Tropical Forests - Ecology, Diversity and Conservation Status [Working Title]
Forests play an important role in the ecological, environmental, socio-economic and cultural live... more Forests play an important role in the ecological, environmental, socio-economic and cultural lives of people. However, human-nature-forest interactions bring imbalances in the state of these resources, hence the need to monitor and manage the forest proactively. This chapter, therefore, assessed the gains and losses of three national parks in Ghana (including Mole, Digya and Kakum) for the period 1986 and 2020. Landsat TM and Landsat8 OLI images were used for the assessment. The Digya National Park has a spatial extent of 4121.89 km2. In 1986, the extent of the close forest cover was 88.0% of the park and it declined to 82.8% in 2020, a loss of 6.2%. The Kakum National Park covers an area of 463.42 km2. The close forest cover was 90.15% and 89.52% of the extent of the park in 1986 and 2020, respectively. The Mole National Park covers about 4602.19 km2. In 1986, 86.73% of the park was open forest, which was reduced to 80.83%, a loss of 5.90%. The study revealed 67% of open forest deg...
This study assessed women and sustainable livelihoods with focus on selected shea butter processi... more This study assessed women and sustainable livelihoods with focus on selected shea butter processing centers in Sagnarigu Municipal Assembly of the Northern Region, Ghana. The objectives of the study were to determine the challenges confronting women into shea butter processing and to examine the extent to which these challenges undermine sustainable livelihood of women. This study adopted the explanatory research designs with the quantitative research strategy. The study used structured questionnaire to gather data from 240 women. The study used Structural Equation Model to identify the challenges that significantly undermine sustainable livelihood of women. Start-up capital and credit for equipment, raw material and labor were financial challenges. Leadership, conflicts on transparency and accountability and social status were social challenges. Inadequate technical skills, poor management skills, poor record keeping were human capital challenges. Poor road network, inadequate stor...
This study conceptualizes how fire management authorities can empower nonexpert public to partici... more This study conceptualizes how fire management authorities can empower nonexpert public to participate in fire risk communication processes and increase their own responsibilities for managing fire preventive, protective and recovery processes effectively. Drawing narratives from 10 disaster management experts working at government institutions and nine micro-entrepreneurs operating self-sustaining businesses in different merchandized lines in Ghana, we analyzed the data thematically and explored new insights on mental models to generate a two-way fire risk communication model. The findings suggest that fire management authorities planned fire disasters at the strategic level, collaborated with multiple stakeholders, disseminated information through many risk communication methods, and utilized their capabilities to manage fire at the various stages of fire risk communication, but the outcomes were poor. The micro-entrepreneurs sought to improve fire management outcomes through attitude change, law enforcement actions, strengthened security and better public trust building. The study has implications for policymakers, governments, and risk communication authorities of developing countries to strengthen their fire disaster policies to minimize commercial fire incidents and address the damaging effects of fire on people's livelihoods, businesses, properties, and environments. Our proposed two-way fire risk communication model is a new theoretical lens for experts and the nonexpert public to assess each other's beliefs about risk information and manage fire risk communication effectively at all stages.
The study assesses the quality of hand dug wells in relation to distance from soakaway septic tan... more The study assesses the quality of hand dug wells in relation to distance from soakaway septic tanks in three selected peri-urban communities in the Ga West Municipality near Accra, Ghana. Water quality analyses of bio-physicochemical variables (pH, Temperature, EC, turbidity, DO, BOD, TSS, TDS, sodium, potassium, nitrate, nitrite, ammonia, sulphate, chloride, salinity, total alkalinity, total coliform, fecal coliforms and isolation of E. coli) were determined. Concentrations of the major nutrient anion sulphate, nitrate, phosphate, and chlorides in water samples at distances between 0-30 m radial distances from the septic tank were above the WHO permissible limit of drinking water compared to the control. All the water samples had high fecal and total coliform counts that exceeded the international standard of 0 per 100 mL of potable water with counts ranging from 0-143 cfu/100 ml and 53-463/100 ml for FC and TC respectively. High fecal coliform and detection of E. coli in most samples is an indication of fecal pollution possibly from their close proximity to soak away septic sewage. The high nutrient levels detected in samples at distances between 0-30 m as compared to the controls may also be attributed to its close proximity to septic tanks. This study, therefore, accentuates the need for the owners of the water points to site their water source at least 30m away from localized sources of pollution as well as treatment of groundwater before use.
