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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
From local content to local participation? Exploring entrepreneurship in Ghana’s oil and gas industry
AD Ablo
2016 Social Sciences 14
Is Mango Farming Sustainable? An Integrated Analysis of Remote Sensing Techniques and Smallholder Farmers' Perception in Mango Farming Communities in Ghana
G Yiran, A Ablo, FE Asem
2023 Agriculture 12
Local content and local participation in the oil and gas industry: has Ghana gotten it right?
AD Ablo, W Otchere-Darko
2022 Petroleum Resource Management in Africa: Lessons from Ten Years of Oil and …, 2022 Social Sciences 12
Assessing foreign direct investment (FDI) in agriculture and employment in rural Ghana
AD Ablo, R Boadu
2020 Ghana Social Science Journal 17 (2), 16-40, 2020 Social Sciences 10
From local content to local participation
AD Ablo
2016 Exploring entrepreneurship in Ghana’s oil and gas industry, 2016 Social Sciences 10
Gender, CSR and port expansion in Ghana: Implications for inclusive development
AD Ablo, R Overå
2018 Development in Practice 28 (4), 515-526, 2018 Social Sciences 9
Dynamics of land access in Ghana’s real estate sector
EEY Yekple, R Overå, AD Ablo
2026 African geographical review 45 (2), 159-172, 2026 Social Sciences 8
Adapting to climate change amidst innovation diffusion and declining indigenous agricultural knowledge and practices in Ghana
P Siakwah, AD Ablo, R Sheburah-Essien, M Zaami, JA Yaro
2025 African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development 17 (2 …, 2025 Natural Sciences 7
Meeting Ghana’s housing needs:‘(un) affordable’public housing in a rapidly urbanising context
E Teye Ayumu, AD Ablo, BE Bertelsen
2026 International Journal of Housing Policy 26 (1), 18-41, 2026 Social Sciences 5
Female farmers’ struggles and responses to COVID-19 in Ghana
JA Yaro, R Sheburah Essien, AD Ablo, P Siakwah, M Zaami
2025 African Geographical Review 44 (2), 235-248, 2025 Social Sciences 4
Urban sprawl and the changing socioecological systems in peri-urban Ghana
AL Ofoli, AD Ablo, C Wrigley-Asante
2024 Local Environment 29 (10), 1402-1420, 2024 Social Sciences 3
Accumulation by dispossession: The timber ‘salvage’project on Ghana's Volta Lake
ET Lawer, AD Ablo
2023 The Extractive Industries and Society 13, 101205, 2023 Social Sciences 3
Labour power, materiality and protests in Ghana's petroleum and gold mines
W Otchere-Darko, AD Ablo
2021 International Development Planning Review, 1-27, 2021 Social Sciences 3
Petroleum Extraction in Africa: A Review of the Local Content Policies for the Oil Industry in Selected Countries
AD Ablo, W Otchere-Darko
2021 Routledge Handbook of Public Policy in Africa, 2021 Social Sciences 2
The Extractive Industries and Society
P Diallo
2017 Social Sciences 2
Local participation beyond the law: Gendered employment in Ghanaian oil and gas companies
AP Okosu, AD Ablo, C Wrigley-Asante
2025 The Extractive Industries and Society 23, 101663, 2025 Social Sciences 1
Land governance and conflict in West Africa through interdisciplinary empirical lenses
P Narh, L Doumbia, A Tounkara, AD Ablo
2024 Social Sciences 1
Development, Finance and reshaping the Solar Grid: Examining the Kaleo Project
W Otchere-Darko, H Akolgo-Azupogo, AD Ablo, RT Abdulai, D Darko, ...
2026 Workshop on Fuming Cities: Imaginaries and Enactments of Energy Transition …, 2026 Social Sciences 0
Enclaving: materializing detachment and attachment across African cities
AD Ablo, S Manuel, BE Bertelsen
2026 Africa 96 (3), 269-286, 2026 Social Sciences 0
Gatekeepers of the Urban Margin: Residents’ Associations and Everyday Governance in Peri-urban Accra, Ghana
DM Asafo, AD Ablo, G Odikro, MM Abubakar
2026 International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 2026 Social Sciences 0
Living the dream? Imagined space, lived place, and disillusionment in an enclaved private city
AD Ablo, R Overå
2026 Africa 96 (3), 287-308, 2026 Social Sciences 0
Renewable risks: The moral ecology of solar in Northern Ghana.
AD Ablo, H Akolgo-Azupogo, W Otchere-Darko, P Destrée, RT Abdulai, ...
2026 Conference on Energo-Economics: Energy Transitions as Moral Economy, 2026 Social Sciences 0
The Violence of Energy Transitions: Landscapes of Development, Insecurity, and Marginality from Africa
W Otchere-Darko, P Destrée, RT Abdulai, H Akolgo-Azupogo, AD Ablo, ...
2026 CAS Centre of African Studies Annual Conference, 2026 Social Sciences 0
Urban Governance and the Challenges of Sustainable Wastewater Management
VB Yeboah, AD Ablo, C Wrigley-Asante, SL Mensah
2026 The Journal of Environment & Development, 10704965261453783, 2026 Social Sciences 0
Compounding the peasant struggles: the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on Ghanaian farmers’ adaptation to climate change
AD Ablo, M Zaami, P Siakwah, RS Essien, JA Yaro
2025 The Journal of Modern African Studies 63 (2), 99-122, 2025 Natural Sciences 0