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Acknowledgements
The editors would like to express their gratitude for financial contributions to this issue from the Department of Geography at NTNU, and the Norway–Ghana collaboration programme in geography under the Norwegian Council for Higher Education's Programme for Development Research and Education (NUFU). Thanks are also due to the many referees for comments and advice which have benefited the quality of articles. We would also like to acknowledge the valuable work done by editorial assistant Catriona Turner in putting this special issue together.