Abstract
Ghana has adequate environmental resources to contribute significantly to sustainable development and attainment of millennium development goals (MDGs) and new partnership for African development.
However the environment is continually being impoverished with the consequence that many people are vulnerable and the inability to cope with the situation has reached an unprecedented dimension thus making people poorer. Global environmental problems are attributable to many factors chief of which are population growth, technological deficiencies and HIV Aids.
The research looked at the causes of vulnerability, the degree of resilience, and the adaptability of biodiversity. Critical institutions such as Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Ghana, Ministry of Environment Science and Technology (MEST), local government and the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) were covered.
The coping mechanism remain very low in Ghana to be able to arrest environmental problem is a big challenge. However intensive capacity building and rigorous education remains a better option in dealing with vulnerability, resilience and adaptability, etc of the environment and its resources. The research identified efficient and effective measures, approaches and mechanisms of institutional practices and influences that would improve quality, ensure security of the environment and its resources and equity for policy.
In view of complexities of environmental issues, wider experience should be shared globally to tap richer experience from far and wide since they are dynamic and cross-cutting issues that cannot be handled by individual countries.
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