Books: Edited Volume
1. Diko, S.K., Okyere, S. A., Mensah, S. L., & Frimpong, L. K. (Eds.). (2025). Planning for Resilient Small and Medium-Sized Cities in Ghana (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003641612
2. Okyere, S. A., Diko, S.K., Frimpong, L. K., Abunyewah, M., & Mensah, S. L. (Eds.). (2025). Routledge Handbook of Resilient Urban Planning for Small and Medium-Sized Cities (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003588801
Journal Articles: Peer Reviewed
3. Frimpong, L. K., Mensah, S. L., Okyere, S. A (2025). Decolonizing urban climate-resilience strategies in African informal settlements. Nature Cities, https://doi.org/10.1038/s44284-025-00344-5
4. Frimpong, L. K., Mensah, S. L., Okyere, S. A., Gbedemah, S. F., Kwang, C., & Boateng, F. G. (2025). “We are not the ones to blame”: Stakeholders’ conflicting rationalities in wetlands management in Ghana. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space. https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486251386254
5. Nieto-Combariza, M., Galeano, V., Mensah, S. L., Frimpong, L. K., Okyere, S. A. & Oviedo, D. (2025). Self-Built Infrastructure Interventions to (Un)Walkable Streets: Pedestrian Accessibility, Safety and Enjoyment in a Neighbourhood in Accra. Cities, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2025.105911
6. Okyere, S. A., Frimpong, L. K., Mensah, S. O., Mensah, S. L., Gbedemah, S. F., Kwang, C., & Abunyewah, M. (2025). Urban transition and environmental risks in overlooked small and medium-sized towns: implications for (un)sustainable futures in Africa. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/09640568.2025.2466593
7. Mensah, S. L., Okyere, S. A., Frimpong, L.K., Asiedu, A. B., Zaami, M. & Abunyewah, M. (2025). Secondary cities at the residential housing frontier: Examining the determinants of private renters’ residential satisfaction in Ghana. Habitat International, 155, 103234. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103234
8. Tumawu, A. F., Kafu, Y. G., Yiran, G. A. B. & Frimpong, L. K (2024). Assessment of coastal flood risk scenarios on infrastructure in the Keta municipality in Ghana using a GIS approach. Heliyon, 10(21), e39824, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e39824
9. Diko, S. K., Okyere, S. A., Frimpong, L. K., Mensah, S. L., Abunyewah, M. & Amankwaa, G. (2024). A tale of two disasters: Unpacking how social learning from the Ebola epidemic shaped COVID-19 response in informal settlements in Freetown. Risk, Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy, https://doi.org/10.1002/rhc3.12319.
10. Angmor, E., Frimpong, L.K., Mensah, S. L & Okyere, S. A. (2024). Exploring the institutional barriers to rural water management in Ghana. Water Policy, 26 (9): 921–940. https://doi.org/10.2166/wp.2024.130
11. Frimpong, L.K., Mensah, S. L. & Ablo, A. D. (2024). Households’ access and expenditure on water services: Examining intra-urban differences in the Accra metropolis, Ghana. Urban Governance, 4(3): 222-231.doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ugj.2024.07.002
12. Frimpong, L.K., Mensah, S. L., Angmor, E., Gbedemah, S. F. & Okyere, S. A. (2024). Experiential learning as community engagement: Exploring the experiences of undergraduate students in an African university. Societal Impact, DOI:10.1016/j.socimp.2024.100064
13. Okyere, S. A, Frimpong, L. K., Boateng, G. F., Mensah, S. L., Oviedo, D., Abunyewah, M. & Kita, M. (2024). Walking cities that are (un)walkable: exploring everyday lived realities in low-income neighbourhoods in Accra. Transportation, DOI: 10.1007/s11116-024-10503-7
14. Gbedemah, S. F., Gbeasor, A, A., Hosu-Porbley, G, S., Frimpong, L, K., Amfo-Out, R., Adonu, S. & Doe, E. K. (2024). Analysis of heavy metals and pathogen levels in vegetables cultivated using selected water bodies in urban areas of the Greater Accra Metropolis of Ghana. Heliyon, 10(7) e27924, DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e27924
15. Alsherfawi A.A., Okyere, S.A., Mensah, S.L., Abunyewah, M., Frimpong, L.K. & Kita, M. (2024). “Towards a socially sustainable built environment: a comparative assessment of urban neighbourhoods in Istanbul. Smart and Sustainable Built Environment, https://doi.org/10.1108/SASBE-11-2023-0372
