2024

Abdul Somed, A., Adam, A.R. & Asibey, M.O. (2024). Rethinking the implications of sprawl to building sustainable secondary cities; case of Tamale, Ghana. Local Environment. https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2024.2330408

Eshun, M. & Asibey, M.O. (2024). Green streetism precarity in Kumasi, Ghana. Urban Governance. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ugj.2024.01.006

Poku-Boansi, M., Bosu, M., Amoako, C., Asibey, M.O., & Adom-Asamoah, G. (2024). Transport investments and the changing space economy in Kumasi, Ghana. Case Studies on Transport Policy 15 (2024) 101162. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cstp.2024.101162

Adarkwa, K.K., Asibey, M.O. & Tornyeviadzi, P. (2024). Urban planning responses to the tweaking of approved residential subdivisions by developers in urban Ghana: Case of Kodiekrom, Kumasi. Cities, 148, May 2024, 104909. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2024.104909

Asibey, M.O., Appiah-Kusi F., Kissiwaa, N.A., Bilson, M.A & Abdulai, A.J. (2024). Local multilevel governance arrangements for climate change planning and management in Kumasi, Ghana. Environmental Science & Policy, 153, March 2024, 103680. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103680

Asibey, M.O. (2024). Contextualizing Electronic Waste for Effective Management in Ghanaian Cities: Local perspectives and experience. In. Sunil Kumar (ed.) Electronic Waste Management: Policies, Processes, Technologies, and Impact. John Wiley & Sons, 24 Jan 2024 - Science - 368 pages. pp. 13-23.

Blija, D.K., Asibey, M.O., Ababio, P.N., Amponsah, O., Poku-Boansi, M. & Amoako, C. (2024). A view of migrant women's “right to the city” through the lens of translocality. Cities 146 (2024) 104722. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2023.104722

Appau, P.K., Asibey, M.O. & Grant, R. (2024). Enabling asset-based community development solutions: Pro-poor urban climate resilience in Kumasi, Ghana. Cities 145 (2024) 104723. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2023.104723

Poku-Boansi, M., Tuffour, J.P. & Asibey, M.O. (2024). A life-course approach to assessing residential mobility dynamics in selected immigrant communities in Kumasi, Ghana. Habitat International, 143 (January 2024), 102971. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.habitatint.2023.102971

Quagraine, V., Asibey, M.O. & Mosner-Ansong, K.F. (2024). Factors that influence user patronage and satisfaction of urban parks in Ghanaian cities: case of the Rattray Park in Nhyiaeso, Kumasi. Local Environment, 29(2), 224-244. https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2023.2282064

2023

Bimpong, F.K.A., Asibey, M.O. and Inkoom, D.K.B. (2023). Ghana’s recently introduced e-waste regulatory policy: A hope for a better e-waste sector? Waste Management & Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/0734242X231204457

Asibey, M.O., Asamoah, C.O., Yeboah, V., Poku?Boansi, M., Adutwum, I.O., Takyi, S.A. and Amponsah, O. (2023). Building resilience to food risks via green space planning in urban Ghana. SN Social Sciences (2023) 3:188. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43545-023-00777-6

Doe, B., Sarfo, A.K., Oduro, C.Y. & Asibey, M.O. (2023). Spatial assessment of intermediate urban towns in Ghana using geospatial technologies: a case study of urbanization and sustainability. SN Social Sciences, 3, 179 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s43545-023-00771-y

Liwur, S.B., Takyi, S.A., Asibey, M.O.* & Amponsah, O. (2023). Sustainable functional roles of ecologically sensitive areas in the Greater Kumasi Metropolis of Ghana: exploring local perceptions and attitudes from a socio?economic purview. Urban Ecosystems. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11252-023-01422-z

Appiah-Opoku, S., Manu, K.K., Asibey, M.O. & Amponsah, O. (2023). Tragedy of urban green spaces depletion in selected sub-Sahara African major cities. Journal of African Studies and Development, 15(3), 46-61. DOI: 10.5897/JASD2023.0682

Kaamah, A.F., Doe, B. & Asibey, M.O. (2023). Policy and practice: Stakeholders’ satisfaction with conventional and participatory land use planning in Ghana. Urban Governance. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ugj.2023.06.002

Cobbinah, P.B., Asibey, M.O., & Azumah, A.D. (2023). Urban forest and the question of planning-sustainability inadequacy. Cities, 140 (September 2023), 104453. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2023.104453

