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Environmental Management

Humans depend on healthy environments, yet our activities often degrade them. Effective environmental management requires understanding natural systems, our relationship to them, and how to sustain them for future generations.

We research practical solutions across waste management, water treatment, resource recovery, and land reclamation. Our work generates evidence that shapes environmental policy and management practices.

WaterWasteRecovery

Focus Areas

  • Faecal sludge management
  • Solid waste engineering and management
  • Water and wastewater treatment
  • Waste-to-energy
  • Resource recovery
  • Environmental remediation
  • Water resource management
  • Land reclamation (mining, oil and gas decommissioning)

Led by

1

Prof Eric Ofosu Antwi

2,381 citations, highest in Centre; integrated water resources, hydropower, irrigation, waste management.

2

Prof Francis Kwaku Attiogbe

Full Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering; water resources, plastics in drinking water, mining impacts.

3

Dr Prince Antwi-Agyei

Faecal sludge and solid waste management leadership.

4

Dr Nana Osei Bonsu Ackerson

Water and wastewater treatment, WASH, emerging contaminants.

5

Dr Emmanuel Kwesi Nyantakyi

Head of EORIC, 507 citations; soil erosion assessment, mining land-use change, land reclamation.

6

Paul Kofi Nsiah

Mine land reclamation, degraded land rehabilitation, soil amendment.

7

Samuel Akowuah Okyereh

Integrated water resources management, solar-powered irrigation, environmental data analysis.