16. Okyere, S. A, Abunyewah, M., Addai, J., Mensah, S. L., Frimpong, L. K. & Kwang, C. (2024). Faith-based organisations and disaster management in informal urban Accra. Environmental Hazards, 23(5), 482–505, DOI:10.1080/17477891.2024.2333738
17. Ziorklui, B. E. A., Okyere, S. A, Abunyewah, M., Mensah, S. L. & Frimpong, L. K. (2024). Social capital and community-driven development: A multi-group analysis of migrant and indigenous informal settlements in Greater Accra, Ghana. Habitat International, 145(3):103016, DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2024.103016
18. Frimpong, L. K., Mensah, S. L., Okyere, S. A., Abunyewah, M., Diko, S. & Amankwaa, G. (2024). Assessing differential socio‑demographic impacts of the COVID‑19 pandemic on urban livelihood capitals in suburban Accra, Ghana. Socio-Ecological Practice Research 6, 69–86, https://doi.org/10.1007/s42532-023-00173-7
19. Okyere, S. A, Frimpong, L. K., Oviedo, D., Mensah, S. L., Fianoo, N. I., Nieto M. J., Abunyewah, M., Adkins, A. & Kita, M. (2024). Policy-Reality Gaps in Africa’s walking cities: Contextualising institutional perspectives and residents’ lived experiences of walking in Accra. Journal of Urban Affairs, DOI: 10.1080/07352166.2023.2296105
Book chapters
20. Frimpong, L. K., Okyere, S. A., Mensah, S. L. & Tumawu, F. A. (2025). Environmental Resilience Planning in Overlooked Small Towns: Examining Temporalities and Structural Challenges in Access to Water and Sanitation in Yilo Krobo Municipality, Ghana. In S. A. Okyere, S. K. Diko, L. K. Frimpong, M. Abunyewah, & S. L. Mensah (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Resilient Urban Planning for Small and Medium-Sized Cities (Chapter 4, pp. –). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003588801-20
21. Frimpong, L. K., Okyere, S. A., & Diko, S. K., Abunyewah, M., Mensah, S. L., (2025). Conclusion: Resilient futures for small and medium-sized cities: A way forward. In S. A. Okyere, S. K. Diko, L. K. Frimpong, M. Abunyewah, & S. L. Mensah (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Resilient Urban Planning for Small and Medium-Sized Cities (pp. –). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003588801-35
22. Okyere, S. A., Diko, S. K., Frimpong, L. K., Abunyewah, M. & Mensah, S. L. (2025). Introduction: Valorizing the resilience of small and medium-sized cities. In S. A. Okyere, S. K. Diko, L. K. Frimpong, M. Abunyewah, & S. L. Mensah (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Resilient Urban Planning for Small and Medium-Sized Cities (pp. ix-xxi). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003588801-1
23. Francis Gbedemah, S., Frimpong, L. K., Leonard Mensah, S., & Amenyogbe, G. K. (2025). “3: Sea level rise and climate change adaptation planning in coastal West Africa”. In Handbook on Planning and Climate Change Adaptation. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing. Retrieved Aug 27, 2025, from https://doi.org/10.4337/9781803926926.00009
24. Atubiga, J. A., Frimpong, L. K., Atubiga, B. A., Donkor, E. (2025). Rethinking innovative strategies for building livelihood and climate resilience in small towns in Northern Ghana. In: Diko, S.K., Okyere, S. A., Mensah, S. L., & Frimpong, L. K. (Eds.). Planning for Resilient Small and Medium-Sized Cities in Ghana (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003641612
25. Donkor, E., Atubiga, J. A., Frimpong, L. K. & Atubiga, B. A. (2025). Livelihood changes and their implications on resilience building in upstream communities of the Akosombo Dam in Ghana. In: Diko, S.K., Okyere, S. A., Mensah, S. L., & Frimpong, L. K. (Eds.). Planning for Resilient Small and Medium-Sized Cities in Ghana (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003641612
26. Mensah, J. D. & Frimpong, L. K. (2025). Building Sustainable Futures through Resilient Healthcare Systems in Small Towns in Ghana. In: Diko, S.K., Okyere, S. A., Mensah, S. L., & Frimpong, L. K. (Eds.). Planning for Resilient Small and Medium-Sized Cities in Ghana (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003641612