Turnover among teaching staff in our universities are mostly due to dissatisfaction with their jo... more Turnover among teaching staff in our universities are mostly due to dissatisfaction with their jobs. Employee job satisfaction is of utmost importance to stimulating and sustaining the interest of the individual in order to prevent employee turnover. There are many factors influencing employee job satisfaction and preventing employee turnover. Factors such as salary, working conditions, cordial relationship with colleagues at work, opportunities for job progression among several other factors. The objective of this paper was to explore the extent to which these factors, affect employee job satisfaction and prevent turnover among lecturers in the University for Development Studies using the cross-sectional design and quantitative approach of data collection. Survey questionnaires were employed as data collection instruments to elicit information from 287 lecturers recruited from the University for Development Studies within the Tamale Metropolis. Multiple regression was used to estab...
A Thesis submitted to the School of Graduate Studies, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Tec... more A Thesis submitted to the School of Graduate Studies, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Development Policy and Planning, 2011
Journal of Geoscience and Environment Protection, 2022
The study assesses the quality of hand dug wells in relation to distance from soakaway septic tan... more The study assesses the quality of hand dug wells in relation to distance from soakaway septic tanks in three selected peri-urban communities in the Ga West Municipality near Accra, Ghana. Water quality analyses of bio-physicochemical variables (pH, Temperature, EC, turbidity, DO, BOD, TSS, TDS, sodium, potassium, nitrate, nitrite, ammonia, sulphate, chloride, salinity, total alkalinity, total coliform, fecal coliforms and isolation of E. coli) were determined. Concentrations of the major nutrient anion sulphate, nitrate, phosphate, and chlorides in water samples at distances between 0-30 m radial distances from the septic tank were above the WHO permissible limit of drinking water compared to the control. All the water samples had high fecal and total coliform counts that exceeded the international standard of 0 per 100 mL of potable water with counts ranging from 0-143 cfu/100 ml and 53-463/100 ml for FC and TC respectively. High fecal coliform and detection of E. coli in most samp...
This paper presents a systematic review of relevant secondary materials on effective communicatio... more This paper presents a systematic review of relevant secondary materials on effective communication for disaster management. The paper undertook a copious review of secondary information on the concept of disaster risk communication and its ramifications on livelihood vulnerability, obtained from Google and other search engines data bases. Using the risk perception and planned behaviour theories, we espoused that the drivers of disasters and associated risks can be categorized into anthropogenic (human) and geogenic (natural) in nature. The discourse also revealed that individual’s ability to secure sustainable livelihood, determines their affinity to devote some time and resources towards the compliance of disaster risk information communicated. Since some of the measures of protecting investments and livelihoods could be capital intensive, respondents would, usually want to be gainful in their occupations, or upgrading in their existing jobs, before they could develop the resilient capabilities for disaster management. It can therefore be deduced that people’s vulnerability to risk is influenced largely by both gender and livelihood strategies. A stakeholder integration of efforts, based on the utility of the two theories espoused, should be the guiding framework in generating and disseminating risk communication among disaster risk stake-actors, in their scheme of affairs. Keywords : effective communication, disaster, vulnerability, risk, and livelihood DOI: 10.7176/JEES/10-10-04 Publication date: October 31 st 2020
... except where acknowledgement has been made in the text. Boasu, Bismark Yeboah (PG 2001008) ……... more ... except where acknowledgement has been made in the text. Boasu, Bismark Yeboah (PG 2001008) ………… Student Name and ID) Signature Date Certified by: ... Offei-Aboagye also established that CBOs often demonstrate the capability to mobilize ...
