2023年7月1日 · Using a Bayesian spatial model, we combined remote sensing and census data to predict deprived “slum” areas in Accra, Ghana. Nearly one in five urban enumeration areas, …

2018年10月7日 · Can upgrading slums help solve the crisis? About 45% of Accra residents live in some form of slum housing. These areas are overcrowded, have limited access to piped water …

2012年1月1日 · This study examines vulnerability in relation to flooding, environmental degradation, social-status, demographics, and health in the slums of Accra, Ghana by utilizing …

2023年3月1日 · The study reveals the diversity of impacts of climate change on the health of slum dwellers in urban Accra, including direct and indirect impacts and their relationship to climate …

We first fitted a Bayesian logistic regression model on the data in Accra's urban core (n=2,414 EAs) that estimated the relationship between housing, population, and environmental …

During the first day of mapping the federation discovered that many of the communities identified by local authorities were a mixture of formal areas interspersed with pockets of informal slums. …

2022年10月29日 · The findings indicated that through land commercialization and housing commodification, neoliberalism has played an active and passive role in Ghana’s housing …

Slum conditions associated with squatter settlements pose major challenges in African cities. In the city of Accra, Ghana, municipal officials traditionally addressed squatter settlements...

2020年9月23日 · Excreta were collected in plastic bags and dumped in the river that bordered the slum, heavily silting a lagoon. Residents infilled the lagoon banks with waste materials to build …

2022年10月29日 · This article aimed to distil the critical role of neoliberalism in slum production in Accra, Ghana. The study relied primarily on secondary data by adopting the Boolean search …