Abstract City governance is vital for sustainable development goals and resource management allocation as well urban climate-related initiatives, it estimated that more people will reside in the areas further years. As migrate to cities, world steadily becomes urbanised. The population of cities accounts 55% total population, generate 85% global gross domestic product emit 75% greenhouse gas em...

1. Humans as Parts of Forest and Grassland Ecosystems 1.1 Human Subsistence in Forests and Grasslands Based on Gathering and Hunting 1.2 Transition of Natural Communities into Seminatural Communities 2. The Development of Agroecosystems—Agroforestry was the Origin 2.1. The Transition from Food Collection to Food Production 2.2. Agroforestry—What Does it Mean and How Does it Work? 2.3. Nutrient ...

In 1995, the Philippines officially adopted Community-Based Forest Management (CBFM) as its strategy for sustainable forest management in recognition of the urgent need to put “social fences” in open access forests and forest lands. CBFM was conceptualized to partly respond to the issue of the state as being the biggest “absentee landlord” by recognizing de-facto resource management of communit...

The central intent of this essay is based on the author's master's thesis named 'Creating alternative community futures: A community futures tragedy.' This thesis explored the question "Can local governments empower their communities with the opportunity and capacity to create alternative futures?" Local governments in their role of managing issues and planning for the future have more recently...

An Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is a process by which the benefits of development are weighed against its environmental costs. Since indigenous communities are the principal environmental stewards of their land, it is imperative that they are consulted and play an active part in the EIA process. Their input can help to correct a scientific analysis that “misrepresents the local context...

Wastewater collection and treatment is quite important for sustainable management. It would be uneconomical and impractical to provide sewer systems and separate wastewater treatment plants (WWTP) for small communities. The decision process in wastewater planning is rather important in terms of comparing the alternatives considered. The two important points in the management of wastewater at ru...

The topic of knowledge management has received considerable attention in research as well as practice. However, the success of knowledge management systems remains elusive. This chapter provides a framework, which suggests that knowledge management success can be achieved by designing sustainable communities of practice. Communities of practice have proven to have significant economic and pract...

There is a growing recognition that the present demographic patterns in sub-Saharan Africa, including Ghana, do not augur well for the achievement of sustainable development. Ghana is characterized by a youthful population, rapid population growth, uneven population distribution, high fertility, and rural-urban migration which has brought human numbers into collision with resources to sustain ...