Unravelling the frontiers of urban growth: spatio-temporal dynamics of land-use change and urban expansion in greater Accra metropolitan area, Ghana

JEK Akubia, A Bruns - Land, 2019 - mdpi.com
This study analyzed and assessed spatio-temporal dynamics of land-use change (LUC) and
urban expansion (UE) within the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (GAMA) of Ghana. This …

[HTML][HTML] The politics of tied aid: Technology transfer and the maintenance and repair of water infrastructure

L Jambadu, J Monstadt - World Development, 2024 - Elsevier
In many African countries, international donor funding schemes contribute significantly to
financing water infrastructures, especially for constructing new networks and water plants …

[HTML][HTML] Comparative analysis of local adaptation processes in the future across peri-urban India to support transformations to sustainability

SL Gomes, LM Hermans, S Chakraborty, S Luft… - Global Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Peri-urban transformations in emerging economies like India demand scientific attention
given their impact on global environmental change processes. Some studies examine past …

Conflicts, cooperation and experimentation: Analysing the politics of urban water through Accra's heterogeneous water supply infrastructure

R Alba, M Kooy, A Bruns - Environment and Planning E …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
In this paper, we analyse the heterogeneity of water supply infrastructure in Accra, Ghana, to
understand the politics of water in cities where infrastructural diversity has always been the …

A sand-security nexus: Insights from peri-urban Accra, Ghana

KY Asare, K Dawson, KS Hemmler - The Extractive Industries and Society, 2023 - Elsevier
An expanding sphere of research engaging with the diverse geographies of sand, points to
connections between sand extraction and the multiple forms of livelihood, food, health and …

Addressing water scarcity in developing country contexts: a socio-cultural approach

R Emile, JR Clammer, P Jayaswal… - Humanities and Social …, 2022 - nature.com
Current conceptualizations of and approaches to scarcity tend to be economic-focused and
institution driven with understated and underemphasized sociocultural dimensions. We …

Towards situated analyses of uneven peri‐urbanisation: An (Urban) Political Ecology perspective

LE Bartels, A Bruns, D Simon - Antipode, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In this article we develop a novel analytical framework for situated studies of uneven peri‐
urbanisation that resist further dividing Marxist and Situated (Urban) Political Ecology. We …

Geologising urban political ecology (UPE): the urbanisation of sand in Accra, Ghana

K Dawson - Antipode, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This paper makes a call for an urban political ecology (UPE) which engages more
extensively with Earth's geological formations. As a material at the centre of global …

Gated communities and land administration challenges in Ghana: reappraising the reasons why people move into gated communities

RJ Ehwi, N Morrison, P Tyler - Housing Studies, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Gated communities are proliferating in most developing countries. Scholars, however,
continue to rely on mainstream demand-based arguments mostly framed in developed …

Spatial heterogeneity in drinking water sources in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (GAMA), Ghana

JD Tetteh, MR Templeton, A Cavanaugh… - Population and …, 2022 - Springer
Universal access to safe drinking water is essential to population health and well-being, as
recognized in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). To develop targeted policies …