Urbanisation, land use and soil resource: spatio-temporal analyses of trends and environmental effects in two metropolitan regions of Ghana (West Africa)

Abstract

With more than half of the world's population already urbanised, global sustainability is partly hinged on how the urbanisation process is impacting the natural environment. Therefore, it is important to characterise, understand, and monitor the physical manifestation and interaction between the urbanisation process and environmental resources, in order to inform sustainable urban growth and land management strategies. Such information is especially important for urban regions in Asia and Africa, which have, in recent years, become hotspots of urbanisation. In many metropolitan regions of A...