Recent Articles in Refereed Journals

1. Abass, K. (2023). Battling with urban floods: Household experience, coping and adaptation strategies in Ghana. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2023.104430. Cities, 140, 1-13.
2. Abass, K., & Serbeh, R. (2023). Public perceptions of the health benefits of green spaces in urban Ghana. Local Environment, 1-12.
3. Iddrisu, S., Siiba, A., Alhassan, J., & Abass, K. (2023). Land-use and land cover change dynamics in urban Ghana: Implications for peri-urban livelihoods. International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development, 15(1), 80-96.
4. Opoku, F., Forkuor, D., & Abass, K. (2023). Toward maximising profits from markets: an analysis of the management structure of markets in Kumasi, Ghana. SN Business & Economics, 3(3), 63.
5. Gyasi, R. M., Hajek, A., Owusu, R., James, P. B., Boampong, M. S., Accam, B. T., Abass, K., Owusu-Dabo, E.& Phillips, D. R. (2023). Sleep and happiness in urban-dwelling older adults in Ghana: A serial multiple mediation model of generalized anxiety and depressive symptoms: Sleep and happiness in later life. The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry.
6. Dumedah, G., Abass, K., Gyasi, R. M., Forkuor, J. B., & Novignon, J. (2023). Inefficient allocation of paratransit service terminals and routes in Ghana: The role of driver unions and paratransit operators. Journal of transport geography, 111, 103643.
7. Gyasi, R. M., Phillips, D. R., Sefa Boampong, M., Abass, K., Kyei-Arthur, F., Agunbiade, O. M., ... & Hajek, A. (2023). Bodily pain in physical function and the role of physical activity among community-dwelling adults aged 50-69 years in Ghana. The Journals of Gerontology: Series A, glad156.
8. Gyasi, R. M., Asante, F., Hambali, M. G., Odei, J., Jacob, L., Obeng, B., Preprah, P., Asamoah, E., Agyemang-Duah, W., Abass, K., Asiki, G., & Adam, A. M. (2023). Mobility limitations and emotional dysfunction in old age: The moderating effects of physical activity and social ties. International journal of geriatric psychiatry, 38(7), e5969.
9. Guodaar, L., Abass, K., Afriyie, K., Segbefia, A. Y., & Addai, G. (2023). Farmers’ perceptions of severe climate risks and adaptation interventions in indigenous communities in northern Ghana. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 103891.
10. Abass, K., Gyasi, R. M., Katey, D., Frempong, F., & Garsonu, E. K. (2022). Flood exposure and psychological distress among Ghanaian adults in flood-prone settings.Science of The Total Environment, 835, 155481. 
11. Abass, K., Dumedah, G., Frempong, F., Muntaka, A. S., Appiah, D. O., Garsonu, E. K., & Gyasi, R. M. (2022). Rising incidence and risks of floods in urban Ghana: Is climate change to blame? Cities, 121, 103495.
12. Arimiyaw, A. W., Abass, K., & Asante, F. (2021). Urban vegetable farming in Ghana: assessing the health risks from objective and subjective lenses.International Journal of Food Safety, Nutrition and Public Health, 6(2), 131-145.
13. Katey, D., Addo, A. A., Abass, K., & Morgan, A. K. (2022). Prevalence study of type 2 diabetes mellitus in the Ashanti region of Ghana: a systematic review of risk factors.Journal of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes of South Africa, 1-7.
14. Gyasi, R. M., Abass, K., Frempong, F., Obodai, J., Asamoah, E., Obeng, B., & Awuviry-Newton, K. (2022). Food insecurity and geriatric functional limitations: Observational analysis from the AgeHeaPsyWel–HeaSeeB Survey. Experimental Gerontology, 111707.
15. Gyasi, R. M., Peprah, P., Abass, K., Siaw, L. P., Adjakloe, Y. D. A., Garsonu, E. K., & Phillips, D. R. (2022). Loneliness and physical function impairment: Perceived health status as an effect modifier in community-dwelling older adults in Ghana. Preventive Medicine Reports, 26, 101721.
16. Jeil, E. B., & Abass, K. (2021). A contextual analysis of public health implications of water choices and hygiene practices in Northern Ghana.Local Environment, 26(5), 542-556.
17. Adu-Gyamfi, S., Brenya, E., Gyasi, R. M., Abass, K., Darkwa, B. D., Nimoh, M., & Tomdi, L. (2021). A COVID in the wheels of the world: A contemporary history of a pandemic in Africa. Research in Globalization, 3, 100043.
18. Arimiyaw, A.W., Abass, K. & Morgan, A.K (2021). Minimizing the long-term impact of COVID-19 on environmental pollution in Sub-Saharan Africa. Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy, 17 (1), 82-85.
19. Abass, K., Buor, D., Afriyie, K., Dumedah, G., Segbefi, A. Y., Guodaar, L., ... & Gyasi, R. M. (2020). Urban sprawl and green space depletion: Implications for flood incidence in Kumasi, Ghana.International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 51, 101915.
20. Abass, K. (2020). Rising incidence of urban floods: understanding the causes for flood risk reduction in Kumasi, Ghana.GeoJournal, 1-18.
21. Jeil, E. B., Abass, K., & Segbefia, A. Y. (2020). Challenges to sustaining beekeeping livelihoods in Ghana.GeoJournal, 1-18.
22. Jeil, E. B., Abass, K., & Ganle, J. K. (2020). “We are free when water is available”: gendered livelihood implications of sporadic water supply in Northern Ghana.Local Environment, 25(4), 320-335.
23. Gyasi, R. M., Abass, K., & Adu-Gyamfi, S. (2020). How do lifestyle choices affect the link between living alone and psychological distress in older age? Results from the AgeHeaPsyWel-HeaSeeB study.BMC Public Health, 20(1), 1-9.
24. Afriyie, K., & Abass, K. (2020). Profiting from illegality: A discursive analysis of the chainsaw operation in rural Ghana.Forest Policy and Economics, 115, 102174.
25. Abass, K., Owusu, A. F. S., & Gyasi, R. M. (2019). Market vegetable hygiene practices and health risk perceptions of vegetable sellers in urban Ghana.International Journal of Environmental Health Research, 29(2), 221-236.
26. Abass, K., Dumedah, G., & Frempong, F. (2019). Understanding the physical and human contexts of fluvial floods in rural Ghana.International Journal of River Basin Management, 1-36. https://doi.org/10.1080/15715124.2019.1653310
27. Abass, K., Appiah, D. O., & Afriyie, K. (2019). Does green space matter? Public knowledge and attitude towards urban greenery in Ghana.Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 126462.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2019.126462