Peri-urban land use pattern and its relation to land use planning in Ghana, West Africa

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 165, Issue , 2017, Pages 280-294

  Kleemann, Janina ^a,b   Inkoom, Justice Nana ^a,b   Thiel, Michael ^c   Shankar, Sangeetha ^d   Lautenbach, Sven ^e   Fürst, Christine ^f  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^f MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Confidence level analysis; Drivers; Interviews; Land tenure; Land use change; Population growth; Remote sensing; Urban development; Urban sprawl

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; LAND USE; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; POPULATION STATISTICS; REMOTE SENSING; TRUCK DRIVERS;

CONFIDENCE LEVELS; INTERVIEWS; LAND TENURE; LAND-USE CHANGE; POPULATION GROWTH; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN SPRAWL;

URBAN GROWTH;

EXPERT SYSTEM; LAND USE CHANGE; LAND USE PLANNING; PERIURBAN AREA; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL PLANNING; TEMPORAL VARIATION; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN SPRAWL;

GHANA; SEKONDI-TAKORADI; WESTERN REGION;

SUS;

EID: 85015705770     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2017.02.004     Document Type: Article

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