DAAD climapAfrica Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Ghana
Dr. Enoch Bessah is currently a lecturer at the Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana. His research interests are climate change, soil and land-use science and engineering, water resources management, ecosystem services and integrated assessments and modelling. In climapAfrica, his research will seek to quantify and cost the flood risk mitigation services provided by landscape-scale green infrastructure in Nigeria (Ibadan) and Ghana (Accra), in order to contribute to the debate on the payment of ecosystem services as a mitigation and adaptation measure to climate change.
Climate change expertise and interests
Climate change impact, vulnerability & adaptation assessment and modelling, Ecosystem Services, Water resources assessment and modelling
Publications (most recent)
Bessah, E., Raji, A.O., Taiwo, O.J., Agodzo, S.K., Ololade, O.O. and Strapasson, A. (2020). Hydrological impacts of climate and land use changes: The paradox of regional and local climate effect in the Pra River Basin of Ghana. Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies. 27, 100654. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejrh.2019.100654
Bessah, E., Raji, A.O., Taiwo, O.J., Agodzo, S.K. and Ololade, O.O. (2019). The impact of varying spatial resolution of climate models on future rainfall simulations in the Pra River Basin (Ghana). Journal of Water and Climate Change. doi:10.2166/wcc.2019.258
Bessah, E., Bala, A., Agodzo, S.K., Okhimamhe, A.A., Boakye, E.A. & Ibrahim, S.U. (2019). The Impact of Crop Farmers’ Decisions on Future Land-Use Land-cover Changes in Kintampo North Municipality of Ghana. International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management. 11(1): 72 – 87. doi:10.1108/IJCCSM-05-2017-0114.
I participate at climapAfrica because...
It creates a unique platform for African researchers to network and collaborate with each other in similar areas of research interest and benefit from expertise of German Scientists to develop climate change research capacity in Africa and for Africa.
