Accra's Poverty Trap: Analysing Water Provision in Urban Ghana

EF Amankwaa, AB Owusu, G Owusu… - Journal of Social …, 2014 - researchgate.net Abstract The urban landscape of Ghana, like most developing countries, is characterised by a mix of areas without water supply, and those with erratic and unreliable supply. These inadequacies are felt disproportionally in low-income communities, where their needs are ...

Community vulnerability assessment index for flood prone savannah agro-ecological zone: A case study of Wa West District, Ghana

EK Antwi, J Boakye-Danquah, AB Owusu… - Weather and Climate …, 2015 - Elsevier Abstract The savannah regions of Northern Ghana are characterized by smallholder farming systems and high levels of poverty. Over the past two decades, communities in the regions have become more prone to climate and human-induced disasters in the form of annual ...

Amita Johar, SS Jain and PK Garg

RJ Ajwaliya, PM Udani, K Mehmood, A Patel, J Joy… - researchgate.net... 16. Site suitability analysis for a central wastewater treatment plant in Accra metropolitan areausing 191 geographic information system Alex Barimah Owusu and Paulina Ansaa Asante 17.Forest fire risk and degradation assessment using remote sensing and GIS 198 ...

Assessment of the Status of Mangrove Vegetation and their Degradation in Rufiji Delta in Tanzania

... DR. EMMANUEL MORGAN ATTUA (PRINCIPAL SUPERVISOR) SIGNATURE: ………… DATE: ………… DR. ALEX BARIMAH OWUSU (CO-SUPERVISOR) University of Ghana http://ugspace.ug.edu.gh Page 3. iii DEDICATION ...

Measuring Desertification in continuum: Normalized Difference Vegetation Index-based Study in the Upper East Region, Ghana

AB Owusu - Civil and Environmental Research, 2013 - iiste.org Abstract This paper builds on current research in desertification and approaches design to assist in the accurate measurement of desertification in both spatial (pixel level) and temporal scales taking cue from two earlier studies by Lampray in 1975 and Prince in ...

Problems in the Design and Implementation of a GIS for Urban Green Development in Ghana

AB Owusu - 2005 - etd.ohiolink.edu 2.1: Sustainable Development and Urban Environment Sustainable Development (SD) is a term that has been overused in recent times (Kamete 2002). This, perhaps, is due to the fact that “there is much confusion on the meaning of the concept”(Atkinson 1999). As a ...

Efforts at evicting street hawkers from the streets of Accra: the good and the bad

AB Owusu, S Abrokwah - Developing Country Studies, 2014 - iiste.org Abstract By operating in public spaces not authorized for trading activities, street hawkers offer various products for sale in order to eke out a living. However, the activity of street hawking finds itself at the wrong side of the laws governing the use of city-space. Several ...

…, YA Boafo, Y Kusakari, GAB Yiran, AB Owusu… - IDRiM Journal, 2014 - idrim.net Abstract Faced with adversarial climatic and physical conditions and an inept socioeconomic development priorities, Northern Ghana remains one of the regions that are most vulnerable to climate-related shocks and disturbances in semi-arid Africa. Becaused ...