BIOGEOGRAPHY, ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORYAND SUSTAINABILITY IN COASTAL GHANA -- BIOGEOGRAPHY, ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORYAND SUSTAINABILITY IN COASTAL GHANA -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE -- LIST OF FIGURES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- THE AFRICAN SAVANNA: A DEBATED CONTEXT -- 1.1. DEVELOPMENT AND THE ENVIRONMENTIN RURAL AFRICA -- 1.2. TREES, GRASS, DESERT AND WILDLIFE: THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF THE SAVANNA -- 1.3. A SOCIO-ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY OF GHANA -- 1.4. UNANSWERED QUESTIONS AND NARRATIVES -- THE COASTAL SAVANNA AND TUBA-APLAKU PLAINS -- 2.1. A UNIQUE ECOSYSTEM? -- 2.2. THE CASE FOR ANTHROPOGENICALLY DETERMINED CHANGE -- 2.3. QUESTIONS FOR THE DOMINANT NARRATIVEAND GAPS IN EXISTING KNOWLEDGE -- 2.4. THE WAY FORWARD AND THE SELECTIONOF A CASE STUDY -- DEFORESTATION AND MULTIDIRECTIONALVEGETATION CHANGE IN THE TUBA-APLAKU PLAINS -- 3.1. LINEAR DEFORESTATION IN THE SAVANNA -- 3.2. MULTIDIRECTIONAL VEGETATION CHANGEAND MAMMAL SPECIES CHANGE -- 3.3. THE ROLE OF INTEGRATED RESEARCH -- 3.4. THE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE -- 3.5. CHALLENGES TO THE DOMINANT NARRATIVE -- CLIMATE CHANGE: QUESTIONS OF SIGNIFICANCE -- 4.1. WHY IS THE COASTAL SAVANNA THE DRIEST AREA OF GHANA? -- 4.2. RECORDED EVIDENCE -- 4.3. PEOPLE AND RAIN -- 4.4. ACTOR REACTIONS TO PERCEPTIONSOF CLIMATE CHANGE -- 4.5. A WAY FORWARD? -- ACTORS, STRUCTURES AND THE STRUCTURATION OF SOCIO-ENVIRONMENTAL RELATIONS -- 5.1. THE STRUCTURATION OF PEOPLEAND THEIR ENVIRONMENT -- The Environment as a Structure -- Values -- Organisation -- Knowledge -- Technology -- 5.2. THE LOCAL LIFE SPACE AND "DEVELOPMENT": KOKROBITE -- 5.3. THE LOCAL LIFE SPACE AND "DEVELOPMENT": BORTIANOR -- 5.4. THE LOCAL LIFE SPACE AND "DEVELOPMENT": TUBA -- 5.5. ASSESSMENT OF SOCIAL RELATIONS -- SOLUTIONS, PROSPECTS AND NEW DIRECTIONS -- 6.1. SOME CONCLUDING WORDS -- 6.2. AN ASSESSMENT OF THE ISSUES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.