Resource Hub

This section is aimed to serve as a resource hub for sharing digital literature and other project-related materials to inform and update stakeholders interested in extreme heat in general and specifically our project. Materials in the library cover scientific articles and reports as well as news and policy briefs on extreme heat, and other relevant research projects’ outputs.

What do we know about extreme urban heat in Africa?

Harrington, L.J. and F.E.L. Otto, Reconciling theory with the reality of African heatwaves. Nature Climate Change, 2020. 10(9): p. 796-798.

Koranteng, C., B. Simons, and D. Nyame-Tawiah. 2019. “Green to Grey: An Urban Heat Assessment of Kumasi, Ghana”.

Biney, Ernest, et al. “Analyzing the spatio-temporal pattern of urban growth and its influence on urban heat islands in the Sekondi-Takoradi metropolis, Ghana.” Scientific African 26 (2024): e02366.

What are the impacts?

Kayaga, Sam M., et al. “Cities and extreme weather events: impacts of flooding and extreme heat on water and electricity services in Ghana.” Environment and Urbanization 33.1 (2021): 131-150.

Codjoe, Samuel NA, et al. “Impact of extreme weather conditions on healthcare provision in urban Ghana.” Social science & medicine 258 (2020): 113072.

Wemegah, Cosmos S., et al. “Assessment of urban heat island warming in the greater accra region.” Scientific African 8 (2020): e00426

What are the general responses?

Wong, Nyuk Hien, et al. “Greenery as a mitigation and adaptation strategy to urban heat.” Nature Reviews Earth & Environment 2.3 (2021): 166-181.

N-yanbini, N. N. “Governing Urban Green Spaces in the Context of Climate Change in Ghana.” Climate Change in Africa: Adaptation, Resilience, and Policy Innovations. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023. 157-182.

Cobbinah, Patrick Brandful, et al. “Urban planning and climate change in Ghana.” Journal of Urban Management 8.2 (2019): 261-271.

Maladaptation to extreme urban heat:

How can adaptation responses reinforce existing urban inequalities and climate vulnerabilities?

Schipper, E. Lisa F. “Maladaptation: when adaptation to climate change goes very wrong.” One Earth 3.4 (2020): 409-414.

Reckien, Diana, et al. “Navigating the continuum between adaptation and maladaptation.” Nature climate change 13.9 (2023): 907-918.

Cobbinah, Patrick Brandful, et al. “The myth of urban poor climate adaptation idiosyncrasy.” Environmental Science & Policy 128 (2022): 336-346.

Puplampu, Dzifa Adimle, and Yaw Agyeman Boafo. “Exploring the impacts of urban expansion on green spaces availability and delivery of ecosystem services in the Accra metropolis.” Environmental Challenges 5 (2021): 100283.

Cucca, Roberta, Michael Friesenecker, and Thomas Thaler. “Green gentrification, social justice, and climate change in the literature: conceptual origins and future directions.” Urban planning 8.1 (2023): 283-295.