News about Geography

New PhD Thesis

Prince Martin Gyekye's PhD thesis offers new insight into the impacts of floods on soil erosion and urban land use

Multiple Perspectives, Cultivating Communities: Reflections on the NEEDS 2022 Conference

Disaster Studies is a growing multidisciplinary field that continues to produce diverse – and often competing or contrasting – perspectives on how disasters are conceptualized and addressed. The Northern European…

"Build-in" flood risk

New Climaccess paper focuses on the intertwinement of unregulated urban expansion processes and flood risk

Earth’s many new lakes

The number of lakes on our planet has increased substantially in recent decades, according to a unique global survey of 3.4 million lakes that the University of Copenhagen has taken part in. There has been a particular…

Fieldwork and flooding

A round of follow-up interviews with residents are conducted in late November 2022

Encroachment upon ecologically sensitive areas intensifies flood hazards

Climaccess research uncovers the drivers and consequences of unregulated urban expansion processes.

New insight into women's mobility in Accra

Research by Climaccess participants contributes to book on Transport and Mobility Futures in Urban Accra

CLIMACCESS sessions at AAG 2023

Research results from the CLIMACCESS project will be presented and discussed at dedicated sessions at the AAG 2023 conference (March 23-27)

New Climaccess paper published

Fragile infrastructure and increased urban flooding create mobility disruptions for urban residents

Workshop in Accra

A CLIMACCESS workshop on the role of emergency response/responders during floods in Accra yielded new insight

New Paper on Flood Risk Vulnerability

New scientific paper out on flood risk vulnerability

290 million new city dwellers benefit China's climate balance

Contrary to popular belief, China’s massive emigration from rural areas to cities has been shown to have a positive effect on China's carbon stocks. Urbanization can even play a role in attaining climate neutrality. Thi…

Survey succesfully completed

The WP-A household mobility survey was conducted in July-August 2021 by a team of 10 persons led by Martin Oteng Ababio and Maya Møller-Jensen. The collected survey data include information on 1053 households and 2104…

New technical report - Processing of UAV data

A new report on methods for processing UAV-based Lidar and RGB data from Accra has been published on the website. Click to read.

New technical Report - GIS

New technical report on GIS methodology published on the web site. The report describes how to perform GIS-based analysis to estimate the importance of each road in facilitating the mobility of urban residents and,…

Four settlement profile reports have been completed

A collective effort to produce profile reports for the four selected settlements based on interviews, statistics, spatial data sets, field surveys and other sources has now been completed. Click to read more and access…

New detailed maps of city-wide flood risk

Extensive mapping of city-wide flood risk has been documented and published. The maps can now be explored from the web map portal.

New flood validation data collected in Adenta and Legon

Richard and Allotey collected additional data for evaluation of the local flood models in Adenta, Legon and Okponglo. Click to see maps and photos from the survey locations.

A mapping challenge: Decentralization and fragmentation of administrative regions characterize GAMA

As part of the ongoing effort to describe urban development in the four localities selected for the CLIMACCESS Survey, both South and North partners have been involved in the non-trivial task of mapping the…

Researchers put human mobility into new formula

Researchers at DTU and the University of Copenhagen have developed a model that provides new knowledge about how we move around in our everyday life and bridges a gap in the scientific understanding of mobility.

More ground truth data collected in Santa Maria

Members of the south partner teams conducted additional field work in Santa Maria for field validation of the UAV/LIDAR-based mapping of local, flood prone areas.

All project meetings are currently on zoom

Due to Corona restrictions, all project meetings take place on the virtual platform zoom for continued coordination and research collaboration.

CLIMACCESS survey tested at Legon

The south partners carried out a pilot test of the CLIMACCESS survey at the Legon Campus, University of Ghana. Click to read more and access the survey questions.

PhD study stays in Copenhagen

A planned period of three month study stay in Copenhagen for PhD students Abuba and Prince was extended to more than four and a half month (2. February - 19. June) due to the Corona lock-down. Click to read more.