Akin Mabogunje
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Nigerian geographer
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Akin Mabogunje's Degrees
- Bachelors Geography University of Ibadan
- Masters Geography University of Ibadan
- PhD Geography University of California, Berkeley
Why Is Akin Mabogunje Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Akinlawon Ladipo "Akin" Mabogunje was a Nigerian geographer. He was the first African president of the International Geographical Union. In 1999, he was the first African to be elected as a Foreign Associate of the United States National Academy of Sciences. In 2017, he was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and received the Vautrin Lud Prize.
Akin Mabogunje's Published Works
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Published Works
- Sustainability Science (2001) (1970)
- No Shortcuts to Progress: African Development Management in Perspective (1984) (526)
- Systems Approach to a Theory of Rural‐Urban Migration (2010) (413)
- Urbanization in Nigeria (1969) (342)
- The Development Process: A Spatial Perspective (1980) (304)
- Urban Planning and the Post-Colonial State in Africa: A Research Overview (1990) (181)
- Climate change and the integrity of science. (2010) (137)
- Patrons and Power: Creating a Political Community in Metropolitan Lagos (1986) (89)
- Perspective on Urban Land and Urban Management Policies in Sub-Saharan Africa (1992) (82)
- The Growth of Residential Districts in Ibadan (1962) (77)
- The environmental challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa. (1995) (62)
- The City Of Ibadan (1969) (60)
- Towards an urban policy in Nigeria (1974) (49)
- Shelter provision in developing countries : the influence of standards and criteria / A. L. Mabogunje, J. E. Hardoy, and R. P. Misra (1978) (45)
- Poverty and Environmental Degradation: Challenges within the Global Economy (2002) (42)
- Regional mobility and resource development in West Africa (1972) (41)
- Urbanization in Nigeria. A Constraint on Economic Development (1965) (37)
- A New Paradigm for Urban Development (1991) (35)
- Cities and social order (1982) (29)
- Tackling the African “poverty trap”: The Ijebu-Ode experiment (2007) (27)
- Owu in Yoruba history (1971) (24)
- THE EVOLUTION AND ANALYSIS OF THE RETAIL STRUCTURE OF LAGOS, NIGERIA (1964) (23)
- MANUFACTURING AND THE GEOGRAPHY OF DEVELOPMENT IN TROPICAL AFRICA (1973) (21)
- Agrarian Responses to Outmigration in sub-Saharan Africa (1989) (20)
- Migration policy and regional development in Nigeria. (1970) (18)
- Framing the Fundamental Issues of Sustainable Development in (2004) (17)
- Sustainable Development in Ijebu-Ode, Nigeria: The Role of Social Capital, Participation, and Science and Technology (2004) (15)
- Institutional radicalization, the state, and the development process in Africa. (2000) (14)
- Agricultural Development in Africa (1969) (14)
- New initiatives in urban planning and management in Nigeria (1992) (13)
- Global urban futures (2000) (13)
- The leadership challenge in African agricultural production (1988) (12)
- New Land Reform in Nigeria (2009) (12)
- The Development Process (1980) (12)
- The Development Process (1980) (12)
- Growth poles and growth centres in the regional development of Nigeria (1978) (11)
- The Dynamics of Centre-Periphery Relations: The Need for a New Geography of Resource Development (1980) (9)
- Sea clutter power spectral lineshape measurements (1997) (9)
- Belfer Center for Science & International Affairs (1998) (9)
- Changing agricultural landscape in Southern Nigeria - the example of Egba Division, 1850-1950 (1964) (9)
- The development process : a spatial perspective / Akin L. Mabogunje (1980) (8)
- Some Comments on Land Tenure in Egba Division, Western Nigeria (1961) (8)
- Radar littoral environment predictions and measurements (1997) (7)
- Geography and the Dilemma of Rural Development in Africa (1981) (7)
- Mobilizing Nigeria's grassroots for increased food production: reaching out from the centre. (1990) (6)
- The poor shall inherit the earth: Issues of environmental quality and third world development (1984) (6)
- The economic implications of the pattern of urbanisation in Nigeria (1965) (6)
- Geography and the Problems of the Third World. (1975) (5)
- The City of Ibadan: A Symposium on Its Structure and Development (1968) (5)
