Emerging Urban System Demographic Trends in Ghana

The Georgetown University Urban Health Collaborative invites you to a lecture:
 
Emerging Urban System Demographic Trends in Ghana

Many Sub-Saharan governments – including Ghana – have responded to urban challenges by developing national urban policies (NUP).  This presentation considers emerging urban-system demographic trends in Ghana.  Dr. Codjoe will locate the analyses at the nexus of the relationship between urbanization and societal imperatives.  

What demographic trends have emerged in Ghana’s urban system since independence?  

Which urban localities grew rapidly, stagnated, or declined, and why?  

Is a city-region emerging in Ghana?  

Dr. Codjoe will conclude by suggesting ways in which findings can inform Ghana’s NUP.

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Samuel Nii Ardey Codjoe, PhD, is Professor of Population Studies and Director of the Regional Institute for Population Studies (RIPS), University of Ghana, Legon.
 
Codjoe has published extensively on population-environment nexus, migration, fertility, and climate change/variability and its impact on urban and rural livelihoods.  He is currently the Principal Investigator of the Deltaic Environments, Vulnerability and Climate Change: The Role of Migration as an Adaptation and its Policy Implications (DECCMA) Ghana Project, sponsored by the International Development Research Centre of Canada.
 
Codjoe earned his Ph.D. in Geography and Soil Science from the University of Bonn (Germany), MPhil in Human Geography from the University of Oslo (Norway), and B.A. in Geography and Resource Development from the University of Ghana.  He is a member of the Population Association of America as well as the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population.  Codjoe serves as President of the Union for African Population Studies.