Prof. Kwadwo Afriyie

Associate Professor


Dept: Geography and Rural Development
Department of Geography and Rural Development
Faculty of Social Sciences
College Humanities and Social Sciences
KNUST

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Research Areas/Interests

My current research interest lies in Microfinance, Artisanal and small scale mining, Land use land cover change, Peri-urbanism and Decentralisation...~more

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Publications

    Akabzaa, T. M., Seyire, J. S. and Afriyie, K. (2007) The Glittering Facade: Effects of Mining   Activities on Obuasi and its Surrounding Communities. Third World Network-Africa, Accra [ISBN: 9988-602-25-1]

     

     

    1.  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. DOI: 10.1016/j.ufug.2019.126462

     

    2.  Afriyie, K., Abass, K. & Adjei, P.O.W. (2019). Urban sprawl and agricultural livelihood response in peri-urban Ghana. International Journal of Urban Sustainable development. DOI:10.1080/19463138.1691560

     

    3.  Abass, K., Afriyie, K. & Gyasi, R. M. (2019). From green to grey: the dynamics of land use/land cover change in urban Ghana.Landscape Research, 44(8), 909-921

     

    4.  Guodaar, L., Asante, F., Eshun, G., Abass, K., Afriyie, K., Appiah, D. O., ... & Kpenekuu, F. (2019). How do climate change adaptation strategies result in unintended maladaptive outcomes? Perspectives of tomato farmers.International Journal of Vegetable Science, DOI: 10,1080/19315260.2019.1573393

     

    5.  Afriyie, K., Ganle, J. K. & Santos, E. (2018) ‘The floods came and we lost everything’: Weather extremes and households' assets vulnerability and adaptation in rural Ghana. Climate and Development, 10(3), 259-274

     

    6.  Abass, K., Ganle, J. K. & Afriyie, K. (2017). ‘The germs are not harmful’: health risk perceptions among consumers of peri-urban grown vegetables in Kumasi, Ghana. GeoJournal82(6), 1213-1227.

     

    7.  Afriyie, K., Ganle, J.K. & Adomako, J. A. A. (2016) The good in evil: A discourse analysis of the Galamsey industry in Ghana. Oxford Development Studies. 44(4), 493-508

     

    8.  Sakyi, F. K., Fei-Baffoe, B., Afriyie, K. & Agbenyega, O. (2015) Assessment of land use and land cover changes in Pru District of Ghana using GIS and Remote Sensing 2 (3), 162-170

     

    9.  Ganle, J. K., Afriyie, K. & Segbefia A. Y. (2015) Microcredit: Empowerment and disempowerment of rural women in Ghana. World Development, 66, 335-345.

     

    10.  Afriyie, K. Abass, K. & Boateng, M (2015): A journey to the South: Socio-economic implications for young female head porters in the Central Business District of Kumasi. International Journal of Migration and Residential Mobility, 1(2), 176-194.

     

    11.  Afriyie, K., Abass, K. and Adomako, J. A. A. (2014) Urbanisation of the rural landscape: Assessing the effects in peri-urban Kumasi. International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development, 6(1), 1-19.

     

    12.  Boateng, M., Appiah, D. O. and Afriyie, K. (2014), Socio-environmental responses to solid waste management in urban areas: The case of Atonsu suburban in Kumasi Metropolis, Ghana Interdisciplinary Environmental Review, 15(1), 48-55.

     

    13.  Adjei, P. O. W., Kyei, P. O., and Afriyie, K. (2014), Global economic crisis and socio-economic vulnerability: Historical experience and lessons from the ‘lost decade’ for Africa in the 1980s. Ghana Studies, 17, 39-63.

     

    14.  Asante, F., Abass, K., and Afriyie, K. (2014), Stone quarrying and livelihood transformation in peri-urban Kumasi’ Research on Humanities and Social Sciences, 4(13), 93-107.

     

    15.  Abass, K., Afriyie, K. and Adomako, J. A. A. (2013) Household responses to livelihood transformation in peri-urban Kumasi. Journal of Sustainable Development, 6(6), 121-136.

     

    16.  Adjei, P. O-W., Agyemang, S. and Afriyie, K. (2012) Non-governmental organisations and rural poverty reduction in Northern Ghana: Perspectives of beneficiaries on strategies, impact and challenges, Journal of Poverty Alleviation and International Development, 3 (2), 47-73

     

    17.  Akabzaa, T. M., Somuah, S., Afriyie, K. And Seyire, J. S. (2010) Health influences of mining activities on local communities at the periphery of mining facilities at the Obuasi area. CASS Journal of Art and Humanities, 1(1), 25-42.

     

    18.  Afriyie, K. & Abass, K. (2020) Profiting from illegality: a discursive analysis of the chainsaw operation in rural Ghana. Forestry Policy and Economics, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2020.102174

     

    19.  Afriyie, K., Ganle, J. K., Segbefia, A. Y., Kamau, P. & Wamue-Ngare, G. (2020). Context matters: stakeholders’ perspectives on the contextual factors which affect the success of microcredit programmes for poverty reduction among women in Ashanti, Northern and Volta regions. Journal of Developing Societies, DOI: 10.1177/0169796X20909032

     

    20.  Kabila Abass, Daniel Buor, Kwadwo Afriyie, Gift Dumedah, Alex Yao Segbefi, Lawrence Guodaar, Emmanuel Kofi Garsonu, Samuel Adu-Gyamfi, David Forkuor, Andrews Ofosu, Abass Mohammed, Razak M Gyasi (2020). Urban sprawl and green space depletion: Implications for flood incidence in Kumasi, Ghana. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 51,101915

     

    21.  Abass, K. & Afriyie, K. (2020). Urban spread is turning the lives of Ghanaian farmers upside down. The Conversation.


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