Nelson Nyabanyi N-yanbini is currently a doctoral student in Urban Studies at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. Before joining Lingnan University, he was a lecturer in urban planning at Simon Diedong Dombo University of Business and Integrated Development Studies, Ghana. Nelson holds an MPhil in Planning and a Bachelor of Science in Human Settlement Planning both from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). He previously worked as a Project Coordinator in Family Support Lifeline (NGO) and as a Teaching and Research Assistant at the Department of Planning, KNUST. Nelson’s areas of research interest are urban planning, urban sustainability, urban greening, climate change adaptation and land governance. He has published widely in leading urban and environmental journals. His current research focuses on land tenure-urban sprawl interactions and its impacts on the sustainability of urban green spaces. Nelson is a receipient of the prestigious Hong Kong PhD Fellowship (HKPFS). He served as a consultant on the GIZ-Ghana project on data powered positive deviance study of forest conservation in Northern Ghana in 2024 and has also consulted for many local non-governmental organizations in Ghana.