This article addressed historical aspects of the political economy involving sustained forest ecology in Sierra Leone as a whole, with emphasis on the Freetown Peninsula and its surrounding communities. Attention is paid to cultural, social and economic aspects involving forest livelihoods of...

Goderich is a community that lies within strategic position in the Western Area Peninsula Forest [WAPFoR]. It has a fast growing population, fuelled by a regeneration of new building construction projects but at a cost to the depletion of forest reserve and ultimately, mobility/extinction of...

This article has taken a step towards providing a critical discourse approach on the future of sustainable growth for HETIs in Sierra Leone. The system, as it is at the moment, needs a complete review and overhaul in order to move forward in competing with HETIs on a global scale. The government...

This article has provided a non-empirical approach in addressing the potential for sustainable research at all levels in Sierra Leone. It is an indisputable fact that remnants of the civil crisis and more lately, the Ebola crisis have contributed to the country's under-developed research...

Sustainable development concept has been associated with many things, as in this situation with “Payment for Environmental Services [PES]”; a modern invention craving attention across the world, and more so for the benefit of those in developing nations around Asia, Latin America and Africa....

The thought about taking an ethical view-point to this research has emanated from the researcher's journey in preparing for a baseline survey of residents in Goderich using the Community-Based Research Participation (CBRP) approach to investigating concerns pertaining to sustainable livelihood...