DAAD climapAfrica Postdoctoral Fellow
Simon Diedong University of Business and Integrated Development Studies
Ghana
Dr. Frederick Dapilah is currently a Lecturer at Simon Diedong University of Business and Integrated Development Studies, Ghana. He studied Development Studies (B.A) and Geography(M.Phil) at the University for Development Studies and University of Ghana respectively and obtained his doctorate in Human Geography at Humboldt University, Berlin. Frederick’s research broadly focuses on human-environment relations and in particular dimensions of adaptive capacity and resilience in the context of climate change and disaster risk. In climapAfrica, Frederick’s research is concerned with understanding how borderless climate risk is shaping climate mobilities and what transnational adaptation governance options are possible in the West Africa.
Climate change expertise and interests
- Climate change adaptation and resilience
- National Determined Contributions (NDCs)
- Climate finance and policy
Publications (3 most recent)
Dapilah, F and Nielsen JØ (2020). Climate change extremes and barriers to successful adaptation outcomes: Disentangling a paradox in the semi-arid savanna zone of northern Ghana. Ambio, 49, 1437-1449. https://rd.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs13280-019-01275-x
Dapilah, F., Nielsen, J.Ø., Friis, C (2020): The role of social networks in building adaptive capacity and resilience to climate change: a case study from northern Ghana, Climate and Development 12(1)42-56 https://doi.org/10.1080/17565529.2019.1596063
Dapilah, F, Nielsen, JØ, Lebek, K., D’haen, SAL (2020) (In review): He who pays the piper calls the tune: understanding collaborative governance and climate change adaptation in northern Ghana. Submitted to Geojournal
I participate at climapAfrica because…
ClimapAfrica provides a unique and flexible research funding opportunities for the training of the next generation of Early Career scholars from Africa in the field of climate research through the development and promotion of peer professional networks.
