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Strengthening Traditional Environmental Knowledge for the Integration of Social and Ecological Justice

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This chapter considers the conservation aspects of increasing deforestation for charcoal production in Ghana, and the way in which Traditional Environmental Knowledge (TEK) relates to this. The previous chapter (Chap. 8 by Strang in this volume) discussed that implementing indigenous beliefs into constitutions is not enough to reach egalitarianism between humans and non-human beings, but that relationality must reach all domains of society. The focus of this chapter is on the role of existing TEK for the implementation of social and ecological justice in the local context of Dawadawa 2, Ghana.

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Thomasberger, A. (2020). Strengthening Traditional Environmental Knowledge for the Integration of Social and Ecological Justice. In: Kopnina, H., Washington, H. (eds) Conservation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13905-6_9

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