@phdthesis{Cheo2011, author = {Cheo, Victor Ngu}, title = {Policy and environmental communication in mitigation of non-sustainable forest exploitation in Cameroon: an impact assessment of Anglophone Cameroon}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:co1-opus-20769}, school = {BTU Cottbus - Senftenberg}, year = {2011}, abstract = {The economic crises of the mid 1980s and 1990s due to a fall in economic productivity inflicted serious negative consequences on Cameroon's forest ecosystems and forest resources which became the target of intense exploitation for multiple purposes. A forest policy reform at the behest of the World Bank was intended to regulate forest exploitation in a sustainable way. More than a decade since the inception of this policy, this study, through a three-tier methodological approach of survey, content analysis and observation, seeks to assess policy impacts per se, as well as the role of environmental communication in mitigating non-sustainable forest exploitation in Anglophone Cameroon. The study also investigates a valid and reliable option for the sustainable management of forest resources, by comparing and contrasting the two operational forest management paradigms. The outcome of the investigation reveals that both policy and environmental communication have a more positive impact in the community forest area than in the state-managed forest area, implying that the former is a better forest management option than the latter. However, forest sustainability is still at stake in both areas, due, generally, to bad forest governance such as corruption, minimal public participation, lack of transparency and accountability, as well as the ubiquitous presence of poverty, unemployment and inadequate public access to socio-economic development indicators. To this end, the study proffers some robust recommendations that if implemented will greatly enhance the badly needed forest sustainability.}, subject = {Kamerun; Wald{\"o}kosystem; Nachhaltigkeit; Umwelterziehung; Umweltpolitik; Umweltkommunikation; Forstwirtschaft; Kamerun; Policy; Environmental Communication; Forestry; Cameroon}, language = {en} }