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Breaking News: University Of Ghana’s Popular Professor Yankson Reported Dead.

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The information reaching the desk of UrsTruly Praiz News has it that, University of Ghana’s popular professor Paul William Kojo Yankson is dead. Below are more about the great man.

Paul William Kojo YanksonProfessor (part-time)pyankson@ug.edu.gh

EDUCATION: 

1986          Post Graduate Diploma (Urban Survey) I.T.C. Enschede, The Netherlands. 
1980          Ph.D. (Regional Planning) University of Nottingham, U.K.  
1976          M.U.P. (Urban Planning) McGill University, Montreal, Canada. 
1973          B.A. (Hons. Geography) University of Ghana, Legon. 

AREA OF SPECIALISATION: Urban and Regional Development Planning 

COURSES TAUGHT CURRENTLY: 

GEOG 425: Industrial Location Theory and Practice 
GEOG 424: Industrialisation in Developing Countries 
GEOG 402: Techniques of Regional Science 
GEOG 625: Industrial Location Theory and Practice 
GEOG 605: Theories of Rural Development 
GEOG 626: Industrialisation in the Advanced and Developing Countries 
GEOG 606: Rural Development Policies and Experiences 

CURRENT RESEARCH

  • Interdisciplinary Study of Dam-Building in Ghana 2019-2021 DGRD, UG in Collaboration with Manchester University and Water Research Institute of CSIR, Ghana
  • Vulnerability to Extreme Weather Events in Cities: Implications for Infrastructure and Livelihoods (VEWEC): Research collaboration among Loughborough University, U.K; University of Ghana and University for Development Studies (UDS) September 2017-March 2019.
  • Climate Change Resilience in Urban Mobility, Accra, Ghana (Danida Fellowship Centre: R445-A31.887)-Collaborative Research between Department of Geoscience and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Department of Geography and Resource Development, University of Ghana and Institute for Scientific and Technological Information< Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Ghana: March 2018-Dec. 2022
  • Rural-Urban Connections in Africa: Case Studies of Ghana, Cameroon, Rwanda and Tanzania. This is a collaborative Research Project involving 4 African Universities, including University of Ghana and Nine Research Partner Universities (5 in Europe) and Funded by European Union (EU) 2012-2016
  • China Goes Global: A Comparative Study of Chinese Hydropower Dams in Africa and Asia. Funded by UK Economics and Social Research Council (ESRC), 2012-2015
  • Vulnerability of the Coastal Areas of Greater Accra to Climate-Change Induced Flooding-Funded by Danida-WANSEC Project, 2013-1014
  • Socio-economic Impact of Bui Dam Project on Downstream Non-Resettled Communities with K.Owusu and A.B. Asiedu, Funded by ORID, University of Ghana

SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS 

BOOKS

  1. Ardayfio-Schandorf, E.; P.W.K. Yankson ; M. Betrand (2012): The Mobile City of Accra: Urban Families, Housing and Residential Practices,  CODESRIA, Dakar,  ISBN: 978-2-86978-181-8,  288pp
  2. Owusu, G. S. Adjei-Mensah, P.W.K. Yankson and E.M. Attua (Eds): Readings in Geography. Essays in Commemoration of the 65th. Anniversary of University of Ghana (Social Science Series 1. Woeli Publishing Service, Accra; ISBN 978-9988-626-10-X pp 297

