Environmental Issues and Ecology

This category's books

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  Climate Change and the Management of Natural Systems in Cameroon

  2011, author(s)-editor(s) Emmanuel Ndenecho Neba
  This book emphasises that planning is essential, as the conservation approaches of the past may not work in an ever-changing warmer environment. It appraises current management strategies, assesses the biological and physical effects of climate change on natural systems in Cameroon and designs a planning and management framework for each natural system within the context of global warming. Climate change poses a complex bewildering array of problems for ecosystems. The key question is, what (...)
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  Local Livelihoods and Protected Area Management: Biodiversity Conservation Problems in Cameroon

  2011, author(s)-editor(s) Emmanuel Ndenecho Neba
  Cameroon’s tropical forest is home to numerous plants and animals. It is also inhabited by Baka pygmies who are foragers and Bantu farmers. These communities have developed forest–dependent livelihoods, cultures and religions. Destruction of the forest by commercial and state interests, subsistence agriculture and the harvesting of products has necessitated a considerable upsurge in environmental protection projects to conserve and rehabilitate ecosystems, forests, soils and water resources. (...)
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  Ethnobotanic Resources of Tropical Montane Forests: Indigenous Uses of Plants in the Cameroon Highland Ecoregion

  2011, author(s)-editor(s) Emmanuel Ndenecho Neba
  Mountain forests provide important ecological services, and essential products. This book focuses on the importance of mountain forests in Cameroon for the local people who depend most directly on them, and have often developed a wealth of indigenous knowledge on plants and sophisticated institutions for managing limited plant and animal resources. Such knowledge and institutions have often been threatened, or even destroyed, by centralization and globalization; yet there is increasing (...)
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  Environmental Problems in the Bakossi Landscape

  2011, author(s)-editor(s) Ekpe Inyang
  A Handbook for Environmental Educators Written in simple and straightforward language, Environmental Problems in the Bakossi Landscape is a practical handbook of knowledge and skills needed to be more efficient in sensitising and taking practical steps to address environmental problems. Although the handbook focuses on the seven environmental problems of the Bakossi Landscape, its depth and breadth of analysis and the deliberate attempt at not making it too site-specific in the discussion (...)
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  Ecology and Natural Resource Development in the Western Highlands of Cameroon

  2009, author(s)-editor(s) Cornelius Mbifung Lambi, Emmanuel Ndenecho Neba
  Issues in Natural Resource Management The densely populated Bamenda Highlands of Cameroon remains one of the regions with the greatest land degradation problems in the country. Factors responsible for this include climate change, the hilly nature or topographic layout of the land, and human interference through overgrazing, destructive agricultural practices and the impact of deforestation. This detailed study of resource management and its ecological challenges in the Bamenda Highlands, (...)