Martin Oteng-Ababio
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3620437 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Martin Oteng-Ababio |
| NOMBRES | Martin |
| APELLIDO | Oteng-Ababio |
| FIRMA | OTENG-ABABIO M |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Ghana |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 33 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 147 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2010 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Hybrid sanitation infrastructure in Tema, Ghana
Population growth, urbanization, insecure land rights, and underinvestment impede the development of sanitation infrastructure in African cities. In response, decentralized, affordable, community-driven hybrid sanitation systems have emerged, frequently initiated by local stakeholders. This study examines such systems in Tema, Ghana, an originally planned city undergoing significant unplanned expansion. Employing mixed methods, including surveys …
Cultural convergence and Indigenous transitions
This paper investigates how the migration and cultural practices of Akan migrants are reshaping indigenous cultural norms among Ga families in Accra, Ghana with a focus on Ga Mashie and Nsakina. Drawing on 40 in-depth interviews and situated within the bi-dimensional model of acculturation theory, the paper explores structural and functional changes in Ga family life. Key findings show that, Ga natives are increasingly adopting Akan language and …
Informal governance and power dynamics in rurban e-waste assemblages of Accra and Ashaiman, Ghana
Despite growing knowledge on informal e-waste economies in the Global South, thorough understanding is lacking of how power structures operate across different urban contexts and what this means for livelihood sustainability. Drawing on dyadic power theory and political ecology, this study examines informal governance in two contrasting e-waste communities in Ghana’s Greater Accra Region: Sodom-Agbogbloshie and Ashaiman. A mixed-methods analysis …
Toward a Circular Economy for a Sociotechnical Transition in Ghana’s e-waste Sector
Our study addresses a gap in knowledge by examining the interplay between interventions and sustainability within Ghana’s e-waste industry. We assess the ongoing circular economy initiatives in e-waste, connect them to prospects for sociotechnical transition, and reflect on critical integration gaps and challenges. We analyze acts/policy documents and interview 20 key stakeholders. Our findings highlight the complexity of transitioning from infor…
Normative influence on intention to segregate household waste
High mobility lifestyles
This paper explores everyday travel behavior among urbanites in Accra's periphery and unpacks how travel choices and preferences are conditioned and constrained in a context of rapid urban expansion, unregulated residential sprawl, infrastructural deficits, congestion and changing socio-economic conditions. The paper draws on qualitative interviews (n = 48) and a travel survey (n = 2107) targeting economically active adults residing in peripheral…
Academic urban legend, Agbogbloshie
Built-in Flood Risk
Urban flood risk is significantly shaped by ground conditions and the built environment, which are constantly modified and transformed by human actions. This paper examines the intertwinement of flood risk and unregulated urban expansion processes in three selected sites in Accra’s expanding periphery. All three sites have been included in Accra’s urban extent since the 1990s, but differ with regard to the timing of development and socio-economic…
Formalising E-waste in Ghana
Since 2016 Ghana has introduced several initiatives to formalise parts of the e-waste economy. This e-waste management system is based on the experiences, expert policy advice and partial funding from the Global North. Employing serial interviewing, we assess the rolling out of this formalisation pathway, the evolving e-waste management landscape and reflect on informal terrain’s reconstitution and remaining barriers, such as inadequate funding, …
Food for thought
Of waste facility siting and relational geographies of place
Public confidence in the police
This paper examines the effect of instrumental and expressive concerns on public confidence in the police in three different residential areas in Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana’s third largest city. The study was important because of the knowledge vacuum that existed in regard to the empirical validity of the instrumental and expressive theoretical framework within the Ghanaian context. Data for the study was drawn from a baseline survey conducted in th…
Ideological traces in Ghana's urban plans
Informal Exceptionalism?' Labour Migrants' Creative Entrepreneurship for Sustainable Livelihoods in Accra, Ghana
Intra- and inter-regional migration is widely described. Prior studies have attribute varied reasons for this development including the quest for greener pastures and unequal development in northern Ghana. What has escaped critical scrutiny is some migrants' ability to escape extreme rural poverty, albeit in harsh urban environment. Such a missing gap can potentiate high policy failures, hence the need for academic attention. Using a mixed method…
The Oil is Drilled in Takoradi, but the Money is Counted in Accra