- The Organization of Urban Communities in Nigeria (1990) (5)
- Social science research on population and development in Africa South of the Sahara (1978) (5)
- Regional Geography of West Africa (1982) (5)
- Rice cultivation in Southern Nigeria (1959) (5)
- Industrialization within an existing system of cities in Nigeria (1969) (5)
- The case for big cities (1983) (5)
- The African Condition, a Political Diagnosis. The 1979 Reith Lectures (1980) (4)
- Regional Mobility and Research Development in West Africa (1973) (4)
- Development of world production and trade up to the year 2000 — A third world view (1977) (4)
- The problems of the Northern Yoruba towns: the example of Shaki (1961) (4)
- Geography in the Nigerian public policy domain: The impact and influence of American geographers (2004) (3)
- International Circumstances Affecting the Development and Trade of Developing Countries (1977) (3)
- Industrialisation and technological innovation in an African economy (1994) (3)
- Issues in urban and regional development in Nigeria (1993) (3)
- URBANIZATION IN WEST AFRICA (1966) (2)
- Africa's economic development: the role of urban centres and resources mobilization (1990) (2)
- The State of the Earth: Contemporary Geographic Perspectives (1997) (2)
- Spatial Fetish Rules: O. K.? (1983) (1)
- Changes in Socio-Economic and Cultural Patterns Caused by the Industrialization of Nigeria: A Regional Differentiation (1971) (1)
- Yoruba towns : based on a lecture entitled 'Problems of a pre-industrial urbanization in West Africa' given before the Philosophical Society on 12 April 1961 (1962) (1)
- Capitalist Revolution: Strategy for Rural Development in Africa (1986) (1)
- The nature of rural development (2015) (1)
- Research in urban geography in Nigeria (1968) (1)
- The Pre-colonial Development of Yoruba Towns (1974) (1)
- Settlement policies and the transformation of traditional economies (1978) (1)
- West Africa - Geographies for Advanced Study (1975) (1)
- CHAPTER 12 – THE POPULATION CENSUS OF NIGERIA, 1973 (1976) (1)
- A TESTBED FOR STUDYING VENTURE DESIGN TEAMS IN EMERGING MARKETS (2012) (1)
- Strategy of rural development (2015) (1)
- Migrants and innovation in African societies: definition of a research field. (1975) (1)
- Spatial production organisation and integration in developing countries: the case of Africa (1976) (0)
- An urban African seeks rural experience (1999) (0)
- Source material for the study of historical geography in Nigeria (1959) (0)
- Regional development alternatives : international perspectives (1981) (0)
- Urbanization in Nigeria@@@African Rural-Urban Migration: The Movement to Ghana's Towns (1971) (0)
- The Struggle for a Second Independence (1998) (0)
- The Development Process: Review@@@The Development Process: A Spatial Perspective (1982) (0)
- Class structure and labor relations. (1990) (0)
- Geographic space and development (2015) (0)
- The State of the Earth (1997) (0)
- The urban age - urban infrastructure issue 1(3) (1993) (0)
- Sandra T. Barnes, Patrons and Power: creating a political community in metropolitan Lagos . Manchester: Manchester University Press for the International African Institute, 1986, 261 pp., £32.50. ISBN 0 7190 1944 3. (1988) (0)
- Urban crisis of underdevelopment (2015) (0)
- Collapse of traditional rural structures (2015) (0)
- Review: African Traditional Architecture: A Study of the Housing and Settlement Patterns of Rural Kenya by Kaj Blegrad Anderson (1979) (0)
- Urban-rural relationship in a developing economy : the parable of the old wineskins (1977) (0)
- Ijeshas and Nigerians: The Incorporation of a Yoruba Kingdom 1890s–1970s, J.D.Y. Peel. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (1983), xiv, +346. £27·50 (1985) (0)
- The politics of agriculture in tropical Africa: J. Baker (ed.), vol. 9, 320 pp., 1984, Sage Series on African Modernization and Development, Sage Publications, London, £33.00 (1986) (0)
- Homenagem à Bertha K. Becker do Professor Akinlawon Ladipo Mabogunje da University of Ibadan, Nigéria (2013) (0)
- David D. Laitin, Hegemony and Culture: politics and religious change among the Yoruba. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1986, 252 pp., £23.95, ISBN 0 226 46789 9 (hardback), £11.25, ISBN 0 226 46790 2 (paperback). (1988) (0)
- Urban system and national development (2015) (0)
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