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Oiling the Urban Economy

Franklin Obeng-Odoom
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      This book presents a critical analysis of the ‘resource curse’ doctrine and a review of the international evidence on oil and urban development to examine the role of oil on property development and rights in West Africa’s new oil metropolis - Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana. It seeks answers to the following questions: In what ways did the city come into existence? What changes to property rights are oil prospecting, explorations, and production introducing in the 21st century? How do the effects vary across different social classes and spectrums? To what extent are local and national institutions able to shape, restrain, and constrain trans-national oil-related accumulation and its effects on property in land, property in housing (residential, leisure, and commercial), and property in labour? How do these processes connect with the entire urban system in Ghana? This book shows how institutions of varying degrees of power interact to govern land, housing, and labour in the city, and analyses how efficient, sustainable, and equitable the outcomes of these interactions are. It is a comprehensive account of the tensions and contradictions in the main sectors of the urban economy, society, and environment in the booming Oil City and will be of interest to urban economists, development economists, real estate economists, Africanists and urbanists.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Franklin Obeng-Odoom EAN: 9780415744096 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 630 g HEIGHT: 234 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Taylor & Francis Ltd DATE PUBLISHED: 2014-06-05 CITY: GENRE: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Real Estate / General, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Construction / General WIDTH: 156 cm SPINE:

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      Development studies, Urban communities, Development economics and emerging economies, Regional / urban economics, Property and real estate, Human geography, The environment, Nuclear power and engineering, Alternative and renewable energy sources and technology

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      Dr. Franklin Obeng-Odoom is an urban researcher currently based at the School of the Built Environment at the University of Technology, Sydney in Australia where he is the Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellow.
      This book presents a critical analysis of the ‘resource curse’ doctrine and a review of the international evidence on oil and urban development to examine the role of oil on property development and rights in West Africa’s new oil metropolis - Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana. It seeks answers to the following questions: In what ways did the city come into existence? What changes to property rights are oil prospecting, explorations, and production introducing in the 21st century? How do the effects vary across different social classes and spectrums? To what extent are local and national institutions able to shape, restrain, and constrain trans-national oil-related accumulation and its effects on property in land, property in housing (residential, leisure, and commercial), and property in labour? How do these processes connect with the entire urban system in Ghana? This book shows how institutions of varying degrees of power interact to govern land, housing, and labour in the city, and analyses how efficient, sustainable, and equitable the outcomes of these interactions are. It is a comprehensive account of the tensions and contradictions in the main sectors of the urban economy, society, and environment in the booming Oil City and will be of interest to urban economists, development economists, real estate economists, Africanists and urbanists.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Franklin Obeng-Odoom EAN: 9780415744096 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 630 g HEIGHT: 234 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Taylor & Francis Ltd DATE PUBLISHED: 2014-06-05 CITY: GENRE: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Real Estate / General, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Construction / General WIDTH: 156 cm SPINE:

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      Development studies, Urban communities, Development economics and emerging economies, Regional / urban economics, Property and real estate, Human geography, The environment, Nuclear power and engineering, Alternative and renewable energy sources and technology

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      Dr. Franklin Obeng-Odoom is an urban researcher currently based at the School of the Built Environment at the University of Technology, Sydney in Australia where he is the Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellow.

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