Africa, tropical timber, turfs, and trade : geographic perspectives on Ghana's timber industry and development / J. Henry Owusu.

Bibliogr.: pages 223-234.-Met index.

Africa, turfs and trade : theoretical and historical framework -- Turf establishment and the development process : structural foundations of Ghana's timber industry -- Independence, instability and contested turfs : structural changes in the timber industry -- Turf reclamation strategies : neo-liberalism and the timber industry -- Turf recapture and consolidation for the timber trade : Ghana's economic recovery program -- Structural adjustment, the timber trade and turf degradation : political convenience and desperate deforestation -- Turf dynamics and conflicts, the timber trade and spatial integration -- Debt, dependence, turf control and Ghana's economy -- Conclusions and lessons for twenty-first century Africa.