Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: Towards sustainable forest management in Ghana -- Threats to protected forest areas: a case study of illegal farming in South- Western Ghana -- A Conceptual framework of plantation development -- Growth and management of teak -- Bush meat crisis and wildlife conservation -- Hunting and trading bush meat in Northern Ghana -- Wildlife conservation and sustainable development in rural communities in Ghana: the case of giant African snails in the Bia Biosphere Reserve -- Community- based water resources management: a case study of Rural fisheries in Ghana -- Community involvement in wildlife conservation in northern Ghana -- Community- based conservation in Ghana --Economics of national resource management -- Natural resource valuation and analysis -- Estimating the economic value of recreation -- Analyses of the causes of deforestation in Ghana: An Econometric approach -- Meeting socioeconomic objectives in Ghana's Sardinella fishery -- Ghana's trade in forest products: Analyses of export demand and its policy implications.