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Lawrence Kwabena Brobbey

Silviculture and Forest Management

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About

Dr Lawrence Kwabena Brobbey is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Silviculture and Forest Management of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Ghana. Dr Brobbey has a diverse academic background: BSc Natural Resources Management (KNUST); MPhil Silviculture and Forest Management (KNUST); MBA Banking and Finance (KNUST); and PhD Silviculture and Forest Management (KNUST) and Forest Governance (University of Copenhagen, Denmark). He combines academic work with practice and has worked with government agencies and international non-governmental organisations. His research spans from natural resources tenure and access; environmental justice and commodity chain analysis. He also has a speciality in rural livelihoods; communities’ adaptation to climate change; and public policy. He has published some leading-edge articles in top environmental and forest journals and has also reviewed several manuscripts. Dr Brobbey also served as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow under a DANIDA funded project, “Access and Authority Nexus in the Farmer-Herder Conflicts in Ghana”. The project investigates the dynamic processes of formation and erosion of access, identities and authority in spatial and historical perspectives.

Research Summary

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The researcher's work is centered on developing a comprehensive and integrative approach to address the multifaceted challenges faced by communities in Western Ghana. This integrated research strategy spans several key domains, including sustainable agriculture, rural development, environmental impact assessments, occupational health, animal welfare, and community issues related to resource management and social justice. The researcher's efforts are dedicated to understanding and mitigating the interplay between social, economic, and environmental factors that influence livelihoods, ecological sustainability, and public health concerns.

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Fishing for survival: Importance of shark fisheries for the livelihoods of coastal communities in Western Ghana(2021)
“Every fish in the sea is meat and so are guitarfishes”: Socio-economic drivers of a guitarfish fishery in Ghana(2022)
Local Ecological Knowledge, Catch Characteristics, and Evidence of Elasmobranch Depletions in Western Ghana Artisanal Fisheries(2022)
Fishing for survival: importance of shark fisheries for the livelihoods of coastal communities in Western Ghana(2021)
Species composition, seasonality and biological characteristics of Western Ghana’s elasmobranch fishery(2022)
Local ecological knowledge, catch characteristics and evidence of elasmobranch depletions in Western Ghana(2021)
Local Ecological Knowledge, Catch Characteristics, and Evidence of Elasmobranch Depletions in Western Ghana Artisanal Fisheries(2022)
The economic importance of charcoal to rural livelihoods: Evidence from a key charcoal-producing area in Ghana(2019)
Factors influencing participation and income from charcoal production and trade in Ghana(2019)
Financial autonomy and income for emergencies drive women at the Sekyere Afram Plains District of Ghana to produce charcoal(2025)
The dynamics of property and other mechanisms of access: The case of charcoal production and trade in Ghana(2020)
Community forest monitoring and the social reproduction of inequalities in Ghana(2022)
Transparency in the governance of landscape restoration finance: A case study of Ghana's Forest Plantation Development Fund(2019)
Customary authorities and decentralized natural resource management: A review(2021)
Environmentality and the making of compliant subjects: Insights from collaborative forest management innovations in Southwestern Ghana(2025)
Awareness of occupational hazards, and attitudes and practices towards the use of personal protective equipment among informal woodworkers: the case of the Sokoban Wood Village in Ghana(2021)
Insights, motives, and means of overcoming forest offenses in Ghana's forestry sector: The case of the Bibiani Forest District(2021)
Post-exploitation bark recovery rates of some medicinal tree species in Ghana(2022)
Conflict actors influence the dynamics of agropastoral policies to accommodate their preferences and expectations in Ghana(2024)
Cattle violence: the politics and fantasies of cattle ranching in Ghana(2024)
Supply Chain Analysis of Cocoyam in Ghana(2018)
Practices and informal institutions governing artisanal gillnet fisheries in Western Ghana(2024)
Who Benefits from Informal Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining (Asm) in Ghana? Evidence from the Amansie West District(2025)

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