Global urban sprawl containment strategies and their implications for rapidly urbanising cities in Ghana

O Amponsah, DK Blija, RA Ayambire, SA Takyi… - Land Use Policy, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Cities in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) have so far failed to sustainably address urban
sprawl and its ramifications. Meanwhile, the projected increase in the urban population in …

[HTML][HTML] Transforming cities for sustainability: A health perspective

M Crane, S Lloyd, A Haines, D Ding… - Environment …, 2021 - Elsevier
Transformational change is urgently needed to address planetary health challenges in
cities. Through an interdisciplinary overview of the literature, we consider how to frame and …

Coupling coordination evaluation and sustainable development pattern of geo-ecological environment and urbanization in Chongqing municipality, China

C Yang, W Zeng, X Yang - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2020 - Elsevier
Geo-ecological environment has extremely complex relations with urbanization, and thus
summarizing the evolution trend, time rules and spatial differences from the aspect of time …

Urban development sustainability, industrial structure adjustment, and land use efficiency in China

Z Wang, H Fu, H Liu, C Liao - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2023 - Elsevier
It remains unclear on how industrial structure adjustment interacts with urban land use
efficiency and how urbanization affects their interaction, despite its significance for urban …

Urbanization-environment conundrum: an invitation to sustainable development in Saudi Arabian cities

AI Almulhim, PB Cobbinah - International Journal of Sustainable …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
As rapid urbanization becomes a key topic within urban studies and planning particularly in
the Global South, it needs to be considered what radical implications to urban environment …

Urban expansion and form changes across African cities with a global outlook: Spatiotemporal analysis of urban land densities

G Xu, T Dong, PB Cobbinah, L Jiao, NS Sumari… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2019 - Elsevier
Africa has been experiencing rapid urbanization, yet limited studies have systematically
investigated urban growth dynamics across African cities. Using 25 cities as cases, we …

Population predictions for the world's largest cities in the 21st century

D Hoornweg, K Pope - Environment and urbanization, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
We project populations to 2100 for the world's larger cities. Three socioeconomic scenarios
with various levels of sustainability and global cooperation are evaluated, and individual …

Urban sprawl and green space depletion: Implications for flood incidence in Kumasi, Ghana

K Abass, D Buor, K Afriyie, G Dumedah… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Urban area expansion has often been cited as a flood inducing factor globally. However,
there is a dearth of research on how the phenomenon influences the occurrence of floods in …

Survey of magnetic resonance imaging availability in West Africa

GI Ogbole, AO Adeyomoye, A Badu-Peprah… - Pan African Medical …, 2018 - ajol.info
Introduction: The availability and utilization of MRI units across sub-Saharan Africa countries
remain poor and its distribution is largely unknown. A cross-sectional survey was conducted …

Understanding the relation between urbanization and the eco-environment in China's Yangtze River Delta using an improved EKC model and coupling analysis

Y Zhao, S Wang, C Zhou - Science of the Total Environment, 2016 - Elsevier
Better understanding the relationship between urbanization (U) and the eco-environment (E)
is necessary to coordinate the development of them. Using a comprehensive index system …