Toward Integration: Managing the Divergence Between National Climate Change Interventions and Urban Planning in Ghana
Abstract
Climate change issues have progressively been integrated into national development and policy frameworks in Ghana. The National Development Planning Commission, using guidelines for preparing medium-term development plans, encourages district, municipal, and metropolitan assemblies to give "special considerations" to climate change issues in their plan preparation processes. Consequently, this chapter explores the extent to which climate change issues have been integrated into urban development plans in Ghana. Using the Kumasi metropolis, the chapter compares national development documents with four urban development plans for the metropolis to establish convergence or divergence in climate change issues and interventions.
Publication Title
Smart, Resilient and Transition Cities: Emerging Approaches and Tools for A Climate-Sensitive Urban Development
Recommended Citation
Diko, S. (2018). Toward Integration: Managing the Divergence Between National Climate Change Interventions and Urban Planning in Ghana. Smart, Resilient and Transition Cities: Emerging Approaches and Tools for A Climate-Sensitive Urban Development, 141-151. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-811477-3.00018-3
