DR. ESTHER E. AMOAKOLECTURERDEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY SCIENCESFACULTY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENTNYANKPALA Campus
Background
Dr Esther Ekua Amfoa Amoako is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Environment and Sustainability Sciences. She has been teaching for about 15 years, from undergraduate to doctoral level, and has over 25 years working experience with local to international non-governmental organisations in community development, environmental management and gender advocacy.
Her research focuses on anthropogenic fires in savanna ecosystems, biodiversity conservation, sustainable land management, climate change and gender and development. She has conducted research on fire and land uses, climate change and sustainable land management in Iceland, Tanzania, Uganda, South Africa in Fellowships funded by the United Nations Land Restoration Training programme, Association of Commonwealth Universities, the African Academy of Science and OWSD.
She collaborates with Tree Aid and NORSAAC and other organisations in the Wildland Fire networks including Pau Costa Foundation, the Association of Fire Ecology and Bii4africa. Dr Amoako is a core member of the Pan African Restoration Education Group of Global Landscapes Forum and CIFOR-ICRAF. She was nominated as a Kumvana Fellow for gender advocacy and mainstreaming by the Engineers Boarders, Canada in 2016. She is currently the Director for Gender and Career Mentorship, UDS.
Education
PhD Environmental Science. Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa. 2016-2022
MSc. Environmental Resource Management. Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana. 2002-2006
Awoonor, J.K., Amoako, E.E., Dogbey, B.F., Wiredu, I. (2024). Quantitative analysis of soil degradation in response to land use change in the Guinea savanna zone of Ghana. Geoderma Regional Volume 37, June 2024, e00779. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geodrs.2024.e00779
Clements, H.S. et. al., (2024). The bii4africa dataset of faunal and floral population intactness estimates across Africa’s major land uses. Scientific Data 11(191), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02832-6
Amoako E.E., Issifu, H., Husseini, R. (2023). The effects of prescribed dry season burning on woody species composition, Mole National Park, Ghana. Tropical Conservation Science 16, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1177/19400829231164936
Amoako, E.E., Gambiza, J. (2022). Fire use practices, knowledge and perceptions in a West African savanna parkland. PLoS ONE 17, e0240271. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0240271
Amoako, E.E., J. Gambiza (2021). Effects of Fire on the Population Structure and Abundance of Anogeissus leiocarpa and Vitellaria paradoxa in a West African savanna parkland. Acta Oecologica, 112, 103745.
Amoako, E.E. and Gambiza, J. (2019). Effects of anthropogenic fires on soil properties and the implications of fire frequency for the Guinea savanna ecological zone, Ghana, Scientific African, 6(2019), 11. doi: 10.1016/j.sciaf. 2019.e00201
Asante, P., Amoako, E.E., Denteh, S.N. (2019). Assessment of Hospital Solid Waste Management in Tamale Metropolis: A Case Study of Tamale West and Central Hospitals. International Journal of Waste Resource 8, 1-8
Amoako, E. E., Misana, S. Kranjac-Berisavljevic, G., Zizinga, A., Ballu Duwiejuah, A. (2018). Effect of the seasonal burning on tree species in the guinea savanna woodland, Ghana: implications for climate change mitigation’, Applied Ecology and Environmental Research, 16(2), 1935–1949. doi: 10.15666/aeer/1602_19351949
Amoako, E.E. Donkoh S.A., Ansah, I. G. K. (2017). Socio-economic Study On The Threats and Effects of Climate Change on Local Livelihood in Selected Districts of the Northern Region of Ghana. 海角乱伦社区International Journal of Development, 4 No. 1, http://www.udsijd.org
Zizinga, A., Kangalawe, Andrew Ainslie, Moses M. Tenywa, Jackson Majaliwa, Naome Jones Saronga and Esther E. Amoako (2017). Analysis of Farmer’s Choices for Climate Change Adaptation Practices in South-Western, Uganda, 1980–2009. MDPI climate 5, 89. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cli5040089
Amoako, E. E., Asante, W.J., Cobbinah, S., Kuuder, C.J.W., Adongo, R., Lawer (2015). Tree Tenure and Sustainable land Management. A case of Parkia biglobosa in the Northern Region of Ghana. Journal of Natural Resource and Development 5, 59-64
Frimpong J. O., Amoako, E.E., Nkoom, M. (2015). Assessment of Physicochemical and Microbial Quality Of Water In Ke-Nya Stream At Babato-Kuma Community In The Kintampo North Municipal AssemblyOf Brong Ahafo Region Of Ghana. International Journal Of Scientific & Technology Research 4, 6
Raymond Adongo, Conrad-J. Wuleka Kuuder1, Esther E. Amoako, Wilhemina Asare, Abudu Ballu Duwiejuah, Vida Arthur (2015). Stakeholder Views on Waste and Its Management in Tamale Metropolis, Ghana. Journal of Scientific Research & Reports 6, 340-349
Amoako, E.E. and Apusiga, A.A. (2014). Gender, Migration and Remittances in Ghana. An Overview. Ghana Journal of Development Studies 10, 2.