27. Mensah, S. L., Diko, S. K., Okyere, S. A. & Frimpong, L. K. (2025). Conclusion: Toward Resilient Small and Medium-Sized Cities—Planning Implications for Africa and Beyond. In: Diko, S.K., Okyere, S. A., Mensah, S. L., & Frimpong, L. K. (Eds.). Planning for Resilient Small and Medium-Sized Cities in Ghana (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003641612
28. Diko, S.K., Okyere, S. A., Mensah, S. L., & Frimpong, L. K. (2025). Introduction: From Large to Small and Medium-Sized Cities—Shifting the Analytical and Policy Gaze on Urban Resilience in Ghana. In: Diko, S.K., Okyere, S. A., Mensah, S. L., & Frimpong, L. K. (Eds.). Planning for Resilient Small and Medium-Sized Cities in Ghana (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003641612
29. Gbedemah, S.F., Amenyogbe, G.K., Frimpong, L.K., Mensah, L.S. (2024). The Impact of Tidal Waves on Coastal Communities and the Resilient Strategies of People Around Keta and Anloga Communities in Ghana. In: Aigbavboa, C., et al. Sustainable Education and Development—Clean Energy. ARCA 2023. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-65357-5_25
30. Mensah, S.L., Okyere, S.A., Frimpong, L.K., Abunyewah, M., Gbedemah, S.F. (2024). Making the Digital Economy Circular: End-of-Life Treatment of Digital Products and Their Implications for Sustainable Management of E-Waste in African Cities. In: Ertz, M., Tandon, U., Sun, S., Torrent-Sellens, J., Sarigöllü, E. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Sustainable Digitalization for Business, Industry, and Society. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-58795-5_15
31. Mensah, S. L., Frimpong, L. K., Okyere, S. A., Gbedemah, S. F. & Abunyewah, M. (2024). Circular Economy in Africa’s Informal Cities: A Review of Residents’ Value Retention Practices and Their Implications for Participatory Urban Planning. In Okyere, S. A., Abunyewah, M., Erdiaw-Kwasie, M.O., Boateng, F.G. (eds). Urban Slums and Circular Economy Synergies in the Global South. Advances in 21st Century Human Settlements (pp.113–129). Springer, Singapore.
32. Frimpong, L. K., Mensah, S. L. & Okyere, S. A. (2024). Closing the Policy-Implementation Gaps in E-Waste Management: Implications for Circular Economy and Sustainability in Urban Ghana. In Okyere, S. A., Abunyewah, M., Erdiaw-Kwasie, M.O., Boateng, F.G. (eds). Urban Slums and Circular Economy Synergies in the Global South. Advances in 21st Century Human Settlements (pp. 173-191). Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-9025-2_10
Other publications targeting non-academic audience
33. Okyere, S.A., Frimpong, K.L., Abunyewah, M., Mensah, S. O. & Mensah, S.L. (2025). Small towns are growing fast across Ghana – but environmental planning isn’t keeping up. The Conversation, June, https://theconversation.com/small-towns-are-growing-fast-across-ghana-but-environmental-planning-isnt-keeping-up-257766
34. Okyere, S.A., Oviedo, D., Frimpong, K.L., Nieto, M., Abunyewah, M., Mensah, S.L. (2025). Accra is a tough city to walk in: how city planners can fix the problem. The Conversation, April, https://theconversation.com/accra-is-a-tough-city-to-walk-in-how-city-planners-can-fix-the-problem-253636
35. Frimpong, K.L., Duker, R. Q., Boadu, E. S., Quarshie, A. M. K. & Annin, F. (2024). Ghana’s floods provide valuable lessons for future flood disaster planning. PreventionWeb, October, https://www.preventionweb.net/drr-community-voices/ghanas-floods-provide-valuable-lessons-future-flood-disaster-planning
36. Okyere, S.A., Frimpong, K.L., Mensah, S.L. (2024). Ghana’s informal settlements are not all the same – social networks make a difference in community development. The Conversation, October, https://theconversation.com/ghanas-informal-settlements-are-not-all-the-same-social-networks-make-a-difference-in-community-development-239133
37. Okyere, S.A., Oviedo, D., Frimpong, K.L., Abunyewah, M., Mensah, S.L. (2024) Walking in African cities can be a Miserable Experience – Accra Study Shows Planners Ignore Needs of Pedestrians. https://theaccratimes.com/walking-in-african-cities/
38. Okyere, S.A., Frimpong, L.K, Abunyewah, M., Diko, S. K. (2023) Accra’s most vulnerable residents were failed during COVID – the government didn’t understand their realities. The Conversation, August https://theconversation.com/accras-most-vulnerable-residents-were-failed-during-covid-thegovernment-didnt-understand-their-realities-211300
