K.B. Antwi

University of Cape Coast | UCC · Department of Geography & Regional Planning

Transit Oriented Development (TOD) encourages densification around transport nodes with a combination of work, educational facilities, commercial activities and other essential services. Implementing TOD in Ghana would, however, be faced with several challenges. The systematic review approach, which is based on published scholarly works was adopted...

Transit Oriented Development (TOD) encourages densification around transport nodes with a combination of work, educational facilities, commercial activities and other essential services. Implementing TOD in Ghana would, however, be faced with several challenges. The systematic review approach, which is based on published scholarly works was adopted...

This study sought to investigate household solid waste separation practices in the Cape Coast Metropolis, Ghana. Specifically, the study examined previous and existing solid waste separation practices, challenges associated with household separation of solid waste and willingness of households to separate waste. Employing a descriptive research des...

The purpose of this paper is to assess the nature and extent of hand hygiene practices in the street food business in selected districts in Southern Ghana. Though street-vended foods have many health and socio-economic benefits, they often pose significant public health risk to consumers. Codex Alimentarius standards identify the hand of the vendor...

Many smallholder farmers in Jaman North District, Brong‐Ahafo Region, Ghana are shifting from food crop production to increased cultivation of cashew, an export cash crop. This paper examines gendered and generational tensions in increased commercialisation of land, livelihood diversification, and household food security in the context of globalisa...

The emergence of social cash transfers, including Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) scheme, in Ghana was due to the need to mitigate poverty. However, prior assessment studies focused on the entirety of the programmes, and not solely on assessing the utilisation of grants from such programmes. Consequently, this study examined the utili...

The study, investigates the nature of governance system around Lake Bosomtwe and its impact on the conservation of the freshwater resources. It also seeks to understand the structural process and contribution of local knowledge in freshwater conservation, which is a gap identified in freshwater governance. Data was based on residents' impact and in...

Social cash transfers as a strategy for poverty reduction acquired prominence in Latin America but spread later to the rest of the developing world because earlier poverty reduction strategies did not make many gains. Most studies on cash transfer schemes seem tilted towards evaluating their impacts while neglecting the arguments surrounding their...

The integration of geographic information systems (GIS) and agent-based models (ABMs) can be an efficient tool to improve spatial planning practices. This paper utilizes GIS and ABM approaches to simulate spatial growth patterns of settlement structures in Shama. A preliminary household survey on residential location decision-making choice served a...

The entrenched position now taken by participatory planning in urban planning practice has made the call for community participation in the planning process now higher than ever. Community participation has been well-acknowledged to give local people a voice in planning decisions. This paper assessed the level of participation by local people in th...

Agricultural land use in much of Brong-Ahafo region, Ghana has been shifting from the production of food crops towards increased cashew nut cultivation in recent years. This article explores everyday, less visible, gendered and generational struggles over family farms in West Africa, based on qualitative, participatory research in a rural community...

This study investigated the role performance and challenges of male single-parents in the Central Region of Ghana using a descriptive and evaluative survey approach. A multi-stage sampling procedure was adopted to select 300 male single-parents for the study. Pretested questionnaire and interview schedule were used to collect the data. The Statisti...

Assessment of shoreline change during a forty year period using historical and meteorological records was carried out on Lake Bosomtwe. The data for the study were gathered through the use of climatic data on precipitation, temperature and evaporation from the Ghana

Proliferation of informal settlements is a worldwide problem that confronts many cities in the world especially cities of developing countries. It destructs sustainable urban development of cities. This paper sought to explore the factors behind the growth of informal settlements in Kumasi, Ghana. The paper used explorative case study approach with...

We report on the effects of substrate, starting material, and temperature on the growth of MoS2 atomic layers by thermal vapor sulfurization in a tube-furnace system. With Mo as the starting material, atomic layers of MoS2 flakes are obtained on sapphire substrates while a bell-shaped MoS2 layer, sandwiched by amorphous SiO2, is obtained on native-...

Uniform and crack-free cubic Ga2S3 thin films have been epitaxially synthesized on n-GaAs (111) substrates by sulfurization. Atomic-force microscopy revealed that the Ga2S3 surface is dominated by nanoparticles of smaller than 50 nm in diameter. The nanoparticles, clustered into regular triangle structures that hierarchically packaged on GaAs, sign...

We report on unintentional carbon depositions induced by electron-beam irradiation on the surface of high-indium-content AlInN thin films in a scanning-electron microscope (SEM) chamber. With a beam voltage of 10 kV and a probe current of 160 mu A, a nano-scale dot evolves during a 5-min irradiation. By increasing the irradiation time, the dot grow...

This research aimed to investigate the implications of changing agricultural land use from food production towards increased cashew cultivation for food security and poverty alleviation in Jaman North District, Brong-Ahafo Region of Ghana. Based on qualitative, participatory research with a total of 60 participants, the research found that increase...

Women play significant roles in the society and their involvement in community planning and development are well appreciated by many international bodies. This paper sought to explore the contribution of female traditional leaders (queen mothers) to community planning and development which often tend to focus on their male counterparts (kings or ch...

