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Martin Oteng-Ababio

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Verified email at ug.edu.gh University of Ghana Google Scholar

CollegeCOLLEGE OF HUMANITIES
School / InstituteSCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
DepartmentDEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY AND RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
urban environmental studiesUrban disaster risk reductionurban studies
Publications

176

Citations

4,855

H-index

38

i10-index

87

Publication activity
Publication statistics
Average citations
27.6
Most cited paper
323
First publication year
1900
Latest publication year
2026
Last updated
14 Sep 2026, 11:10
Publications

176 matching publications

PublicationYearJournalThematic areaCitations
Solid waste management in African cities: Sorting the facts from the fads in Accra, Ghana
M Oteng-Ababio, JEM Arguello, O Gabbay
2013 Habitat International 39, 96-104, 2013 Social Sciences 323
Mapping the invisible and real" African" economy: urban e-waste circuitry
R Grant, M Oteng-Ababio
2012 Urban Geography 33 (1), 1-21, 2012 Social Sciences 309
Private sector involvement in solid waste management in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area in Ghana
M Oteng-Ababio
2010 Waste Management & Research 28 (4), 322-329, 2010 Social Sciences 190
When Necessity Begets Ingenuity: E-Waste Scavenging as a Livelihood Strategy in Accra, Ghana.
M Oteng-Ababio
2012 African Studies Quarterly 13 (1/2), 1, 2012 Social Sciences 160
E-waste: An emerging challenge to solid waste management in Ghana
M Oteng-Ababio
2010 International development planning review 32 (2), 191-206, 2010 Social Sciences 141
Moving Unruly Contemporary Urbanism Towards Sustainable Urban Development in Ghana by 2030
G Owusu, M Oteng-Ababio
1900 American Behavioral Scientist, 0 Social Sciences 140
Electronic waste management in Ghana
M Oteng-Ababio, S Curkovic
2012 Sustainable development: Authoritative and leading edge content for …, 2012 Social Sciences 131
Rethinking waste as a resource: insights from a low-income community in Accra, Ghana
M Oteng-Ababio
2014 City, territory and architecture 1 (1), 10, 2014 Social Sciences 130
Perceptions of health and environmental impacts of e-waste management in Ghana
S Agyei-Mensah, M Oteng-Ababio
2012 International journal of environmental health research 22 (6), 500-517, 2012 Social Sciences 118
The role of the informal sector in solid waste management in the GAMA, Ghana: Challenges and opportunities
M Oteng‐Ababio
2012 Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie 103 (4), 412-425, 2012 Social Sciences 117
Missing links in solid waste management in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area in Ghana
M Oteng-Ababio
2011 GeoJournal 76 (5), 551-560, 2011 Social Sciences 116
The global transformation of materials and the emergence of informal urban mining in Accra, Ghana
RJ Grant, M Oteng-Ababio
2016 Africa Today 62 (4), 3-20, 2016 Social Sciences 109
The local contours of scavenging for e-waste and higher-valued constituent parts in Accra, Ghana
M Oteng-Ababio, EF Amankwaa, MA Chama
2014 Habitat International 43, 163-171, 2014 Social Sciences 98
Conflicts and governance of landfills in a developing country city, Accra
G Owusu, M Oteng-Ababio, RL Afutu-Kotey
2012 Landscape and Urban Planning 104 (1), 105-113, 2012 Social Sciences 94
Application of theory of planned behaviour to households’ source separation behaviour in Ghana
H Alhassan, FA Asante, M Oteng-Ababio, S Bawakyillenuo
2018 Management of Environmental Quality: An International Journal 29 (4), 704-721, 2018 Social Sciences 92
Crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) and built-environmental manifestations in Accra and Kumasi, Ghana
G Owusu, C Wrigley-Asante, M Oteng-Ababio, A Yaa Owusu
2015 Crime Prevention and Community Safety 17 (4), 249-269, 2015 Social Sciences 85
Successful community participation in climate change adaptation programs: on whose terms?
S Samaddar, M Oteng-Ababio, F Dayour, A Ayaribila, FK Obeng, R Ziem, ...
2021 Environmental Management 67 (4), 747-762, 2021 Natural Sciences 80
Virtue out of necessity? Urbanisation, urban growth and Okada services in Accra, Ghana
E Agyemang
2012 Journal of Geography and Geology, 2012 Social Sciences 69
Downgrading–An overlooked reality in African cities: Reflections from an indigenous neighborhood of Accra, Ghana
JEM Arguello, R Grant, M Oteng-Ababio, BM Ayele
2013 Applied Geography 36, 23-30, 2013 Social Sciences 68
The vulnerable state of the Ghana coast: The case of Faana-Bortianor
M Oteng-Ababio, K Owusu
2011 Jàmbá: Journal of Disaster Risk Studies 3 (2), 429-442, 2011 Social Sciences 68
Thinking globally, acting locally: formalizing informal solid waste management practices in Ghana
M Oteng-Ababio, E Owusu-Sekyere, ST Amoah
2017 Journal of Developing Societies 33 (1), 75-98, 2017 Social Sciences 67
Evaluating effective public participation in disaster management and climate change adaptation: Insights from Northern Ghana through a user‐based approach
S Samaddar, M Yokomatsu, F Dayour, M Oteng‐Ababio, T Dzivenu, ...
2015 Risk, Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy 6 (1), 117-143, 2015 Social Sciences 67
Exploring the realities of resilience: Case study of Kantamanto Market fire in Accra, Ghana
M Oteng-Ababio, KO Sarfo, E Owusu-Sekyere
2015 International journal of disaster risk reduction 12, 311-318, 2015 Social Sciences 65
The okada war in urban Ghana: a polemic issue or policy mismatch?
M Oteng-Ababio, E Agyemang
2015 African Studies Quarterly 15 (4), 25-44, 2015 Social Sciences 61
Ideological traces in Ghana's urban plans: How do traces get worked out in the Agbogbloshie, Accra?
M Oteng-Ababio, R Grant
2019 Habitat International 83, 1-10, 2019 Social Sciences 57