Planning and climate change in African cities: Informal urbanization and 'Just'Urban transformations

PB Cobbinah, BM Finn - Journal of planning literature, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
The proliferation of informal settlements and growing risks of climate change across African
cities pose core questions to urban planning theory and practice. Where do informal …

[HTML][HTML] Beyond costs: How urban form could limit the uptake of residential solar PV systems in low-income neighborhoods in Ghana

MM Akrofi, M Okitasari - Energy for Sustainable Development, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper examines the relationship between urban form, residential rooftop solar PV
potential, and levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) in high-income, middle-class, and low …

Interactive effects of institutional, economic, social and environmental barriers on sustainable housing in a developing country

MA Adabre, APC Chan, A Darko - Building and environment, 2022 - Elsevier
This study investigates the causal relationships among 'institutional','economic','social'and
'environmental'sustainability barriers in addition to assessing their effects on sustainable …

Evaluation of symmetries and asymmetries on barriers to sustainable housing in developing countries

MA Adabre, APC Chan, DJ Edwards… - Journal of Building …, 2022 - Elsevier
For effective policy development and implementation for sustainable housing, the
perspectives of professionals (ie, suppliers of housing facilities and services) and …

Housing transformation, rent gap and gentrification in Ghana's traditional houses: Insight from compound houses in Bantama, Kumasi

LA Asante, RJ Ehwi - The Planetary Gentrification Reader, 2022 - taylorfrancis.com
Housing is one of the most basic human needs and can have a profound impact on the
happiness, lifestyle, self-esteem, and productivity of an individual. The compound house is …

Fragile and compromised housing: Implications of land conflicts on housing development in peri-urban Accra, Ghana

DM Asafo - Housing Studies, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Existing housing literature in the Global south suggests housing development processes are
linear and do not appear to incorporate unexpected events such as land conflicts, which …

[HTML][HTML] Are households willing to adopt solar home systems also likely to use electricity more efficiently? Empirical insights from Accra, Ghana

MM Akrofi, M Okitasari, H Qudrat-Ullah - Energy Reports, 2023 - Elsevier
The diffusion of renewable energy technology, such as solar home systems (SHS), has great
potential to reduce GHG emissions. However, households' energy efficiency (EE) and …

Housing Informality in the Global South: Insights from a Policy Comparison between Accra and Buenos Aires

HC Wang, AM Bazán - International Journal of Urban and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Informal settlement growth in various countries has led to distinctive actions that enhance
low‐income populations' accessibility to adequate, safe and affordable housing and basic …

'Landguardism'in Ghana: Examining public perceptions about the driving factors

RJ Ehwi, DA Mawuli - Land use policy, 2021 - Elsevier
Landguardism has become a bane in Ghana's urban land markets. Previous studies have
qualitatively explored the drivers of this phenomenon from the perspectives of both state …

Secondary cities at the residential housing frontier: Examining the determinants of private renters' residential satisfaction in Ghana

SL Mensah, SA Okyere, LK Frimpong, AB Asiedu… - Habitat International, 2025 - Elsevier
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 …