BOOK CHAPTERS

  1. Yankson, P.W.K. and A. Asase (2019): Climate Change and Forestry in Ghana in Adiku, S.G.K. (2019) (Ed): Climate Change: Variability and Biophysical Land Use in Ghana Afram Publications (Ghana) Ltd. Pp108-137. ISBN (10): 9964 70-590 5
  2. Paul W.K. Yankson, Kwadwo Owusu, and Alex B. Asiedu (2018): The Environmental and Social Governance of the Bui Dam Project in Ghana, in Giuseppina SiCiliano and Frauke Urban (Eds): Chinese Hydropower Development in Africa and Asia: Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainable Global Dam-Building, Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon and New York, PP 100-114
  3. George Owusu, Paul W.K. Yankson and Robert Darko Osei (2016): Youth Entrepreneurship in Ghana: Current Trends and Policies, in Katherine V. Gough and Tilde Langevang (eds): Young Entrepreneurs in Sub-Saharan Africa, Routledge, London, New York pp 32-48
  4. Paul W.K. Yankson and George Owusu (2016): Prospects and Challenges of youth Entrepreneurship in Nima-Mamobi, a Low-Income Neighbourhood of Accra, in in Katherine V. Gough and Tilde Langevang (eds): Young Entrepreneurs in Sub-Saharan Africa, Routledge, London, New York pp 94-109
  5. Paul W.K. Yankson and Katherine V. Gough (2014): Urban Low-income Housing in Ghana in Jan Bredenoord, Paul van Lindert and Peer Smets (Eds): Affordable Housing in the Urban Global South: Seeking Sustainable Solutions, Earthscan From Routledge, London, New York, Chapter 25 pp 381-394
  6. Paul W.K. Yankson (2010): ‘The Dynamics of the Gold Mining Industry and its Effects on Settlements and Livelihoods in the Wassa West District, Ghana’ in J. Agergaard, N. Fold and K Gough (eds), Rural Urban Dynamics: Livelihoods, Mobility and Markets in African and Asian Frontiers, London: Routledge pp175-188.
  7. Larsen M. N., P.Yankson and N. Fold (2009): ‘Does Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Create Linkages in Mining?: The Case of Gold Mining in Ghana’ in Andrew Sumner, Diego Sanchez-Ancochea, Eric Rugraff (eds): Transnational Corporations and Development Policy: Critical Perspectives (Palgrave Macmillan) p 247-273.

