Rosina Sheburah Essien
Biographic Data
| ID | 242354 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rosina Sheburah Essien |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rosina Sheburah |
| FAMILY NAME | Essien |
| SIGNATURE | ESSIEN R S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ghana |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4878-6474 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
‘Ambivalencing’ and Governance of the Achimota Urban Forest Reserve in Accra, Ghana
The World Bank and Ghana’s resilient development agenda
For over six decades, the World Bank has been a pivotal actor in Ghana’s development, yet the evolution of its role in shaping the country’s resilient development agenda remains underexplored. This paper argues that resilience, while only explicitly adopted in the World Bank’s report following the 2015 Accra floods, has been an implicit and enduring development objective of its interventions in Ghana since the postcolonial era. Tracing the Bank’s…
Female farmers’ struggles and responses to Covid-19 in Ghana
The COVID-19 lockdown measures exacerbated the struggles of societies with existing inequalities. Given that women are generally the most vulnerable in times of pandemics and associated economic downturns, the study seeks to understand the struggles that female farmers experienced during the COVID-19 crisis and their survival responses and livelihood enhancement. To do this, we organized six women’s focus group discussions and interviewed 145 wom…
The same old story: ‘Saiko’ practices and coastal livelihoods in Ghana’s small-scale fisheries
Committeefication of African urban development: The case of Ghana’s Greater Accra Resilient and Integrated Development Project (Garid)
Reframing urban development politics: Transcalarity in sovereign, developmental and private circuits
This paper develops the idea of transcalarity to reframe analyses of urban development politics. Our analysis starts from African contexts but is relevant to, and in conversation with, experiences on other continents. Accounts of the politics of urban development have rarely benefitted from the experiences of African urban settings. Characterised by relatively weakly resourced municipalities, informality of the urban setting and of the state, and…
The agency of national government in negotiating resilient urban infrastructure development: The case of Garid, Accra
Compounding the peasant struggles: The effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on Ghanaian farmers' adaptation to climate change
In recent times, the effects of climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic and other natural disasters have undermined global efforts to reduce poverty and inequality among rural farmers. While efforts at mitigating the impacts of climate change, particularly in developing countries, have not yielded significant improvements, the global health crises of the COVID-19 pandemic have, in many ways, undermined the positive adaptations to climate change. Ba…
“Be ready to pay because others are paying”: Contested solid waste management transitions and charges in Accra’s open-air markets
Approaches to solid waste management (SWM) in African cities have gone through various phases. Each phase is shaped by a range of factors, including population growth, urbanisation, government policies and political willingness to invest in SWM infrastructure as well as SWM services. In the Ghanaian context, the latter factor is said to be subject to public perceptions of SWM as a welfare service and hence the reluctance of people to pay for SWM …
Large-scale urban road corridors development and urban sprawl in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area, Ghana
This article was published open access under a CC BY licence: https://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/ Uncontrolled urban expansion is a characteristic feature of many cities of the global South. In this paper, we focus on how urban road infrastructure investments largely financed through bilateral and multilateral loans and grants inadvertently drive urban sprawl within the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (GAMA), Ghana. To do this qualitativ…
Overcoming Obstacles to the Integration of Informal Actors in Accra’s Open-Air Marketplaces
Local Market Institutions and Solid Waste Management in Accra's Open-Air Markets
Solid waste management is a global concern that has been handled in several ways in different parts of the world. In cities of the Global North, measures meant to prevent or minimise solid waste generation and its associated challenges are based on the waste management hierarchy, whereas in cities in the Global South, the active involvement of the public and private sectors is well documented. Existing studies cover practices of solid waste colle…
Reframing urban development politics: Transcalarity in sovereign, developmental and private circuits
This paper develops the idea of transcalarity to reframe analyses of urban development politics. Our analysis starts from African contexts but is relevant to, and in conversation with, experiences on other continents. Accounts of the politics of urban development have rarely benefitted from the experiences of African urban settings. Characterised by relatively weakly resourced municipalities, informality of the urban setting and of the state, and…
The agency of national government in negotiating resilient urban infrastructure development: The case of Garid, Accra
Overcoming Obstacles to the Integration of Informal Actors in Accra’s Open-Air Marketplaces
Local Market Institutions and Solid Waste Management in Accra's Open-Air Markets
Solid waste management is a global concern that has been handled in several ways in different parts of the world. In cities of the Global North, measures meant to prevent or minimise solid waste generation and its associated challenges are based on the waste management hierarchy, whereas in cities in the Global South, the active involvement of the public and private sectors is well documented. Existing studies cover practices of solid waste colle…
“Be ready to pay because others are paying”: Contested solid waste management transitions and charges in Accra’s open-air markets
Approaches to solid waste management (SWM) in African cities have gone through various phases. Each phase is shaped by a range of factors, including population growth, urbanisation, government policies and political willingness to invest in SWM infrastructure as well as SWM services. In the Ghanaian context, the latter factor is said to be subject to public perceptions of SWM as a welfare service and hence the reluctance of people to pay for SWM …
Large-scale urban road corridors development and urban sprawl in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area, Ghana
This article was published open access under a CC BY licence: https://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/ Uncontrolled urban expansion is a characteristic feature of many cities of the global South. In this paper, we focus on how urban road infrastructure investments largely financed through bilateral and multilateral loans and grants inadvertently drive urban sprawl within the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (GAMA), Ghana. To do this qualitativ…
Female farmers’ struggles and responses to Covid-19 in Ghana
The COVID-19 lockdown measures exacerbated the struggles of societies with existing inequalities. Given that women are generally the most vulnerable in times of pandemics and associated economic downturns, the study seeks to understand the struggles that female farmers experienced during the COVID-19 crisis and their survival responses and livelihood enhancement. To do this, we organized six women’s focus group discussions and interviewed 145 wom…
The same old story: ‘Saiko’ practices and coastal livelihoods in Ghana’s small-scale fisheries
Committeefication of African urban development: The case of Ghana’s Greater Accra Resilient and Integrated Development Project (Garid)
Reframing urban development politics: Transcalarity in sovereign, developmental and private circuits
This paper develops the idea of transcalarity to reframe analyses of urban development politics. Our analysis starts from African contexts but is relevant to, and in conversation with, experiences on other continents. Accounts of the politics of urban development have rarely benefitted from the experiences of African urban settings. Characterised by relatively weakly resourced municipalities, informality of the urban setting and of the state, and…
The agency of national government in negotiating resilient urban infrastructure development: The case of Garid, Accra
Compounding the peasant struggles: The effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on Ghanaian farmers' adaptation to climate change
In recent times, the effects of climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic and other natural disasters have undermined global efforts to reduce poverty and inequality among rural farmers. While efforts at mitigating the impacts of climate change, particularly in developing countries, have not yielded significant improvements, the global health crises of the COVID-19 pandemic have, in many ways, undermined the positive adaptations to climate change. Ba…
‘Ambivalencing’ and Governance of the Achimota Urban Forest Reserve in Accra, Ghana
The World Bank and Ghana’s resilient development agenda
For over six decades, the World Bank has been a pivotal actor in Ghana’s development, yet the evolution of its role in shaping the country’s resilient development agenda remains underexplored. This paper argues that resilience, while only explicitly adopted in the World Bank’s report following the 2015 Accra floods, has been an implicit and enduring development objective of its interventions in Ghana since the postcolonial era. Tracing the Bank’s…
Urban and Rural Development Challenges (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Business (5 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Municipal Solid Waste Management (3 works) · Urban planning (3 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (3 works) · Agency (philosophy (2 works) · Agricultural risk and resilience (2 works)