Dr. Yaw Agyeman Boafo
Accra, Ghana
Yaw Agyeman Boafo is a Senior Research Fellow in Sustainability Science at the Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability Studies, University of Ghana, Legon. Yaw is an interdisciplinary scholar with a background in socio-ecological systems resilience. Yaw draws on conceptual and theoretical approaches to examine the implications of human-nature interactions in urban and rural landscapes. His research and teaching interests center around climate change and sustainability assessment, focusing on urbanization, biodiversity, and ecosystem services; adaptation and mitigation; disaster risk reduction and resilience; food and farming systems. Over the past five years, Yaw has been actively involved in the global biodiversity and ecosystem research network and serving as a Lead Author for the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) Global Assessment of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (Deliverable 2c). His work has been published in leading journals, including Sustainability Science, Ecosystem Services, and Weather and Climate. He also undertakes to referee for several international journals and book publishers.