2020
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.105054
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Urban land use planning in Ghana: Navigating complex coalescence of land ownership and administration

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“…Land use planning strategy, which is a deliberate process of defining land for various uses to balance social, economic, and environmental goals [1,2], is an approach for improving urban and environmental sustainability [3][4][5][6]. In this context, environmental sustainability is a condition for meeting the needs of current and future generations without jeopardizing the current and future health of natural ecosystems [7].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Land use planning strategy, which is a deliberate process of defining land for various uses to balance social, economic, and environmental goals [1,2], is an approach for improving urban and environmental sustainability [3][4][5][6]. In this context, environmental sustainability is a condition for meeting the needs of current and future generations without jeopardizing the current and future health of natural ecosystems [7].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Socio-ecological idealism indicates to environmental assessment the holistic value and socio-environmental visions for the desired future in the evaluation of options in strategic planning [41]. Therefore, environmental assessment and land use planning can be used to improve urban and regional environmental sustainability [1,[3][4][5][6]19,[29][30][31][32][33]. While land use planning focuses on the spatial arrangement of land use, environmental assessment can be used to: reduce the environmental risk of the plan; streamline the project action of the plan; faster plan approval; and better plan implementation [36] that reflects socio-ecological idealism in land use planning.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Second, land subdivision processes and emerging residential developments in soon-to-be urban areas unfold under customary land tenure systems meant for the administration of rural land. In Accra and other Ghanaian cities, land-use management and spatial planning is the jurisdiction of metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies (Owusu 2015;Cobbinah et al 2020). In practice, land subdivision processes are often allowed to proceed largely unregulated and unguided by spatial plans, as explained by a municipal assembly member in New Legon:…”
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“…En términos globales, la expansión constante de las políticas y planes urbanos sobre espacios indígenas ha provocado una serie de tensiones. Entre estas, destacan el juego simbólico de inclusión y exclusión que enfrentan muchos de los habitantes de estas zonas en América Latina, motivo por el cual deben pensar constantemente su etnicidad y las propias nociones de comunidad (Herrera, 2018); así también, los problemas de administración y gestión de estas tierras -fruto de la ausencia de títulos de propiedad y políticas de planificación, en países como Australia (Wilson et al, 2018)-; y, por último, el poder parcial que ejercen las autoridades tradicionales en estas áreas, debido al rol preponderante que, en concreto, tienen las instituciones gubernamentales de algunos países africanos en su gestión (Brandful, Osei y Asuama, 2020).…”
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