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Ebenezer F Amankwaa

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

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Verified email at ug.edu.gh Associate Professor, University of Ghana ORCID 0000-0002-8735-2521 Google Scholar

CollegeCOLLEGE OF HUMANITIES
School / InstituteSCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
DepartmentDEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY AND RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
Development studiesenvironmental sustainabilityclimate change adaptation
Publications

80

Citations

1,770

H-index

22

i10-index

38

Publication activity
Publication statistics
Average citations
22.1
Most cited paper
132
First publication year
1900
Latest publication year
2026
Last updated
13 Sep 2026, 22:54
Publications

80 matching publications

PublicationYearJournalThematic areaCitations
Livelihoods in motion: Linking transport, mobility and income-generating activities
J Esson, KV Gough, D Simon, EF Amankwaa, O Ninot, PWK Yankson
2016 Journal of Transport Geography 55, 182-188, 2016 Social Sciences 132
Impact of extreme weather conditions on healthcare provision in urban Ghana
SNA Codjoe, KV Gough, RL Wilby, R Kasei, PWK Yankson, ...
2020 Social Science & Medicine 258, 113072, 2020 Social Sciences 131
‘Away’is a place: The impact of electronic waste recycling on blood lead levels in Ghana
EF Amankwaa, KAA Tsikudo, JA Bowman
2017 Science of the total environment 601, 1566-1574, 2017 Social Sciences 114
Livelihoods in risk: Exploring health and environmental implications of e-waste recycling as a livelihood strategy in Ghana
EF Amankwaa
2013 The Journal of Modern African Studies 51 (4), 551-575, 2013 Health Sciences 114
Cities and extreme weather events: impacts of flooding and extreme heat on water and electricity services in Ghana
SM Kayaga, EF Amankwaa, KV Gough, RL Wilby, MA Abarike, ...
2021 Environment and Urbanization 33 (1), 131-150, 2021 Social Sciences 105
The local contours of scavenging for e-waste and higher-valued constituent parts in Accra, Ghana
M Oteng-Ababio, EF Amankwaa, MA Chama
2014 Habitat International 43, 163-171, 2014 Social Sciences 98
Everyday contours and politics of infrastructure: Informal governance of electricity access in urban Ghana
EF Amankwaa, KV Gough
2022 Urban Studies 59 (12), 2468-2488, 2022 Social Sciences 77
Vulnerability to extreme weather events in cities: implications for infrastructure and livelihoods
KV Gough, P Yankson, R Wilby, E Amankwaa, M Abarike, S Codjoe, ...
2019 Loughborough University, 2019 Social Sciences 74
Monitoring and moderating extreme indoor temperatures in low-income urban communities
RL Wilby, R Kasei, KV Gough, EF Amankwaa, M Abarike, NJ Anderson, ...
2021 Environmental Research Letters 16 (2), 024033, 2021 Social Sciences 71
The role of crises in transformative change towards sustainability
C Pahl-Wostl, ON Odume, G Scholz, A De Villiers, EF Amankwaa
2023 Ecosystems and People 19 (1), 2188087, 2023 Social Sciences 62
The e-waste conundrum: Balancing evidence from the North and on-the-ground developing countries' realities for improved management
M Oteng-Ababio, EF Amankwaa
2014 African Review of Economics and Finance 6 (1), 181-204, 2014 Social Sciences 55
SARS-CoV-2 viral shedding and transmission dynamics: implications of WHO COVID-19 discharge guidelines
K Badu, K Oyebola, JZB Zahouli, AF Fagbamigbe, DK de Souza, N Dukhi, ...
2021 Frontiers in Medicine 8, 648660, 2021 Health Sciences 53
Accra’s poverty trap: Analysing water provision in urban Ghana
EF Amankwaa, AB Owusu, G Owusu, F Eshun
2014 Journal of Social Science for Policy Implications 2 (2), 69-89, 2014 Social Sciences 53
Spatial and social transformations in a secondary city: the role of mobility in Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana
PWK Yankson, KV Gough, J Esson, EF Amankwaa
2017 Geografisk Tidsskrift-Danish Journal of Geography 117 (2), 82-92, 2017 Social Sciences 48
‘We are at the mercy of the floods!’: Extreme weather events, disrupted mobilities, and everyday navigation in urban Ghana
EF Amankwaa, KV Gough
2023 Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 44 (2), 235-254, 2023 Social Sciences 43
Geographies of youth, mobile phones, and the urban hustle
EF Amankwaa, J Esson, KV Gough
2020 The Geographical Journal 186 (4), 362-374, 2020 Social Sciences 42
Women and men at the traffic lights: The (re) configuration and (re) gendering of street water vending in Ghana
EF Amankwaa
2017 GeoJournal 82 (2), 329-344, 2017 Social Sciences 34
Boys are tired! Youth, urban struggles, and retaliatory patriarchy
J Esson, EF Amankwaa, P Mensah
2021 Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 46 (1), 193-207, 2021 Social Sciences 33
E-waste livelihoods, environment and health risks: unpacking the connections in Ghana
EF Amankwaa
2014 West African Journal of Applied Ecology 22 (2), 1-15, 2014 Health Sciences 32
Trace metal levels of the Odaw river sediments at the Agbogbloshie e-waste recycling site
MA ChAmA, EF AmAnkwA, M Oteng-Ababio
2014 Journal of Science and Technology 34 (1), 2014 Social Sciences 30
Cities at risk? Exploring the synergies between smartphones and everyday vulnerabilities
EF Amankwaa, KB Blay
2018 Cities 83, 129-139, 2018 Social Sciences 29
Qualitative analysis of the presence of PBDE in ashes, soils and vegetables from Agbogbloshie e-waste recycling site
M Oteng-Ababio, EF Amankwaa
2014 Social Sciences 28
City dynamics: mobility and livelihoods of urban residents
K Gough, J Esson, MH Andreasen, H Mainet, A Namangaya, ...
2015 Loughborough University, 2015 Social Sciences 22
" It is getting too hot lately": Urban households' knowledge, experiences and governance of extreme heat events in Accra, Ghana
YA Boafo, EF Amankwaa, C Spataru, P Carvalho
2025 Urban Climate 59, 102287, 2025 Social Sciences 20
Water and electricity access for home-based enterprises and poverty reduction in the greater Accra metropolitan area (GAMA)
EF Amankwaa
2017 Ghana PhD Thesis University of Ghana, 2017 Social Sciences 20