While most countries in Africa have revised the planning laws they inherited from their
colonial experience, research shows that the attitudes and practices of politicians and …

Abstract As Accra, Ghana's capital city, expands at an unprecedented rate, the fragmentation
and loss of natural and semi-natural ecosystems may be the greatest challenge to achieving …

The information deficit model (IDM) suggests that disseminating relevant information to the
public about an issue or concern can result in people changing their perception, beliefs and …

Building resilience through flooding risk adaptation, a long-term and anticipatory measure,
has become a crucial disaster risk reduction strategy against the backdrop of the changing …

Persisting housing challenges in Africa's cities are often theorized as driven by rapid
demographic expansion outstrip** housing supply or by the urbanization of poverty which …

Urban discourses in Africa have long followed the conventional pathological–indeed
Malthusian–view that the continent's urban problems are the result of overpopulation. This …

Behavioural economics has provided much source of inspiration for public policy in the
COVID-19 era. Such is evidently the state of discussion in Ghana, where Ghanaians' so …

Decades of political ambivalence, housing injustice, and a neoliberal housing sector aided
by the government's lax approach to housing provision have meant that, private rental …

This study presents fresh evidence from an informal settlement in Accra, Ghana, examining
how knowledge, understanding, experiences, and feelings about flood risk influence the …

The discourse on urban innovations is largely positioned in the Global North, often
conceived within the entrepreneurial and managerial forms of high-tech services and …