Policies and labels for negotiating rights protection for the environmentally displaced in Ghana: the Dagara farmer in perspective
| Autor: | Roger Zetter, Augustine Yelfaanibe |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Government
Economic growth Displaced person media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Geography Planning and Development Perspective (graphical) 0211 other engineering and technologies 0507 social and economic geography 021107 urban & regional planning Context (language use) 02 engineering and technology Focus group Negotiation Extant taxon Political science Preparedness 050703 geography Earth-Surface Processes media_common |
| Zdroj: | African Geographical Review. 37:83-97 |
| ISSN: | 2163-2642 1937-6812 |
| Popis: | This paper discusses the issue of rights within the context of contemporary policies and the extent to which they address the challenges confronting environmentally displaced people in Ghana. It also explores the role of labels in the drive toward affording appropriate rights protection for the environmentally displaced. The discussions are an offshoot from two extant studies conducted through interviews and focus group sessions. The objective of the first study was to assess the level of preparedness of government to offer appropriate rights protection to environmentally displaced persons. The second study investigated how migrants, especially those affected by changing environmental condition are able to gain access and negotiate their rights in all the different places they go to. From the studies, it was found that there are no clear policies in Ghana meant to afford rights protection to environmentally displaced people and that the rights of such migrants keep shifting with both time and loca... |
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