Recent scholarship on Ghana's oil industry has focused primarily on its grand contributions to the national economy while its intra-city impact has received less academic attention. Borrowing from Terry Karl's interpretation of the paradox of plenty, and drawing on empirical evidence from 25 purposefully selected interviewees, the study examines how the oil production off the shores of Sekondi-Takoradi is creating complex processes of accumulatio…
Poverty Politics and Governance of Potable Water Services
Landfill externalities and property values dilemma – emerging insights from three Ghanaian cities
Though debates about the negative impact landfill exerts on land and property values are by no means historically new, research into the case of developing countries has only recently begun. This article attempts to synthesise existing literature on the subject through the analysis of three case studies to enhance our understanding, especially the contextual conditions surrounding the relationship. Applying this theoretical framework to the dispo…
Thinking Globally, Acting Locally
The changing volume and content of municipal waste has overwhelmed the containment capacities of city authorities to remediate the problem. This elusive enterprise has sparked as much dissatisfaction with the mad rush for foreign-based models as with the new conceptual interventions. Many have questioned why a monumental challenge still lingers on in spite of the “much-acclaimed” potentials of the new interventions. Our article extends the debate…
The divergence between acceptability of municipal services and urbanization in developing countries
In most developing countries, the provision of municipal services and infrastructure invariably fails to match the pace and demands of urbanization. The outcome is often increased informality due to improper planning, official bureaucratic barriers and perhaps insufficient and shrinking public resources, which then makes leveraging private capital for public service provision imperative. Drawing on in-depth qualitative fieldwork in two Ghanaian c…
(Dis)continuities in Scale, Scope and Complexities of the Space Economy
Technology Must Seek Tradition
Crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) and built-environmental manifestations in Accra and Kumasi, Ghana
Moving Unruly Contemporary Urbanism Toward Sustainable Urban Development in Ghana by 2030
The widely held view that rapid urbanization is occurring across much of Sub-Saharan Africa has been questioned recently, and an alternative perspective has drawn attention to conditions of counter-urbanization and slow urbanization growth rates on the continent. This view has far-reaching implications for the urbanization agenda because the need for central government and metropolitan authorities to prepare for high levels of urbanization is in …
Rethinking waste as a resource
Conventional solid waste management protocols and thinking generally tend to assume that waste already exits and therefore needs to be managed. Consequently, most models of solid waste management, especially in the developing countries including Ghana, are simply reactions to the presence of something that needs to be disposed of or discarded. This paper sees this conventional solid waste management philosophy as a potential barrier to an efficie…
The local contours of scavenging for e-waste and higher-valued constituent parts in Accra, Ghana
Mapping the Invisible and Real "African" Economy
E-waste is a more than $7 billion industry. Trans-border shipments of e-waste occur in international circuits, typically originating in the United States and Europe, but now also from China, and connect to accumulation sites in particular networked cities in Africa and elsewhere. Debates about the material and environmental weight associated with uncontrolled dumping are now emerging in Africa. We diverge from those debates by concentrating on th…
Solid waste management in African cities
Moving Unruly Contemporary Urbanism Toward Sustainable Urban Development in Ghana by 2030
The widely held view that rapid urbanization is occurring across much of Sub-Saharan Africa has been questioned recently, and an alternative perspective has drawn attention to conditions of counter-urbanization and slow urbanization growth rates on the continent. This view has far-reaching implications for the urbanization agenda because the need for central government and metropolitan authorities to prepare for high levels of urbanization is in …
Missing links in solid waste management in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area in Ghana
Ideological traces in Ghana's urban plans
The divergence between acceptability of municipal services and urbanization in developing countries
In most developing countries, the provision of municipal services and infrastructure invariably fails to match the pace and demands of urbanization. The outcome is often increased informality due to improper planning, official bureaucratic barriers and perhaps insufficient and shrinking public resources, which then makes leveraging private capital for public service provision imperative. Drawing on in-depth qualitative fieldwork in two Ghanaian c…
The Oil is Drilled in Takoradi, but the Money is Counted in Accra
Recent scholarship on Ghana's oil industry has focused primarily on its grand contributions to the national economy while its intra-city impact has received less academic attention. Borrowing from Terry Karl's interpretation of the paradox of plenty, and drawing on empirical evidence from 25 purposefully selected interviewees, the study examines how the oil production off the shores of Sekondi-Takoradi is creating complex processes of accumulatio…