Amponsah, E., Poku-Boansi, M., Amoako, C. & Asibey, M.O. (2023). Transportation–Translocality Nexus in Sub?Saharan Africa and the Implications for Sustainable Livelihoods and Development: A Systematic Review. Transportation in Developing Economies (2023) 9:12. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40890-023-00182-x

Dosu, B., Asibey, M.O. & Abubakari, M. (2023). Cultural meanings of water to source water protection in rural Ghana. Sustainable Water Resources Management (2023) 9:92. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40899-023-00864-9

Asibey, M.O., Abdul-Salam, J.A., Dosu, B. & Tornyeviadzi, P. (2023). The future of e-waste in the circular economy of Ghana; implications for urban planning, environmental and human health risks In: Singh, P., Verma, P., Singh, R., Ahamad, A., Batalhão, A.C.S. (eds). Waste Management and Resource Recycling in the Developing World. Elsevier, Amsterdam, Netherland, pp. 309-325. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-90463-6.00012-9

Adjetey, L.D.., Takyi, S.A., Asibey, M.O. & Amponsah, O. (2023). The fate of urban green spaces: Assessment of the ownership, availability and conditions of parks in Accra, Ghana. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 82 (April 2023), 127897. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2023.127897

Asibey, M.O., Abdul-Salam, J.A, Iddrisu, Z., Blija, D.K., Adutwum, I.O., Tagnan, J.N., Kpeebi, Y. & Tornyeviadzi, P. (2023). Incremental housing and compliance with development control in urban Ghana. Journal of Urban Affairs, https://doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2022.2160337

Adu Boateng, E., Asibey, M.O., Cobbinah, P.B., Adutwum, I.O. & Blija, D.K. (2023). Enabling nature-based solutions: Innovating urban climate resilience. Journal of Environmental Management, 332 (2023), 117433. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2023.117433

Amponsah, E., Takyi, S.A., Asibey, M.O. & Amponsah, O. (2023). Achieving sustainable cities: analysis of the factors that influence compliance with telecommunication masts siting standards in Ghana. Urban, Planning and Transport Research 11(1), 2159511 https://doi.org/10.1080/21650020.2022.2159511

Ntim, J.A., Anokye, P.A. & Asibey, M.O. (2023). City Challenge: User Perception on the Governance and Quality of Parking Spaces in Central Business District of Kumasi, Ghana. Transport in Developing Economies, 9 (4), https://doi.org/10.1007/s40890-022-00174-3.

Asibey, M.O., King, R.S., Lykke, A.M., Inkoom, D.K.B & Darko, G. (2023). Workers perception of and coping with the health risks of informal electronic waste recycling in Ghana. Local environment, 28(3), 379-395. https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2022.2145601 

2022

Plange-Rhule, D., Asibey, M.O., Takyi, S.A. & Amponsah, O. (2022). Urban parks under siege: the politics and factors influencing park rezoning and decline in urban Ghana. Urban Governance. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ugj.2022.11.003

Asibey, M.O., King, R.S., Lykke, A.M., Inkoom, D.K.B & Darko, G. (2022). Workers perception of and coping with the health risks of informal electronic waste recycling in Ghana. Local environment. https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2022.2145601  

Yeboah, M., Adom-Asamoah, G., Asibey, M.O. and Poku-Boansi, M. (2022). The tussle for freight parking in seaport cities; the case of Tema. Case Studies on Transport Policy, 10(4), 2464-2475. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cstp.2022.11.012

Mensah, A.A., Adei, D., Kuubagr, G., Duah, S.O. and Asibey, M.O. (2022). Operation and sustainability of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) in schools: Evidence from a vulnerable and deprived area in Ghana, Cogent Public Health, 9:1, 2140478. https://doi.org/10.1080/27707571.2022.2140478

Asibey, M.O., Mintah, F., Adutwum, I.O., Wireko-Gyebi, R.S., Tagnan, J.N., Yevugah, L.L., Agyeman, K.O. and Abdul-Salam, J.A. (2022). Beyond rhetoric: urban planning-climate change resilience conundrum in Accra, Ghana. Cities 131 (2022) 103950. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2022.103950

Cobbinah P.B. & Asibey M.O. (2022) Urban Green Space in Accra’s Informal Settlements: Slum Residents’ Perceptions. Published by URBANET on July 28, 2022. https://www.urbanet.info/urban-green-space-in-accra/

