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Private lands conservation in law and culture

Many ecological conservation goals require the use of legal means to channel land development and otherwise curtail unsound uses of privately owned lands.

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Population, Land, Food: Malthus and Africa

A study of how Malthus relates to understanding, and resolving, the food-land-population predicaments of sub-Saharan Africa.

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Resisting wetland gentrification in African cities

Asante, L. A., Bonsu, B. A., & Helbrecht, I. (2025). Resisting wetland gentrification in African cities. Nature Cities, 2(4), 268–270. h...

Lewis Abedi Asante Lewis Abedi Asante

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Managing cities and resolving conflicts: Local people’s attitudes towards urban planning in Kumasi, Ghana

Cobbinah, Patrick B. 2017. Managing cities and resolving conflicts: Local people’s attitudes towards urban planning in Kumasi, Ghana. Land U...

Patrick Cobbinah Patrick Cobbinah
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