George Owusu
PROFESSOR
CollegeCOLLEGE OF HUMANITIES
School / InstituteINST. OF STAT. SOC.& ECON. RES
DepartmentINSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL, SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC RESEARCH SECRETARIAT
urban geographyurban planningurbanization
Publication activity
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Publications
167 matching publications
| Publication | Year | Journal | Thematic area | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Urban growth, globalization and access to housing in Ghana’s largest metropolitan area, Accra G Owusu |
2011 | 4th European conference on African studies, Uppsala, 15-18, 2011 | Social Sciences | 31 |
| Persistent, pragmatic and prolific: Urban master planning in Accra, Dar es Salaam and Lilongwe S Croese, J Robinson, KK Amedzro, P Harrison, W Kombe, E Mwathunga, ... |
2023 | Land Use Policy 133, 106832, 2023 | Social Sciences | 30 |
| Sachet water in Ghana: A spatiotemporal analysis of the recent upward trend in consumption and its relationship with changing household characteristics, 2010–2017 S Moulds, ACH Chan, JD Tetteh, H Bixby, G Owusu, S Agyei-Mensah, ... |
2022 | PloS one 17 (5), e0265167, 2022 | Social Sciences | 30 |
| Geographies of crime and collective efficacy in urban Ghana M Oteng-Ababio, AY Owusu, G Owusu, C Wrigley-Asante |
2017 | Territory, Politics, Governance 5 (4), 459-477, 2017 | Social Sciences | 29 |
| Collective efficacy and fear of crime in urban neighbourhoods in Ghana LK Frimpong, M Oteng-Ababio, G Owusu, C Wrigley-Asante |
2018 | Safer Communities 17 (3), 167-181, 2018 | Social Sciences | 28 |
| Changes in Land Access, Rights, and Livelihoods in Peri-urban Ghana: The Case of Accra, Kumasi, and Tamale Metroplis G Owusu |
2008 | Institute of Statistical, Social, and Economic Research, University of Ghana, 2008 | Social Sciences | 28 |
| Beyond here and now: Evaluating pollution estimation across space and time from street view images with deep learning R Nathvani, D Vishwanath, SN Clark, AS Alli, E Muller, H Coste, ... |
2023 | Science of the total environment 903, 166168, 2023 | Engineering | 27 |
| Reframing urban development politics: Transcalarity in sovereign, developmental and private circuits J Robinson, P Harrison, S Croese, R Sheburah Essien, W Kombe, ... |
2025 | Urban Studies 62 (1), 3-30, 2025 | Social Sciences | 26 |
| Following the footsteps: Urbanisation of Wa Municipality and its synergism in risk accumulation, uncertainties and complexities in urban Ghana M Oteng-Ababio, G Owusu, DM Asafo |
2019 | Jàmbá: Journal of Disaster Risk Studies 11 (1), 1-10, 2019 | Social Sciences | 25 |
| Phenotyping urban built and natural environments with high-resolution satellite images and unsupervised deep learning AB Metzler, R Nathvani, V Sharmanska, W Bai, E Muller, S Moulds, ... |
2023 | Science of the Total Environment 893, 164794, 2023 | Social Sciences | 22 |
| Introduction: Urban crime and poverty nexus G Owusu |
2016 | Ghana Journal of Geography 8 (1), 1–10-1–10, 2016 | Social Sciences | 22 |
| Urban health in Africa: looking beyond the MDGs S Agyei-Mensah, G Owusu, C Wrigley-Asante |
2015 | International Development Planning Review 37 (1), 53-60, 2015 | Social Sciences | 22 |
| Quantifying within-city inequalities in child mortality across neighbourhoods in Accra, Ghana: a Bayesian spatial analysis H Bixby, JE Bennett, AA Bawah, RE Arku, SK Annim, JD Anum, SE Mintah, ... |
2022 | BMJ open 12 (1), e054030, 2022 | Health Sciences | 21 |
| Synthesizing the links between secure housing tenure and health for more equitable cities J Baumgartner, J Rodriguez, F Berkhout, Y Doyle, M Ezzati, G Owusu, ... |
2023 | Wellcome open research 7, 18, 2023 | Health Sciences | 20 |
| Unmasking the contributing factors of entrepreneurial activities among men and women in Ghana P Quartey, M Danquah, G Owusu, AM Iddrisu |
2018 | Journal of Economic Studies 45 (1), 114-125, 2018 | Social Sciences | 20 |
| Youth entrepreneurship in Ghana: current trends and policies G Owusu, PWK Yankson, RD Osei |
2016 | Young entrepreneurs in sub-Saharan Africa, 32-47, 2016 | Social Sciences | 16 |
| Crime and safety in urban public spaces: Experiences of Ghanaian women traders in the Makola market in Accra, Ghana C Wrigley‐Asante, G Owusu, JB Amu, TS Commodore |
2022 | The Geographical Journal 188 (1), 76-90, 2022 | Social Sciences | 15 |
| Public confidence in the police: Tests of instrumental and expressive models in a developing country city LK Frimpong, M Oteng-Ababio, G Owusu, C Wrigley-Asante |
2019 | Police Practice and Research 20 (2), 139-155, 2019 | Social Sciences | 15 |
| Characterisation of urban environment and activity across space and time using street images and deep learning in Accra R Nathvani, SN Clark, E Muller, AS Alli, JE Bennett, J Nimo, JB Moses, ... |
2022 | Scientific Reports 12 (1), 20470, 2022 | Social Sciences | 14 |
| Determinants of perceived insecurity in a low-income neighborhood in Accra, Ghana C Wrigley-Asante, LK Frimpong, JT Amu, G Owusu, M Oteng-Ababio |
2019 | Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and Urban …, 2019 | Social Sciences | 14 |
| Lack of equal access to ICTs by women: An e-governance issue JE Awotwi, G Owusu |
2008 | Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Theory and practice of …, 2008 | Social Sciences | 14 |
| Chiefs and floods: hybrid governance and co-production of flood risk adaptation in Tamale, Ghana S Agyei-Mensah, G Owusu, C Awuni, B Howard, I Fuseini, W Buytaert, ... |
2024 | Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning 26 (6), 656-672, 2024 | Social Sciences | 13 |
| Large-scale urban road corridors development and urban sprawl in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area, Ghana KK Amedzro, RS Essien, MA Issah, G Owusu |
2024 | International Development Planning Review 46 (2), 175-198, 2024 | Social Sciences | 13 |
| e-governance in an environment with limited resources: a case study of Ghana JE Awotwi, G Owusu |
2007 | Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Theory and practice of …, 2007 | Social Sciences | 13 |
| Unsupervised deep clustering of high-resolution satellite imagery reveals phenotypes of urban development in Sub-Saharan Africa AB Metzler, R Nathvani, V Sharmanska, W Bai, S Moulds, NS Owoo, ... |
2025 | Science of The Total Environment 988, 179739, 2025 | Social Sciences | 11 |