Urban forest and sustainability : the historical perspective of Limbe in the southwest region of Cameroon

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dc.contributor.author Lekah, Atebeh Uta-Rein
dc.contributor.author Chirwa, Paxie W.
dc.contributor.author Mala, William Armand
dc.date.accessioned 2025-01-17T08:10:11Z
dc.date.available 2025-01-17T08:10:11Z
dc.date.issued 2024
dc.description.abstract Projected rapid urbanisation and climate change will increase the risk of natural disasters in fragile coastal African cities. Strategically planning and managing the urban forest can help to build resilience. This study aimed to document urban forest development and sustainability in Cameroon using the city of Limbe as a baseline through the classification of urban forest elements; description of their developmental history and assessment of the level of sustainability to inform strategic planning. Data was collected using a forest ethnology approach. Two groups of stakeholders’ representatives of public institutions (Group 1), Non-Governmental Organisations and educated indigenes (Group 2) provided oral histories of tree planting. Face to face interviews with 15 stakeholders were conducted guided by semi-structured questionnaires. From these results, there are four types of urban forest. Limbe Botanical Garden (LBG) developed during the colonial era was the most prominent. Municipal authorities by law should create different types of urban forest but their actions have been limited to Roadside Trees (RT) planting. The absence of budget, policy and inventory was responsible for the low level of urban forest sustainability. Increasing awareness of the effectiveness of urban forest nature-based solutions in tackling deadly landslides and floods in Limbe can promote urban forest sustainability. en_US
dc.description.department Plant and Soil Sciences en_US
dc.description.sdg SDG-11:Sustainable cities and communities en_US
dc.description.sdg SDG-13:Climate action en_US
dc.description.uri https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/tarb20 en_US
dc.identifier.citation Atebeh Uta-Rein Lekah, Paxie Wanangwa Chirwa & William Armand Mala (14 Nov 2024): Urban forest and sustainability: the historical perspective of Limbe in the Southwest Region of Cameroon, Arboricultural Journal, DOI: 10.1080/03071375.2024.2426407. en_US
dc.identifier.issn 0307-1375 (print)
dc.identifier.issn 2168-1074 (online)
dc.identifier.other 10.1080/03071375.2024.2426407
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2263/100131
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Taylor and Francis en_US
dc.rights © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). en_US
dc.subject Urban forest en_US
dc.subject Colonial history en_US
dc.subject Resource management en_US
dc.subject Sustainability en_US
dc.subject Cameroon en_US
dc.subject SDG-11: Sustainable cities and communities en_US
dc.subject SDG-13: Climate action en_US
dc.title Urban forest and sustainability : the historical perspective of Limbe in the southwest region of Cameroon en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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