| Expert Name | Prof. Jacob Songsore |
| Title | Professor & Head of Department |
| Division | Department of Geography and Resource Development |
| Institution | University of Ghana |
| City | Legon |
| Country | Ghana |
| Telephone | 233 21 500 394 |
| Email | rsau(at)africaonline.com.gh |
| Work Experience | - Lecturer, University of Ghana 1975: Senior Lecturer, Oct. 1982; Associate Professor, Feb., 1991; Full Professor, May 1997
- Currently, Head of Department of Geography and Resource Development, University of Ghana
- Chairman, Management Board, Ghana national Atlas Development Centre, 1994-1996
- Member, Committee on Human Elements of the Ghana Environmental Action Plan
- Member, National Development Planning Committee, Cross Sectoral Planning Group for Spatial Organisation and the Environment
- Scientific Coordinator, Community Based Environmental Management Information System (CEMIS), Pilot Project in LA, Accra, Ghana
- EU Concerted Action Partner on Public Participation in Urban Environmental Health services - IRC, Netherlands |
| Qualifications | B.A., Hons, Geography, 2nd Class Upper, University of Ghana, 1971
Ph.D., Geography, Urban Studies, University of Ghana, 1975
MSS, Regional Planning, The Hague, 1978, 4SS on Nuffic Fellowship |
| Number of Publications | 33 |
| Awards | 1. Biography. The Marquis Who's Who in Science and Engineering, Fourth Edition, 1998/1999
2. Biography, The Marquis Who's Who in the World, forthcoming, 16th Edition
3. Biography, 2000 Outstanding Scientists of the 20th Century, International Biographic |
| Other Activities | - Member, Ghana Geographical Association from 1975
- Member, European Network for Housing Research from 1993
- Associated Scientist, Stockholm Environment Institute from 1995
- Member, The New York Academy of Sciences from 1995 |
| Publications | 1. Songsore, J., and Denkabe, A., 1995: Challenging Rural Poverty in Northern Ghana. The Case of the Upper West Region, CED, University of Trondheim, Report No. 6/95, 1995;
2. Atkinson, A., Songsore, J., and Werna, E., (eds.), 1996: Urban Health Research in Developing Countries: Implications for Policy, Cab International, Oxon, UK;
3. Songsore, J., and McGranahan, G., 1993: Environment Wealth and Health: Towards an Analysis of Intra-Urban differentials within the greater Accra Metropolitan Area, Environment and Urbanization, Vol. 5, No. 2 Oct., pp. 10-34;
4. Songsore, J., and Goldstein, G., 1995: Health and Environment Analysis for Decision Making (HEAD-LAMP); Field Study in Accra, Ghana, World Health Statistics Quarterly, Vol. 48, No. 2 pp. 108-117;
5. Songsore, J., and McGranahan, G., 1998: The Political Economy of Household Environmental management Gender, Environmental and Epidimology in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area, World Development Vol. 26, No. 3, pp. 395-410. |
| Discipline | Geography |
| Last updated | 09/05/2007 11:33:00 |
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