Poku-Boansi, M., Asibey, M.O. & Azerigyik, R.A. (2022). Contextualising Urban Transport Systems and Livelihoods in Developing Countries: The case of Bus Rapid Transit project: In Nunan, F., Clare, B., & Sukanya, K. (Eds.). The Routledge Handbook on Livelihoods in the Global South (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003014041. 10 pages

Asibey M.O. & Cobbinah P.B. (2022) The Evidence for Climate Change on Our Planet. In: Brinkmann R. (eds). The Palgrave Handbook of Global Sustainability. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38948-2_23-1

Asibey, M.O., King, R.S., Lykke, A.M., Inkoom, D.K.B, & Wireko-Gyebi, R.S (2022). Informal electronic waste recycling in Ghanaian cities: environmental risks awareness and attitudes. SN Social Sciences, (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s43545-022-00419-3

Addaney, M., Akugudua, J.A., Asibey, M.O., Akaateba, M.A. & Kuusaanad, E.D. (2022). Changing land tenure regimes and women’s access to secure land for cocoa cultivation in rural Ghana. Land Use Policy, 20 (2022), 106292. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2022.106292

Hakeem, V., Takyi, S.A., Asibey, M.O. & Amponsah, O. (2022). From informal settlements to environmentally sustainable communities: Lessons from Kumasi. SN Social Sciences, (2022) 2:104. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43545-022-00402-y

Wireko-Gyebi, R.S., Asibey, M.O. & Baah-Ennumh, T.Y. (2022). Planning for the effective and sustainable management of Ghana’s artisanal small-scale gold mining industry. Resources Policy, 76 (2022) 102576. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resourpol.2022.102576

Adu-Gyamfi, A., Owusu-Addo, E., Inkoom, D.K.B. & Asibey, M.O. (2022). Peri-urban interface: An alternative residential location of low-income migrants in Kumasi, Ghana, Cities, 123 (2022) 103570. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2022.103570

Cobbinah, P.B., Asibey, M.O., Boakye, A.A. & Addaney, M. (2022). The myth of urban poor climate adaptation idiosyncrasy. Environmental Science and Policy 128 (2022) 336–346 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2021.12.008

2021

Adu-Gyamfi, A., Poku-Boansi, M., Darpoh, L., Asibey, M.O. & Owusu-Ansah, J.K. (2021). Rainfall challenges and strategies to improve housing construction in Sub-Saharan Africa: the case of Ghana, Housing Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2021.2014412

Adom-Asamoah, G., Asibey, M.O. & Nyarko, S. (2021). Rethinking or Affirming the “Affordability” Debate on the Efficiency of Urban Public Transport Usage: Case of Kumasi, Ghana. Transport in Developing Economies, 7 (2). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40890-021-00131-6

Addaney, M., Asibey, M.O., Cobbinah, P.B. & Akudugu, A.J. (2021). Climate change in rural Ghana: perceptions and adaptive responses. Local Environment, https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2021.1978411

Amponsah, E., Takyi, S.A., Asibey, M.O. & Amponsah, O. (2021). Assessing the level of compliance of telecommunication masts to locational planning standards towards harmonious and orderly city growth. Cities and Health, https://doi.org/10.1080/23748834.2021.1956837  

Adom-Asamoah, G., Asibey, M.O. & Nyarko, S. (2021)/ Rethinking or Affirming the “Affordability” Debate on the Efficiency of Urban Public Transport Usage: Case of Kumasi, Ghana. Transport in Developing Economies, 7, 22 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40890-021-00131-6

Asibey, M.O., Poku-Boansi, M. & Adutwum, I.O. (2021). Residential segregation of ethnic minorities and sustainable city development. Case of Kumasi, Ghana. Cities, 116 (103297). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2021.103297

Cobbinah, P.B., Asibey, M.O., Zuneidu, M.A. & Erdiaw-Kwasie, M.O. (2021). Accommodating green spaces in cities: perceptions and attitudes in slums. Cities 111 (2021), 103094. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2020.103094

Cobbinah, P.B., Asibey, M.O., & Gyau, N.B. (2021). Resonating the ‘culture’ debate in urban planning. City, Culture and Society. 100269 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ccs.2020.100369

Asibey, M.O., Ocloo, K.A. & Amponsah, O. (2021). Gender differences and productive use of energy fuel in Ghana’s rural non-farm economy. Energy. 215 (Part B), 15 January 2021, 119068. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2020.119068