Kuleape, R, Cobbinah, S. J, Dampare, S. B., Duweijiah, A. B., Amoako E.E., Asare, W. (2014). Assessment of Energy Recovery Potentials of Solid waste generated in Akosombo, Ghana. African Journal of Environmental Science and Technology 8, 297-305
Kuuder Conrad-J. Wuleka, Ernest Bagson, Vida Mintah Prempeh, Abu Mumuni1, Raymond Adongo, Esther Ekua Amoako (2013). Energy, Water and Waste Management in the Accommodation Sector of Tamale Metropolis, Ghana. American Journal of Tourism Management 2, 1-9.
E.K Asiam, E. Buabeng (2008). Some Environmental Issues of Inland Valleys. A Case Study. Ghana Mining journal 10, 38-42.
Amoako E. E. 2015. UNU-LRT Symposium- Land degradation in Ghana: Capacity Building Gaps. International Conference for the Society for Ecological restoration. 22 -27 August 2015. Manchester, UK.
Amoako, E. E., Misana, S. Nyomora, A., Krajac-Berisaljevic, G. 2015. The impact of seasonal anthropogenic bush burning on plant species and soil in West African savanna/parklands. A case of Northern region, Ghana, paper presented at the Conference of Society for Ecological Restoration, Manchester, UK. 22 -27 August, 2015.
Amoako, E. E., Nakanyala, J., Nasedjanov, M., Nsimiire, W., Jargalsaikhan G., Awoonor J., Awilli, A., Lhagvajav O., Tjirumbu L. and Amgaa. B. 2012. The Quest for Sustainable Land Use and Restoration - Experiences from Africa and Asia. Paper presented at Soils, Governance and Society: Shaping Innovations in Natural Resource Governance Conference, 4 June 2012, Reykjavik, Iceland.
Dartey P.K.A., Tetteh F.M., Buabeng E., Esiam E.K., Lamptey J.N.L. and Sie M. 2006. Evaluation of lowland Nericas in the forest zone of Ghana. Africa Rice Congress Conference Proceedings, 31 Jul – 04 Aug 2006. Dares Salaam, Tanzania: African Crop Science Society and West Africa Rice Development Association. Eds. Narteh L.T., Tenywa J.S., Nampala P., Kawube G. 99-103.
Amoako, E. E. and Gambiza, J. 2019. Effects of fire on the population structure and abundance of Anogeissus leiocarpa and Vitellaria paradoxa in the Guinea savanna, Ghana’, 44th New Phytologist Symposium: Determinants of tropical vegetation structure and function. Swiss Spirit Hotel and Suites Alisa, Accra, Ghana, 7– 9 August 2019.
Amoako E. E. 2018. Fire effects on indigenous tree species in the Guinea savanna: Implications for climate change mitigation. SER Europe Conference 10 – 13 September 2018, Reykjavik, Iceland
Organisation of Women in Science in Developing Countries PhD Fellowship Award, Trieste, Italy, July 2016 – June 2020
MIKE Da LUZ Student Travel Award for Academic Excellence and a Research that has potential of contributing to the Wildland Fire Community, presented by the Association of Fire Ecology. Texas, USA, 2015
Climate Impacts Research Capacity and Leadership Enhancement (CIRCLE) Visiting Fellow Award, University of Dar es salaam, Tanzania, the Association of Commonwealth Universities and the African Academy of Sciences 2015
MASHAV scholarship, Agri-green Environmental Considerations in Climate change, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, 2013
