Dr Divine Asafo's Outputs (5)

Peri-urban transformations : Changing land markets and (in)security in peri-urban Accra, Ghana (2024)
Book Chapter
Asafo, D. (2024). Peri-urban transformations : Changing land markets and (in)security in peri-urban Accra, Ghana. In Living the urban periphery : infrastructure, everyday life and economic change in African city-regions (186-206). Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526171221

This chapter analyses recent transitions within Accra’s peri-urban land market. It explores pressures on peripherally located land in the context of significant affordability issues in wider Accra and the ways in which land originally owned and manag... Read More about Peri-urban transformations : Changing land markets and (in)security in peri-urban Accra, Ghana.

Fragile and compromised housing: Implications of land conflicts on housing development in peri-urban Accra, Ghana (2022)
Journal Article
Asafo, D. M. (2022). Fragile and compromised housing: Implications of land conflicts on housing development in peri-urban Accra, Ghana. Housing Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2022.2119209

Existing housing literature in the Global south suggests housing development processes are linear and do not appear to incorporate unexpected events such as land conflicts, which cause destructions, stoppages, and setbacks to housing development. Thi... Read More about Fragile and compromised housing: Implications of land conflicts on housing development in peri-urban Accra, Ghana.

‘Landguardism’ in Ghana: Examining public perceptions about the driving factors (2021)
Journal Article
Ehwi, R. J., & Mawuli, D. A. (2021). ‘Landguardism’ in Ghana: Examining public perceptions about the driving factors. Land use policy, 109, Article 105630. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2021.105630

Landguardism has become a bane in Ghana's urban land markets. Previous studies have qualitatively explored the drivers of this phenomenon from the perspectives of both state agencies and landguards themselves. Despite the insights uncovered, understa... Read More about ‘Landguardism’ in Ghana: Examining public perceptions about the driving factors.

At the city edge : situating peripheries research in South Africa and Ethiopia (2021)
Book Chapter
Meth, P., Todes, A., Charlton, S., Mukweda, T., Houghton, J., Goodfellow, T., Belihu, M., Huang, Z., Asafo, D., Buthelezi, S., & Masikane, F. (2021). At the city edge : situating peripheries research in South Africa and Ethiopia. In M. Keith, & A. A. de Souza Santos (Eds.), African cities and collaborative futures : urban platforms and metropolitan logistics (30-52). Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526155351.00008

Following the footsteps: Urbanisation of Wa Municipality and its synergism in risk accumulation, uncertainties and complexities in urban Ghana (2019)
Journal Article
Oteng-Ababio, M., Owusu, G., & Asafo, D. (2019). Following the footsteps: Urbanisation of Wa Municipality and its synergism in risk accumulation, uncertainties and complexities in urban Ghana. Jàmbá : Journal of Disaster Risk Studies, 11(1), Article a479. https://doi.org/10.4102/jamba.v11i1.479

Global demographic characteristics have witnessed a significant shift with more than half of the world’s population crossing the rural–urban threshold in 2008. In Ghana, the 2010 census report revealed 50.9% urban population. While the many benefits... Read More about Following the footsteps: Urbanisation of Wa Municipality and its synergism in risk accumulation, uncertainties and complexities in urban Ghana.