Asibey, M.O., King, R.S., Lykke, A.M. & Inkoom, D.K.B. (2021). Urban Planning trends on electronic waste management in Ghanaian cities. Cities, 108 (2021), 102943. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2020.102943

2020

Wireko-Gyebi, R.S., Asibey, M.O., Amponsah, O., King, R.S., Braimah, I., Darko, G. & Lykke, A.M. (2020). Perception of Small-Scale Miners on Interventions to Eradicate Illegal Small-Scale Mining in Ghana. SAGE Open (2020) 10(4). https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244020963668

Cobbinah, P.B., Asibey, M.O., & Gyedu-Pensang, Y.A. (2020). Urban land use planning in Ghana: Navigating complex coalescence of land ownership and administration. Land Use Policy, 99 (2020), 105054 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.105054

Niine, S.N., Takyi, S.A., Asibey, M.O. & Amponsah, O. (2020). Garden City without parks: An assessment of the availability and conditions of parks in Kumasi. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening. 55 (2020) 126819. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2020.126819

Asibey, M.O., Lykke, A.M. & King, R.S. (2020). Understanding the factors for increased informal electronic waste recycling in Kumasi, Ghana. International Journal of Environmental Health Research. https://doi.org/10.1080/09603123.2020.1755016

Asibey, M.O., Agyeman, K.O., Amponsah, O. & Ansah, T. (2020). Patterns of land use, crop and forest cover change in the Ashanti Region, Ghana. Journal of Sustainable Forestry, 39(1), 35-60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10549811.2019.1608453

2019

Yeboah, V. & Asibey, M.O. (2019). Transport and historical changes in Kumasi’s growth and form. Case Studies on Transport Policy, 7 (4), 802–813. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cstp.2019.08.001

Asibey, M.O., Dosu, B. & Yeboah, V. (2019). The roles and attitudes of urbanites towards urban water insecurity. Case of the New Juaben Municipality, Ghana. Sustainable Water Resources Management, 5(4), 2023-2036.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s40899-019-00349-8

Takyi, S.A., Amponsah, O., Asibey, M.O. & Ayambire, R. (2019). An Overview of Ghana’s Educational System and its Implication for Educational Equity. International Journal of Leadership in Education, 24(2), 157-182. https://doi.org/10.1080/13603124.2019.1613565

Asibey, M.O., Abubakari, M. & Peprah, C. (2019). Vulnerability and urban farming: Coping with price volatility in Ejisu-Juaben Municipality, Ghana. Cogent Food & Agriculture, 5(1), 1-20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23311932.2019.1594504

Cobbinah, P.B., Asibey, M.O., Opoku-Gyamfi, M. & Peprah, C. (2019). Urban planning and climate change in Ghana. Journal of Urban Management, 8(2), 261-271.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jum.2019.02.002

Cobbinah, P.B., Amoako, C. & Asibey, M.O. (2019). The changing face of Kumasi Central, Ghana. Geoforum, 101 (2019), 49–61. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2019.02.023

Asibey, M.O., Yeboah, V., Poku-Boansi, M. & Bamfo, C. (2019). Exploring the use, behaviour and role of urbanites towards management and sustainability of Kumasi Rattray Park, Ghana. Journal of Urban Management 8 (2), 182-194. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jum.2018.12.003

Asibey, M.O., Amponsah, O. & Yeboah, V. (2019). Solid Waste Management in Informal Urban Neighbourhoods. Occupational Safety and Health Practices among Tricycle Operators in Kumasi, Ghana. International Journal of Environmental Health Research, 29(6), 702-717. https://doi.org/10.1080/09603123.2019.1569211

2018

Asibey, M.O., Adabor, E. & Yeboah, V. (2018). Palm Biomass Waste as Supplementary Source of Electricity Generation in Ghana: Case of the Juaben Oil Mills. Energy & Environment, 29(2), 165–183. https://doi.org/10.1177/0958305X17744079

2017

Asibey, M.O., Agyeman, K.O. & Yeboah, V. (2017). Cultural Values and Development of the Cultural Industry: Case of the Kente Textile Industry in Adanwomase of the Kwabre East District, Ghana. Journal of Human Values, 23(3), 200-217. https://doi.org/10.1177/0971685817713282

2016

Braimah, I., Amponsah, O. & Asibey, M.O. (2016). The effectiveness of the local management systems of rural water facilities for sustainable service delivery: a case study of the Sekyere East District, Ghana. Sustainable Water Resources Management, 2(4), 405-418. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40899-016-0070-7