Joseph Alhassan
The researcher's overall research focus centers on examining the interconnected relationships between human activities, natural systems, and societal impacts in Northern Ghana. Using various domains such as land use, urban expansion, child nutrition, energy practices, and agricultural innovations, the study explores how these elements influence each other across different life stages—e.g., land conversion affecting ecosystems, urbanization impacting livelihoods, water scarcity influencing nutrition, environmental effects from wood producers, and adaptive agriculture responding to changes. The overarching goal is to understand how these interconnected systems shape the region's economies and improve quality of life through informed decision-making and innovation.
Agricultural Innovations and Practices
Child Nutrition and Water Access
Energy and Environment Impacts
Land Use and Ecosystem Services
Urban and Rural Development Challenges
Water resources management and optimization
Understanding the barriers and knowledge gaps to climate-smart agriculture and climate information services: A multi-stakeholder analysis of smallholder farmers’ uptake in Ghana
Open AccessIncidence of water scarcity: understanding the triggers and implications for women’s non-agricultural livelihoods in Northern Ghana
Open AccessUrban expansion and livelihood dynamics in peri‐urban Tamale, Ghana
The climate and environmental determinants of domestic water supply change at the Nasia catchment in Northern Ghana
Open AccessLand-use and land cover change dynamics in urban Ghana: implications for peri-urban livelihoods
Open AccessWood Fuel Producers’ Insight on the Environmental Effects of Their Activities in Ghana
Department of Environmental Science
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology