A missed opportunity? Unravelling the marketing potentials of tourism in Ghana through GIS

F Eshun, AB Owusu, G Owusu… - … Journal of Leisure …, 2015 - inderscienceonline.com The marketing and promotion of tourist sites through modern technologies such as geographic information system (GIS) and dynamic web technologies are slow in developing countries. This paper explores the potential of GIS in marketing tourism and examines ...

Farmers coping with the threat of desertification: A case study of the Upper East Region, Ghana

AB Owusu Wudpecker Journal of Agricultural …, 2012 - wudpeckerresearchjournals.org Desertification poses a serious threat to agriculture and the entire livelihood system of the Upper East Region, Ghana. Attempts at combating the threat of desertification in the regionhave little success story to tell posterity. Questions arising were thus stated; what is the ...

Analysis of the Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Street Hawking: A Case Study of the Accra Metropolitan Area

A Owusu Barimah, S Abrokwah… - Journal of Geography …, 2013 - works.bepress.com Abstract To the street hawker, it is a means of making a living but to the managers of the metropolis, street hawking is a menace. These differences in perception have led to a game plan tied to spatio-temporal diurnal traffic regimes. While the city authorities plan may be ..

Land Use and Landscape Structural Changes in the Ecoregions of Ghana

KO Asubonteng, EM Attua, AO Barimah - Journal of Disaster …, 2014 - researchgate.net ... Effah Kwabena Antwi ∗1, John Boakye-Danquah ∗2, Stephen Boahen Asabere ∗3, Gerald AB Yiran ∗4, Seyram Kofi Loh ∗4, Kwabena Gyekye Awere ∗4, Felix K. Abagale ∗5, Kwabena Owusu Asubonteng ∗6, Emmanuel Morgan Attua ∗7, and Alex Barimah Owusu ∗7 ...

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 ...

Detecting and Quantifying Desertification in the Upper East Region of Ghana using Multi-spatial and Multi-Temporal Normalized Difference Vegetation Index

AB Owusu - Journal of Environment and Earth Science, 2013 - iiste.org Abstract The need for process and indicator-based approach for assessing desertification is paramount to the drive to combat desertification in sub-Sahara Africa. It is in line with this that this study sought an approach based on early indicator, which can be measured in 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 ...

Developing a Community-Based Resilience Assessment Model with reference to Northern Ghana

…, 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 ...