Rural infrastructure provides essential production conditions such as telecommunication, roads, medical services and educational facilities which enhances development in a rural setting. It is therefore pertinent to assess the state of infrastructural development on the quality of life of the inhabitants of Jukwa. The study employed a descriptive s...

his explorative study examines how managers and executive directors regard the ethical and social responsibility reputations of some selected companies and how this in turn influences their attitudes and behaviours towards corporate social responsibility (CSR) practises. Sixty (60) respondents were surveyed to evaluate how ethical and socially resp...

Waste management as a social problem has neither spared the developed nor developing nations as statistics have proven that some developed nations are seriously grappling with this bane. The study therefore sought to assess the challenges and prospects associated with waste management practices of the inhabitants of Jukwa. It employed a descriptive...

The term social exclusion has been employed to explain a culmination of negative processes of social relations shaped by gender, spatial, economic, political, socio-economic, environmental and cultural circumstances and ideologies. Despite the economic gains Ghana has made since the fourth Republic, spatial and social segments of the Ghanaian socie...

High resolution X-ray diffractometry (HR-XRD), Photoluminescence, Raman spectroscopy, and Transmission electron microscope measurements are reported for GaN deposited on a conventional Si(111) substrate and on the {111} facets etched on a Si(100) substrate. HR-XRD reciprocal space mappings showed that the GaN(0002) plane is tilted by about 0.63° ±...

Atomically thin Mo1-xWxS2 (0 ≤ x ≤ 1) ternary compounds have been grown on 2-inch c-plane sapphire substrates with high uniformity by sulfurizing thin Mo1-xWx layers that were deposited at room temperature using a co-sputtering technique. Atomic force microscopy (AFM), Raman scattering, and optical absorbance spectroscopy (OAS) studies reveal that...

Climate change has been recognised as a key development issue in sub-Saharan Africa. This might be explained by the region's peculiar vulnerabilities that could be related to climate change. Climate change is expected to significantly affect food security, increase flooding and droughts in specific areas of the sub-region, affect the production of...

Natural resources have in many cases been found to be a curse to some nations that possess it instead of being a blessing. Civil wars, environmental and health hazards have been the outcome in many developing economies that are rich in different types of natural resources. This paper explores how some mining communities in Ghana have experienced de...

Informal settlements are among the major problems that confronts many cities in the world. Despite numerous efforts both at the international and local levels to address this problem, its existence keeps on rising. This paper used a theoretical approach to assess the growth of informal settlements in Kumasi, Ghana. It adapted the theory of Planned...

The impacts of Community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) projects are rarely independently evaluated through well-designed studies and only a few studies have employed the sustainable livelihood. This study used interviews and focus group discussions with local residents in three project communities within a framework of qualitative resea...

Environmental non-governmental organizations (ENGOs) became very prominent after the Rio Earth Summit in 1992 as vibrant social movements. Since then, ENGOs operat-ing at the local, regional, or global levels have been instrumental in environmental man-agement in both developed and developing countries. This study sought to investigate the perfor...

Over the past two decades, urban areas have been the centre of attraction for many individuals, industries and many activities for diverse reasons. This high interest has put much pressure on urban land development especially in the area of housing. Inadequate attention to urban land-use planning and practices coupled with rapid urbanisation has re...

This article investigates the difficulties associated with the sustainability of implementing donor supported public sector reform respecting human and institutional capacity building interventions in Ghana.It is based on an exploratory case study design; it triangulates both secondary and primary sources of data. Employing self-completing question...

Purpose – This paper draws on a recent case study in Ghana that explored the human resource development (HRD) challenges facing local government in a reforming public sector. It aims to investigate how public sector reform (PSR) has affected worker motivation and effectiveness among civil servants (bureaucrats) serving local government at all level...

This paper focuses on public sector management reform ‘best-practice’ case experience from Sub-Sahara African (SSA). Given that ‘best-practice’ is a relative concept and often debatable, the paper uses the Ghana Civil Service Performance Improvement Programme (GCSPIP) experience as rather a ‘good-practice’ case with the view to sharing the outcome...

Health Education is one of the critical eight essen tial pillars of the primary health care (PHC) adopt ed world-wide by WHO member countries in 1978. After over two decades of health education to support PHC implementation, th e epidemiological profile of Ghana continues to be dominated by communicable diseases, and environmental sanitation is p r...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore and try to understand the human side of public sector reform (PSR) in local government in Ghana in the context of the challenges facing human resource capacity building and development policies. Design/methodology/approach Adopting an exploratory case study design, the paper triangulates both seconda...

Purpose – This paper seeks to explore and understand the public sector reform (PSR) as it affects local governments in Ghana within the context of challenges facing human resource capacity building and development policies. Design/methodology/approach – Adopting an exploratory case study design, the research triangulated both secondary and primary...

Marine fishing is an important traditional economic activity of the coastal communities in Ghana and contributes over 80 per cent of the total fish catch. The traditional sector accounts for over 75 per cent of the marine catch. The small-scale artisanal marine fishing communities, which contribute less than 30 per cent of the traditional sector la...