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Austin Dziwornu Ablo

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Verified email at ug.edu.gh Professor of Human Geography, University of Ghana ORCID 0000-0002-8240-4599 Google Scholar

CollegeCOLLEGE OF HUMANITIES
School / InstituteSCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
DepartmentDEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY AND RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
Urban GeographyNatural Resource GovernanceEnergyAgriculture
Publications

62

Citations

1,310

H-index

21

i10-index

30

Publication activity
Publication statistics
Average citations
21.1
Most cited paper
219
First publication year
1900
Latest publication year
2026
Last updated
13 Sep 2026, 22:56
Publications

62 matching publications

PublicationYearJournalThematic areaCitations
Local content and participation in Ghana's oil and gas industry: Can enterprise development make a difference?
AD Ablo
2015 The Extractive Industries and Society 2 (2), 320-327, 2015 Social Sciences 219
Urban sprawl in sub-Saharan Africa: A review of the literature in selected countries
GAB Yiran, AD Ablo, FE Asem, G Owusu
2020 Ghana Journal of Geography 12 (1), 1-28, 2020 Social Sciences 108
Enterprise development? Local content, corporate social responsibility and disjunctive linkages in Ghana’s oil and gas industry
AD Ablo
2020 The Extractive Industries and Society 7 (2), 321-327, 2020 Social Sciences 83
Local participation, institutions and land acquisition for energy infrastructure: The case of the Atuabo gas project in Ghana
AD Ablo, VK Asamoah
2018 Energy research & social science 41, 191-198, 2018 Social Sciences 77
Water scarcity and alternative water sources in South Africa: can information provision shift perceptions?
FX Prins, A Etale, AD Ablo, A Thatcher
2023 Urban Water Journal 20 (10), 1438-1449, 2023 Social Sciences 66
Networks, trust and capital mobilisation: challenges of embedded local entrepreneurial strategies in Ghana's oil and gas industry
AD Ablo, R Overå
2015 The Journal of Modern African Studies 53 (3), 391-413, 2015 Social Sciences 60
Scale, local content and the challenges of Ghanaians employment in the oil and gas industry
AD Ablo
2018 Geoforum 96, 181-189, 2018 Social Sciences 59
Urban water stress and poor sanitation in Ghana: perception and experiences of residents in the Ashaiman Municipality
AD Ablo, EE Yekple
2018 GeoJournal 83 (3), 583-594, 2018 Social Sciences 58
Urbanisation and domestic energy trends: Analysis of household energy consumption patterns in relation to land-use change in peri-urban Accra, Ghana
GAB Yiran, AD Ablo, FE Asem
2020 Land Use Policy 99, 105047, 2020 Social Sciences 47
The importance and limitations of social networks and social identities for labour market integration: The case of Ghanaian immigrants in Bergen, Norway
R Badwi, AD Ablo, R Overå
2018 Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift-Norwegian Journal of Geography 72 (1), 27-36, 2018 Social Sciences 43
Manning the rigs: a study of offshore employment in Ghana’s oil industry
AD Ablo
2012 Unpublished master thesis, University of Bergen. http://hdl. handle. net, 2012 Social Sciences 37
In-situ adaptation and coastal vulnerabilities in Ghana and Tanzania
J Yang, V Owusu, E Andriesse, A Dziwornu Ablo
2019 The Journal of Environment & Development 28 (3), 282-308, 2019 Social Sciences 34
The micromechanisms of power in local content requirements and their constraints on Ghanaian SMEs in the oil and gas sector
AD Ablo
2017 Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift-Norwegian Journal of Geography 71 (2), 67-78, 2017 Social Sciences 33
Aligning bottom-up initiatives and top-down policies? A comparative analysis of overfishing and coastal governance in Ghana, Tanzania, the Philippines, and Thailand
E Andriesse, K Saguin, AD Ablo, J Kittitornkool, C Kongkaew, J Mang'ena, ...
2022 Journal of rural studies 92, 404-414, 2022 Social Sciences 31
Urban Sprawl, Land Use Change and the Changing Rural Agrarian Livelihood in Peri-Urban Accra, Ghana
AD Ablo, F Asem, Y Gerald, G Owusu
2020 Rural-urban linkages and sustainable development: Case studies from Africa …, 2020 Social Sciences 31
Actors, networks and assemblages: Local content, corruption and the politics of SME’s participation in Ghana’s oil and gas industry
AD Ablo
2019 International Development Planning Review 41 (2), 193-214, 2019 Social Sciences 30
A SHADOWY ‘CITY OF LIGHT’: Private Urbanism, Large‐Scale Land Acquisition and Dispossession in Ghana
AD Ablo, BE Bertelsen
2022 International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 2022 Social Sciences 26
Private urbanism and the spatial rationalities of urban governance
AD Ablo
2023 Urban Studies 60 (3), 442-460, 2023 Social Sciences 24
Land governance and access dynamics in Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana
EO Denchie, AD Ablo, R Overå
2021 African Geographical Review 40 (4), 364-377, 2021 Social Sciences 24
Carceral labour: Offshore work relations, conflicts and local participation in Ghana's oil and gas industry
AD Ablo
2022 Political Geography 93, 102556, 2022 Social Sciences 23
COVID-19 pandemic: Ghana and the geographies of blame
B Owusu, SK Kutor, AD Ablo
2022 Geojournal, 2022 Social Sciences 21
Households’ access and expenditure on water services: Examining intra-urban differences in the Accra metropolis, Ghana
LK Frimpong, SL Mensah, AD Ablo
2024 Urban Governance 4 (3), 222-231, 2024 Social Sciences 19
Sacrificing the savannah woodlands for energy and livelihoods? Charcoal production in Ghana
AD Ablo, L Osei, FX Jarawura, JA Yaro
2022 Energy for Sustainable Development 70, 549-559, 2022 Social Sciences 19
Private cities, land, and the transformation of Africa’s urban fringe
AD Ablo
2024 Urban Geography 45 (7), 1214-1235, 2024 Social Sciences 17
Beyond technical: delineating factors influencing recycled water acceptability
AD Ablo, A Etale
2024 Urban Water Journal 21 (8), 1014-1021, 2024 Social Sciences 15