Planning for Resilient Small and Medium-Sized Cities in Ghana by Diko, Stephen Kofi; Asare Okyere, Seth; Leonard Mensah, Stephen;

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Planning for Resilient Small and Medium-Sized Cities in Ghana explores the resilience and planning dynamics and complexities of rapid urban transitions in Ghana’s Small and Medium-sized Cities (SMCs) and their implications for Africa and the Global South.

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Planning for Resilient Small and Medium-Sized Cities in Ghana explores the resilience and planning dynamics and complexities of rapid urban transitions in Ghana’s small and medium-sized cities (SMCs) and their implications for Africa and the Global South.

The book argues that Ghana’s urban future may have more to do with the steady growth of SMCs, where urban consolidation is gradually taking a foothold. Recognizing that Ghana’s primary cities are well known to be socio-ecological hotspots of risk, reactive urban planning, and entrenched inequalities of alarming proportions, this book asks: would SMCs follow these troubling realities and trajectories in large cities or leapfrog to resilient futures that work for all? Through a range of interdisciplinary perspectives, the contributions emphasize the need for integrated planning strategies to navigate socio-ecological challenges and opportunities that SMCs face in terms of infrastructure, governance, and climate resilience.

By centering overlooked and understudied SMCs in Ghana’s urban scholarship, this book realigns resilience planning to the spaces and places emerging as the frontiers of socio-ecological crises. It will be of interest to students and researchers of city and regional planning, urban studies, geography, environmental studies and science, public policy, development studies, and public health, as well as urban planners, community development practitioners, geographers, environmental, disaster, and resilient personnel, and policymakers.

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List of Contributors

Acknowledgments

Foreword

Preface

INTRODUCTION: From Large to Small and Medium-Sized Cities: Shifting the Analytical and Policy Gaze on Urban Resilience in Ghana

Stephen Kofi Diko, Seth Asare Okyere, Stephen Leonard Mensah, and Louis Kusi Frimpong

PART ONE: CONCEPTUALIZING RESILIENCE AND ITS LIVELIHOOD IMPLICATIONS

CHAPTER ONE: Conceptualizing SMCs and Resilience Planning Nexus for Africa’s Urban Futures

Simon Donkoh, Truus Apoanaba Abuosi, Seth Asare Okyere, and Stephen Kofi Diko

CHAPTER TWO: Rethinking innovative strategies for building livelihood and climate resilience in small towns in Northern Ghana

John Aloba Atubiga, Louis Kusi Frimpong, Alobit Baba Atubiga, and Eric Donkor

CHAPTER THREE: Agricultural adaptation strategies for climate resilience in Sissala East District

George Yao Kafu and Armstrong Francis Tumawu

CHAPTER FOUR: Livelihood changes and their implications on resilience building in upstream communities of the Akosombo dam in Ghana

Eric Donkor, John Aloba Atubiga, Louis Kusi Frimpong, and Alobit Baba Atubiga

PART TWO: RESILIENCE OF SMC INFRASTRUCTURE AND SERVICES

CHAPTER FIVE: Mapping Resilience in Emerging Cities: Enhancing Equity and Infrastructure Resilience in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area of Ghana

Clement Kwang, Lewis Blagogie, Emmanuel Yeboah, Isaac Sarfo, and Silas Yakalim

CHAPTER SIX: Building Sustainable Futures through Resilient Healthcare Systems in Small Towns in Ghana

Joseph Donkor Mensah and Louis Kusi Frimpong

PART THREE: INSTITUTIONAL ACTORS AND RESILIENCE PLANNING

CHAPTER SEVEN: Socially Gated Communities and Urban Development in Ghana: Examples from Two Religious Groups

Adjei Sopore, Kate Gyasi, and Esther Yeboah Danso-Wiredu

CHAPTER EIGHT: Towards relational social resilience: Local associations and sustenance of communal living in Asamankese, Ghana

Christiana Ntowaa Pomeyie and Esther Yeboah Danso-Wiredu

CHAPTER NINE: Including Women in Community Water Governance: Implications for Gender-Sensitive Community Resilience Planning

Emmanuel Angmor

CHAPTER TEN: Inclusionary zoning and planning for resilient city development in urban Ghana

Isaac Osei Adutwum, Michael Poku-Boansi, Francisca Agyei, Frank Awere Kwayie Bimpong, and Michael Osei Asibey

CHAPTER ELEVEN: Managing Urban Expansion in Ghana’s Small and Medium-Sized Cities: Learning from International Experiences

Isaac Nevis Fianoo, Joshua Jirjiri, Leonard Stephen Mensah, Seth Asare Okyere, and

Tinawaen Tambol

CONCLUSION: Toward Resilient Small and Medium-sized Cities: Planning Implications for Africa and Beyond

Stephen Leonard Mensah, Stephen Kofi Diko, Seth Asare Okyere, and Louis Kusi Frimpong

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