E-waste
The recent expanded usage of electronic materials like computers, television sets and refrigerators in Ghana has not generated an effective infrastructure of waste disposal. Since wastes associated with many electronic products exhibit hazardous characteristics, the absence of e-waste management law and appropriate infrastructure to handle its end-of-life by-products have compounded the challenges posed by their disposal. Using both qualitative a…
Informal Exceptionalism?' Labour Migrants' Creative Entrepreneurship for Sustainable Livelihoods in Accra, Ghana
Intra- and inter-regional migration is widely described. Prior studies have attribute varied reasons for this development including the quest for greener pastures and unequal development in northern Ghana. What has escaped critical scrutiny is some migrants' ability to escape extreme rural poverty, albeit in harsh urban environment. Such a missing gap can potentiate high policy failures, hence the need for academic attention. Using a mixed method…
The local contours of scavenging for e-waste and higher-valued constituent parts in Accra, Ghana
Beyond technical details
Geografisk Tidsskrift-Danish Journal of Geography 111(2):169–179, 2011 The development of a modern, sustainable system of waste management in developing countries is frequently delayed (and in some cases stalled) by causes that cannot be directly attributed to technical or economic reasons. One such project is the Kwabenya Engineered Sanitary Landfill Project which was conceived in 1991. This paper examines why the project was not actualized thou…
Food for thought
Thinking Globally, Acting Locally
The changing volume and content of municipal waste has overwhelmed the containment capacities of city authorities to remediate the problem. This elusive enterprise has sparked as much dissatisfaction with the mad rush for foreign-based models as with the new conceptual interventions. Many have questioned why a monumental challenge still lingers on in spite of the “much-acclaimed” potentials of the new interventions. Our article extends the debate…
Crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) and built-environmental manifestations in Accra and Kumasi, Ghana
High mobility lifestyles
This paper explores everyday travel behavior among urbanites in Accra's periphery and unpacks how travel choices and preferences are conditioned and constrained in a context of rapid urban expansion, unregulated residential sprawl, infrastructural deficits, congestion and changing socio-economic conditions. The paper draws on qualitative interviews (n = 48) and a travel survey (n = 2107) targeting economically active adults residing in peripheral…
Of waste facility siting and relational geographies of place
More rhetoric or less action? Digging into urban health vulnerabilities
Unscripted (in)Justice
The author examines geographies of environmental hazards in Accra, declared a Millennium City on I5 January 2010. With the aid of both primary and secondary data, it is shown how environmental governance has shifted under neoliberalism, and the author demonstrates how a review of Accra's waste disposal problems could elucidate how such paradigm shift has contributed to urban social injustice. Current practices are seen as a symptom of poor govern…
E-waste
The recent expanded usage of electronic materials like computers, television sets and refrigerators in Ghana has not generated an effective infrastructure of waste disposal. Since wastes associated with many electronic products exhibit hazardous characteristics, the absence of e-waste management law and appropriate infrastructure to handle its end-of-life by-products have compounded the challenges posed by their disposal. Using both qualitative a…
Missing links in solid waste management in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area in Ghana
Beyond technical details
Geografisk Tidsskrift-Danish Journal of Geography 111(2):169–179, 2011 The development of a modern, sustainable system of waste management in developing countries is frequently delayed (and in some cases stalled) by causes that cannot be directly attributed to technical or economic reasons. One such project is the Kwabenya Engineered Sanitary Landfill Project which was conceived in 1991. This paper examines why the project was not actualized thou…
Retracted Article
Mapping the Invisible and Real "African" Economy
E-waste is a more than $7 billion industry. Trans-border shipments of e-waste occur in international circuits, typically originating in the United States and Europe, but now also from China, and connect to accumulation sites in particular networked cities in Africa and elsewhere. Debates about the material and environmental weight associated with uncontrolled dumping are now emerging in Africa. We diverge from those debates by concentrating on th…
More rhetoric or less action? Digging into urban health vulnerabilities
Solid waste management in African cities
Unscripted (in)Justice
The author examines geographies of environmental hazards in Accra, declared a Millennium City on I5 January 2010. With the aid of both primary and secondary data, it is shown how environmental governance has shifted under neoliberalism, and the author demonstrates how a review of Accra's waste disposal problems could elucidate how such paradigm shift has contributed to urban social injustice. Current practices are seen as a symptom of poor govern…
