The authors analyzed census data to examine the spatial heterogeneity in drinking water sources and neighborhood income in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (GAMA), the largest urban agglomeration in Ghana using the Shannon Entropy Index and the Index of Concentration at the Extremes at the enumeration area level.
With urbanization posing serious livelihood challenges to households living in the peri-urban areas, this study seeks to examine the livelihood options/strategies available to peri-urban dwellers in the Wa Municipality who depend on agriculture for their livelihood using concurrent embedded mixed methods research design to study 394 randomly selected residents in four (4) of ten (10) peri-urban communities.
The article draws on fieldwork data collected between 2005 and 2013 from the Juaboso District, located in the heart of Ghana’s current cocoa frontier in the Western Region, this article aims to examine how immigration and frontier dynamics in the region are contributing to livelihood transitions and small town development, and how this process is gradually becoming delinked from the production of cocoa.
The proposed research was designed to test the hypothesis that health levels in urban places are importantly influenced by the local neighbourhood environment, including the nature of the built environment (buildings and infrastructure), the socio-economic environment (including average levels of income and education as well as the availability and judicious use of resources), and the location of a neighbourhood within the broader urban environment (including its proximity to health clinics and hospitals).
This article analyses land use and vegetation change in the savanna contexts of central Zimbabwe and coastal Ghana. The results of analyses based on field surveys, time series aerial photographs/satellite images and GIS methods challenge current assumptions of linear vegetation change under social dynamics in these two contexts. The evidence from these areas rather points to multi-directional and patch dynamic change. It is thus concluded that more detailed and broadly based studies are necessary to enable more insightful and effective management of land use issues.
Using data from a 2001 household survey of 504 households in 24 rural localities in two ecologically, climatologically, and culturally different regions of Ghana, viz, the dry and derived savannahs, the paper examines the practice of agricultural extensification and intensification.
The data presented in this paper suggest that structural agro-ecological differences between Northern Ghana and Southern Ghana are an important incentive for people to move rather than degradation.
The paper offers a policy-oriented discussion of the relationship between population, environment and economic development. Our particular focus is on the relationship between urbanization and environmental change. Their impact is often represented as strongly negative. We examine the relationship between nutrient levels in coastal lagoons, examining the degree to which these impacts are linked to population density in the watershed.
