739174010 |
This book examines development issues, particularly spatial integration, in Sub-Saharan Africa regarding its tropical timber trade, and the related formal-informal operational turf creation, control and dynamics. Focusing primarily on Ghana, Owusu examines the scramble to control the timber trade by various political and socio-economic interests, from the colonial to the neo-liberal era. In relation to this, Owusu documents the structural and organizational changes that have occurred in the region resulting from national and international development policies, such as modernization and neo-liberal structural adjustment on industrialization and development, and assesses the roles played by powerful international organizations such as The World Bank as agents of economic change. The discussion is couched in the critical but often unrecognized or neglected role the discipline of geography and its associated perspectives play in relation to examining and understanding the unequal relationship between the advanced and developing economies, and how that relationship affects development and trade behavior of developing economies. The core argument made regarding this relationship is tied to the structuralist perspective that Africa's persistent underdevelopment problem is rooted in the very structure of its political economy. Based on the discussion, Owusu identifies and distills lessons from Ghana's experience for Development policy and practice in Africa and comparable Developing countries in the 21st Century.
Preservation of timber in the tropics
Author | : G.W. Findlay |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2013-03-09 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 940172752X |
Much research has been done recently, and more is now in progress, to increase the effectiveness under tropical conditions of methods which have been developed in Europe for preserving timber. This book attempts to bring together the results of some of these studies. I have not attempted to cover the tropical zones of Central and South America as this would have extended the book beyond its limits. But I am grateful to the authors who have contributed chapters dealing with the different aspects and solutions of the problems of the tropical areas of the Old World. The International Research Group for Wood Preservation (The I.R.G.) at its annual meetings in different countries has provided a valuable forum for cooperation in this developing field. Anyone concerned with the subject would be well advised to study the publications issued by this group. Their office is at Drottning Kristinas vag 47C S - 11428 Stockholm, Sweden. Although timber is a renewable resource there is every reason why it should not be wasted through premature decay or the ravages of termites etc., when effective measures for its preservation are available and, if correctly applied, can greatly reduce the cost of maintaining timber structures.
Timber of West Africa
Author | : Timber Research and Development Association |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 102 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : |
Sessional Papers
Author | : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1002 |
Release | : 1909 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : |
Annual Report of the General Manager
Author | : South African Railways and Harbours |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 668 |
Release | : 1919 |
Genre | : Harbors |
ISBN | : |