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Ebenezer Owusu-Sekyere1 \* and Samuel Twumasi Amoah2

1 Department of Development Studies, University for Development Studies, Ghana

2 Department of Environment and Resource Studies, University for Development Studies, Ghana

\*Address all correspondence to: osekyere@uds.edu.gh

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