Rethinking waste as a resource
Conventional solid waste management protocols and thinking generally tend to assume that waste already exits and therefore needs to be managed. Consequently, most models of solid waste management, especially in the developing countries including Ghana, are simply reactions to the presence of something that needs to be disposed of or discarded. This paper sees this conventional solid waste management philosophy as a potential barrier to an efficie…
The local contours of scavenging for e-waste and higher-valued constituent parts in Accra, Ghana
(Dis)continuities in Scale, Scope and Complexities of the Space Economy
Technology Must Seek Tradition
Crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) and built-environmental manifestations in Accra and Kumasi, Ghana
Moving Unruly Contemporary Urbanism Toward Sustainable Urban Development in Ghana by 2030
The widely held view that rapid urbanization is occurring across much of Sub-Saharan Africa has been questioned recently, and an alternative perspective has drawn attention to conditions of counter-urbanization and slow urbanization growth rates on the continent. This view has far-reaching implications for the urbanization agenda because the need for central government and metropolitan authorities to prepare for high levels of urbanization is in …
Poverty Politics and Governance of Potable Water Services
Landfill externalities and property values dilemma – emerging insights from three Ghanaian cities
Though debates about the negative impact landfill exerts on land and property values are by no means historically new, research into the case of developing countries has only recently begun. This article attempts to synthesise existing literature on the subject through the analysis of three case studies to enhance our understanding, especially the contextual conditions surrounding the relationship. Applying this theoretical framework to the dispo…
Thinking Globally, Acting Locally
The changing volume and content of municipal waste has overwhelmed the containment capacities of city authorities to remediate the problem. This elusive enterprise has sparked as much dissatisfaction with the mad rush for foreign-based models as with the new conceptual interventions. Many have questioned why a monumental challenge still lingers on in spite of the “much-acclaimed” potentials of the new interventions. Our article extends the debate…
The divergence between acceptability of municipal services and urbanization in developing countries
In most developing countries, the provision of municipal services and infrastructure invariably fails to match the pace and demands of urbanization. The outcome is often increased informality due to improper planning, official bureaucratic barriers and perhaps insufficient and shrinking public resources, which then makes leveraging private capital for public service provision imperative. Drawing on in-depth qualitative fieldwork in two Ghanaian c…
The Oil is Drilled in Takoradi, but the Money is Counted in Accra
Recent scholarship on Ghana's oil industry has focused primarily on its grand contributions to the national economy while its intra-city impact has received less academic attention. Borrowing from Terry Karl's interpretation of the paradox of plenty, and drawing on empirical evidence from 25 purposefully selected interviewees, the study examines how the oil production off the shores of Sekondi-Takoradi is creating complex processes of accumulatio…
Public confidence in the police
This paper examines the effect of instrumental and expressive concerns on public confidence in the police in three different residential areas in Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana’s third largest city. The study was important because of the knowledge vacuum that existed in regard to the empirical validity of the instrumental and expressive theoretical framework within the Ghanaian context. Data for the study was drawn from a baseline survey conducted in th…
Ideological traces in Ghana's urban plans
Informal Exceptionalism?' Labour Migrants' Creative Entrepreneurship for Sustainable Livelihoods in Accra, Ghana
Intra- and inter-regional migration is widely described. Prior studies have attribute varied reasons for this development including the quest for greener pastures and unequal development in northern Ghana. What has escaped critical scrutiny is some migrants' ability to escape extreme rural poverty, albeit in harsh urban environment. Such a missing gap can potentiate high policy failures, hence the need for academic attention. Using a mixed method…
Of waste facility siting and relational geographies of place
Formalising E-waste in Ghana
Since 2016 Ghana has introduced several initiatives to formalise parts of the e-waste economy. This e-waste management system is based on the experiences, expert policy advice and partial funding from the Global North. Employing serial interviewing, we assess the rolling out of this formalisation pathway, the evolving e-waste management landscape and reflect on informal terrain’s reconstitution and remaining barriers, such as inadequate funding, …
Food for thought
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