Assessing How Sustainability Is Promoted in Ghana’s National Urban Policy and Action Plan
Assessing How Sustainability Is Promoted in Ghana’s National Urban Policy and Action Plan
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评估加纳国家城市政策和行动计划如何促进可持续性
DOI：
10.3390/su12187556
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发表时间：
2020
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影响因子：
3.9
通讯作者：
R. Hill
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作者：
K. Anarfi;Chris Shiel;R. Hill
管理当代和未来的城市化以创造可持续的成果是全球公认的政策目标。然而，尽管越来越多的国家城市政策（NUPs）被采纳和实施，但很少有研究探讨这些政策如何在城市化背景下纳入和促进可持续性概念。本文对加纳城市政策中促进可持续发展的程度进行了批判性分析。我们审查了加纳的国家发展计划和支持性行动计划（AP），以确定其举措是否促进了可持续性。评估矩阵用于显示文件中的举措如何符合联合国人居署城市繁荣指数（CPI）中概述的城市可持续性维度；此外，还考虑了内容如何与世界银行《城市可持续发展框架》（USF）的维度保持一致。分析中出现的主要论点是，虽然加纳的国家发展计划和AP为促进城市可持续性提供了足够的范围和折衷的举措组合，但可持续性效益可能受到以下因素的破坏：(i)由于政策文件的新自由主义观点对包容性和社会可持续性的威胁；明确缺乏减贫战略；（三）缺乏环境绩效目标。为此，本文提出了一些建议，这些建议可能会在城市化背景下增强加纳NUP和AP的可持续性影响。
Managing contemporary and future urbanisation to create sustainable outcomes is a globally acknowledged policy goal. However, despite the increasing uptake and implementation of National Urban Policies (NUPs), little research has explored how these policies incorporate and promote sustainability as a concept in the context of urbanisation. This paper provides a critical analysis of the extent to which sustainability is promoted within urban policy in the context of Ghana. We review Ghana’s NUP and supporting Action Plan (AP) to determine whether their initiatives promote sustainability. An evaluation matrix is used to show how the initiatives in the documents align with the dimensions of urban sustainability outlined in the UN-Habitat’s City Prosperity Index (CPI); and in addition, consideration is given to how the contents align with the dimensions of the World Bank’s Urban Sustainability Framework (USF). The overarching argument that emerges from the analysis is that while Ghana’s NUP and AP provide adequate scope and an eclectic mix of initiatives that promote urban sustainability, the sustainability benefits are potentially undermined by factors which include: (i) threats to inclusivity and social sustainability due to the neo-liberal outlook of policy documents; (ii) explicit lack of a poverty reduction strategy; and (iii) lack of environmental performance targets. To this end, suggestions are provided that could potentially enhance the sustainability impacts of Ghana’s NUP and AP in the context of urbanisation.
影响因子：
11.4
作者：
Brauer, Michael;Amann, Markus;Burnett, Rick T.;Cohen, Aaron;Dentener, Frank;Ezzati, Majid;Henderson, Sarah B.;Krzyzanowski, Michal;Martin, Randall V.;Van Dingenen, Rita;van Donkelaar, Aaron;Thurston, George D.
通讯作者：
Thurston, George D.