JOURNAL ARTICLES

  1. Lasse Moller-Jensen; Albert N. Allotey; Richard Y. Kofie; and Paul W.K. Yankson (2020): A Comparison of Satellite-Based Estimates of Urban Agglomeration Size for Accra Area, International Journal of Geo-Information, 9(2): https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi9020079
  2. Samuel, N.A. Codjoe; Katherine, V. Gough; Robert L. Wilby; Raymond Kasei; Paul W.K. Yankson; Ebenezer F. Amankwaa; Mercy Abarika; D. Yaw Atiglo; Sam Kayaga; Peter Mensah; Culbert K. Nabilse; Paula L. Griffiths (2020): Impact of Extreme weather Conditions on Healthcare Provision in Urban Ghana, Social Science & Medicine, 258 (2020) 113072
  3. Gough, K.V., Yankson, P.W.K., Wilby, R.L., Amankwaa, E., Abarike, M., Codjoe, S., Griffiths, P., Kaba, C., Kasei, R., and Kayaga, S. (2019). Vulnerability to extreme weather events in cities: implications for infrastructure and livelihoods. Journal of the British Academy, 7(s2): 155–181. DOI https://doi.org/10.5871/jba/007s2.155
  4. Yankson, P.W.K. Gough, K.V. (2019): Gold in Ghana: The Effects of Changes in Large-Scale Mining on Artisanal Small Scale Mining (ASM), Extractive Industries and Society: 6: 120-128
  5. Kwadwo Owusu, Ayisi Kofi Emmanuel, Issah Justice Musah-Surugu, Paul William Kojo Yankson,(2019). The effects of 2015 El Nino on smallholder maize production in the transitional ecologicalzone of Ghana, International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management, https://doi.org/10.1108/IJCCSM-02-2018-0014
  6. Katherine V. Gough, Thilde Langevang, Paul W. K. Yankson & George Owusu (2019): Shaping Geographies of Informal Education: A Global South Perspective, Annals of the American Association of Geographers, DOI: 10.1080/24694452.2019.1602466
  7. Justice Issah Musah-Surugu, Kwadwo Owusu, Paul William Kojo Yankson and Emmanuel Kofi Ayisi (2018): Mainstreaming Climate Change into Local Governance: Financing and Budgetary Compliance in Selected Local Governments in Ghana, Development in Practice, 28 (1), pp65-80
  8. Kwadwo Owusu, Alex Boakye Asiedu, Paul William Kojo Yankson, Yaw Agyeman Boafo (2018): Impact of Ghana’s Bui Dam Hydroelectricity Project on the Livelihood of Downstream Non-Resettled Communities. Sustainability Science: https://Doi.Org/10.1007/s11625-018-0588-8
  9. Gough, K. V.; Yankson P.W.K.; J. Esson (2018): Migration, Housing and Attachment in Urban Gold Mining Settlements, Urban Studies Doi: 10.1177/0042098018798536.
  10. Alex Barimah Owusu, Paul W.K. Yankson and Stephen Frimpong (2018): Smallholder Farmers’ Knowledge of Mobile Telephone Use: Gender Perspectives and Implications for Agricultural Market Development: Progress in Development Studies 18(1), pp 36-51
  11. Oteng-Ababio, M., Smout, I., and Yankson, P.W.K. (2017): Poverty Politics and Governance of Potable Water Services: The Core-Periphery Syntax in Metropolitan Accra, Urban Forum Doi: 10.1007/s 12132-017-9301-8
  12. Yankson, P.W.K., A.B. Asiedu, K. Owusu, F. Urban, G. Siciliano (2017): The Livelihood Challenges of Resettled Communities of the Bui Dam Project in Ghana and the Role of Chinese Dam-builders, Development Policy Review .
  13. Yankson, Paul W. K., Katherine V. Gough, James Esson & Ebenezer F. Amankwaa (2017): Spatial and Social Transformations in a Secondary City: The Role of Mobility in Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana, Geografisk Tidsskrift-Danish Journal of Geography, DOI: 10.1080/00167223.2017.1343672
  14. Paul William Kojo Yankson, Alex Barimah Owusu, George Owusu, John   Boakye-Danquah, Jacob Doku Tetteh (2017): Assessment of coastal communities’ vulnerability to floods using indicator-based approach: A case study of Greater Accra Metropolitan Area, Ghana. Natural Hazards, Vol 89(2), November, pp661-689
  15. Robert L. Afutu-Kotey, Katherine V. Gough and Paul W. K. Yankson (2017): Transitions to Adulthood among Young Entrepreneurs in the Informal Mobile Telephony Sector in Accra, Ghana, Geoforum 85, 290-298
  16. Kwadwo Owusu, Paul W.K. Yankson, Alex B. Asiedu and Peter B. Obuor (2017): Resource Utilisation Conflict in Downstream Non-Resettled Communities of the Bui Dam in Ghana, Natural Resource Forum, 41 pp 234-243
  17. Paul W.K. Yankson, Alex Barimah Owusu & Stephen (2016): Challenges and Strategies for Improving the Agricultural Marketing Environment in Developing Countries: Evidence from Ghana. Journal of Agricultural & Food Information, 17 (1), 49-69 Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, Doi: 10.1080/10496505.2015.1110030
  18. Esson, J., Gough, K.V., Simon, D., Amankwaa, E.F., Ninot, O. and Yankson, P.W.K. (2016) Livelihoods in motion: linking transport, mobility and income-generating activities, Journal of Transport Geography , 55: 182-188.
  19. Esson, J., Gough, K.V., Simon, D., Amankwaa, E.F., Ninot, O. and Yankson, P.W.K. (2016) Livelihoods in motion: linking transport, mobility and income-generating activities, Journal of Transport Geography , 55: 182-188.
  20. Langevang, T, Gough, KV, Yankson, PWK, Owusu, G, Osei, R (2015) Bounded Entrepreneurial Vitality: The Mixed Embeddedness of Female Entrepreneurship, Economic Geography, Vol. 91 (4) pp 449-473.
  21. Fold, Niels, Jesper, Bosse-Jønsson, Paul Yankson (2013). Buying into formalization? State Institutions and Interlocked Markets in African Small-scale Gold Mining. Futures, Vol. 01, (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2013.09.002)
  22. Katherine V. Gough and Paul W.K. Yankson (2012)” Exploring the Connections: Mining and Urbanisation in Ghana” Journal of Contemporary African Studies Vol 30 (4): pp 651-668
  23. K.V. Gough and P.W.K. Yankson (2011). A Neglected Aspect of the Housing Market: The Caretakers of Peri-Urban Accra, Ghana. Urban Studies, 48(4): 793-810, March
  24. Paul W.K. Yankson (2010). Gold Mining and Corporate Social Responsibility in the Wassa West District, Ghana. Development-in-Practice Vol. 20(3) pp 354-366
  25. Paul W.K. Yankson (2008). Decentralisation and Poverty Reduction in the Gomoa District of Ghana. Norwegian Journal of Geography, Vol. 62 (3) pp230-240
  26. Paul W.K. Yankson (2007). Street Trading and Environmental Management in Central Accra: Decentralisation and Metropolitan Governance in Ghana. Research Review 23 (1) pp 37-55
  27. Paul W.K. Yankson (2007). Decentralised Governance, Access to Social Services and Poverty Reduction in the Gomoa District, Ghana. International Development Planning Review (IDPR), Vol. 29(3) pp 233-266

May the soul of the great man rest in power.

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UG Profile Source:https://www.ug.edu.gh/geography/staff/paul-william-kojo-yankson

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