Tropical Forests - Ecology, Diversity and Conservation Status [Working Title]
Forests play an important role in the ecological, environmental, socio-economic and cultural live... more Forests play an important role in the ecological, environmental, socio-economic and cultural lives of people. However, human-nature-forest interactions bring imbalances in the state of these resources, hence the need to monitor and manage the forest proactively. This chapter, therefore, assessed the gains and losses of three national parks in Ghana (including Mole, Digya and Kakum) for the period 1986 and 2020. Landsat TM and Landsat8 OLI images were used for the assessment. The Digya National Park has a spatial extent of 4121.89 km2. In 1986, the extent of the close forest cover was 88.0% of the park and it declined to 82.8% in 2020, a loss of 6.2%. The Kakum National Park covers an area of 463.42 km2. The close forest cover was 90.15% and 89.52% of the extent of the park in 1986 and 2020, respectively. The Mole National Park covers about 4602.19 km2. In 1986, 86.73% of the park was open forest, which was reduced to 80.83%, a loss of 5.90%. The study revealed 67% of open forest deg...
This study assessed women and sustainable livelihoods with focus on selected shea butter processi... more This study assessed women and sustainable livelihoods with focus on selected shea butter processing centers in Sagnarigu Municipal Assembly of the Northern Region, Ghana. The objectives of the study were to determine the challenges confronting women into shea butter processing and to examine the extent to which these challenges undermine sustainable livelihood of women. This study adopted the explanatory research designs with the quantitative research strategy. The study used structured questionnaire to gather data from 240 women. The study used Structural Equation Model to identify the challenges that significantly undermine sustainable livelihood of women. Start-up capital and credit for equipment, raw material and labor were financial challenges. Leadership, conflicts on transparency and accountability and social status were social challenges. Inadequate technical skills, poor management skills, poor record keeping were human capital challenges. Poor road network, inadequate stor...
This study conceptualizes how fire management authorities can empower nonexpert public to partici... more This study conceptualizes how fire management authorities can empower nonexpert public to participate in fire risk communication processes and increase their own responsibilities for managing fire preventive, protective and recovery processes effectively. Drawing narratives from 10 disaster management experts working at government institutions and nine micro-entrepreneurs operating self-sustaining businesses in different merchandized lines in Ghana, we analyzed the data thematically and explored new insights on mental models to generate a two-way fire risk communication model. The findings suggest that fire management authorities planned fire disasters at the strategic level, collaborated with multiple stakeholders, disseminated information through many risk communication methods, and utilized their capabilities to manage fire at the various stages of fire risk communication, but the outcomes were poor. The micro-entrepreneurs sought to improve fire management outcomes through attitude change, law enforcement actions, strengthened security and better public trust building. The study has implications for policymakers, governments, and risk communication authorities of developing countries to strengthen their fire disaster policies to minimize commercial fire incidents and address the damaging effects of fire on people's livelihoods, businesses, properties, and environments. Our proposed two-way fire risk communication model is a new theoretical lens for experts and the nonexpert public to assess each other's beliefs about risk information and manage fire risk communication effectively at all stages.
The study assesses the quality of hand dug wells in relation to distance from soakaway septic tan... more The study assesses the quality of hand dug wells in relation to distance from soakaway septic tanks in three selected peri-urban communities in the Ga West Municipality near Accra, Ghana. Water quality analyses of bio-physicochemical variables (pH, Temperature, EC, turbidity, DO, BOD, TSS, TDS, sodium, potassium, nitrate, nitrite, ammonia, sulphate, chloride, salinity, total alkalinity, total coliform, fecal coliforms and isolation of E. coli) were determined. Concentrations of the major nutrient anion sulphate, nitrate, phosphate, and chlorides in water samples at distances between 0-30 m radial distances from the septic tank were above the WHO permissible limit of drinking water compared to the control. All the water samples had high fecal and total coliform counts that exceeded the international standard of 0 per 100 mL of potable water with counts ranging from 0-143 cfu/100 ml and 53-463/100 ml for FC and TC respectively. High fecal coliform and detection of E. coli in most samples is an indication of fecal pollution possibly from their close proximity to soak away septic sewage. The high nutrient levels detected in samples at distances between 0-30 m as compared to the controls may also be attributed to its close proximity to septic tanks. This study, therefore, accentuates the need for the owners of the water points to site their water source at least 30m away from localized sources of pollution as well as treatment of groundwater before use.
