Using a review of three relevant urban planning and climate change policies of Ghana, and interviews with six urban planning and climate-related agencies in Kumasi, findings indicate a demonstration of an unclear nature of policies, and a lack of focus on climate change issues in urban planning....
In this era of rationalism, 'good' urban planning and management decisions are deemed to be those that are able to identify a tangible balance of environmental benefits (i.e., safeguarding environmental resources such as nature reserves and open spaces, and health) and socio-economic development,...
Building Resilience to Climate Change Through Adaptive Land Use Planning in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam This paper describes the adaption needs of Ho Chi Minh City and its efforts to develop and incorporate adaptation principles into its urban decision-making... H Storch,N Downes,L Katzschner,....
Beyond rhetoric: urban planning-climate change resilience conundrum in Accra, Ghana Urban planning remains an important tool in managing climate change impacts. It also remains crucial in building sustainable adaptive capacities, particula... MO Asibey,F Mintah,IO Adutwum,... - 《Cities》 被引量...
Agriculture in urban planning: generating livelihoods and food security. London, UK: Earthscan.Redwood, M. (2009). Agriculture in urban planning- generating... MD Redwood 被引量: 0发表: 2009年 Climate change, rural livelihoods and agriculture (focus on Food security) in Asia-Pacific region Clim...
Urban planning provides potential for lake restoration through catchment re-vegetation Encroachment of urban areas into forest and farmland is typically considered to have detrimental effects on terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Most restor... IC Duggan - 《Urban Forestry & Urban Greening》 被引量: ...
Taking African countries with the fastest rates of urbanization as an example, the decentralization of services in Ghana leads to a reducing rural-to-urban migration23 (the Ethiopian government directly discourages rural-to-urban migration; National Population Policy of Ethiopia, 1993)24; and urban ...
The urban environment influences human health, safety and wellbeing. Cities in Africa are growing faster than other regions but have limited data to guide urban planning and policies. Our aim was to use smart sensing and analytics to characterise the spa
Food safety is integral to food security and is increasingly becoming a significant concern in the urban areas of Africa, which are rapidly growing in population. In the case of Ghana, many urban households depend on traditional open-air markets for most of their food needs. However, these urb...
perspectives on planning for climate change and urban informality that do not frame ‘top-down’ and ‘bottom-up’ approaches as necessarily mutually exclusive. Climate change fundamentally challenges life within informal economies and settlements, a...