Managing The Environmental Crisis

Download or read book Managing the Environmental Crisis in Ghana written by Kwasi Nyamekye and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-11-19 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Due to the strong inroads that Western scientism and Western Christianity have made in Africa as a result of colonialism, post-colonial African governments have tended to rely solely on Western scientific conservation epistemologies and models to the neglect of those of the Indigenous African peoples in addressing their environmental problems. However, there is enough evidence that neither modern (scientific) nor indigenous epistemologies and modes of addressing current ecological problems ar...