Turnover among teaching staff in our universities are mostly due to dissatisfaction with their jo... more Turnover among teaching staff in our universities are mostly due to dissatisfaction with their jobs. Employee job satisfaction is of utmost importance to stimulating and sustaining the interest of the individual in order to prevent employee turnover. There are many factors influencing employee job satisfaction and preventing employee turnover. Factors such as salary, working conditions, cordial relationship with colleagues at work, opportunities for job progression among several other factors. The objective of this paper was to explore the extent to which these factors, affect employee job satisfaction and prevent turnover among lecturers in the University for Development Studies using the cross-sectional design and quantitative approach of data collection. Survey questionnaires were employed as data collection instruments to elicit information from 287 lecturers recruited from the University for Development Studies within the Tamale Metropolis. Multiple regression was used to estab...
A Thesis submitted to the School of Graduate Studies, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Tec... more A Thesis submitted to the School of Graduate Studies, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Development Policy and Planning, 2011
Journal of Geoscience and Environment Protection, 2022
The study assesses the quality of hand dug wells in relation to distance from soakaway septic tan... more The study assesses the quality of hand dug wells in relation to distance from soakaway septic tanks in three selected peri-urban communities in the Ga West Municipality near Accra, Ghana. Water quality analyses of bio-physicochemical variables (pH, Temperature, EC, turbidity, DO, BOD, TSS, TDS, sodium, potassium, nitrate, nitrite, ammonia, sulphate, chloride, salinity, total alkalinity, total coliform, fecal coliforms and isolation of E. coli) were determined. Concentrations of the major nutrient anion sulphate, nitrate, phosphate, and chlorides in water samples at distances between 0-30 m radial distances from the septic tank were above the WHO permissible limit of drinking water compared to the control. All the water samples had high fecal and total coliform counts that exceeded the international standard of 0 per 100 mL of potable water with counts ranging from 0-143 cfu/100 ml and 53-463/100 ml for FC and TC respectively. High fecal coliform and detection of E. coli in most samp...
This paper presents a systematic review of relevant secondary materials on effective communicatio... more This paper presents a systematic review of relevant secondary materials on effective communication for disaster management. The paper undertook a copious review of secondary information on the concept of disaster risk communication and its ramifications on livelihood vulnerability, obtained from Google and other search engines data bases. Using the risk perception and planned behaviour theories, we espoused that the drivers of disasters and associated risks can be categorized into anthropogenic (human) and geogenic (natural) in nature. The discourse also revealed that individual’s ability to secure sustainable livelihood, determines their affinity to devote some time and resources towards the compliance of disaster risk information communicated. Since some of the measures of protecting investments and livelihoods could be capital intensive, respondents would, usually want to be gainful in their occupations, or upgrading in their existing jobs, before they could develop the resilient capabilities for disaster management. It can therefore be deduced that people’s vulnerability to risk is influenced largely by both gender and livelihood strategies. A stakeholder integration of efforts, based on the utility of the two theories espoused, should be the guiding framework in generating and disseminating risk communication among disaster risk stake-actors, in their scheme of affairs. Keywords : effective communication, disaster, vulnerability, risk, and livelihood DOI: 10.7176/JEES/10-10-04 Publication date: October 31 st 2020
... except where acknowledgement has been made in the text. Boasu, Bismark Yeboah (PG 2001008) ……... more ... except where acknowledgement has been made in the text. Boasu, Bismark Yeboah (PG 2001008) ………… Student Name and ID) Signature Date Certified by: ... Offei-Aboagye also established that CBOs often demonstrate the capability to mobilize ...
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