Dr. Daniel Nukpezah

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Dr. Daniel Nukpezah

Dr. Dan Nukpezah is an Environmental Scientist and a Senior Research Fellow with the Institute for Environment and Sanitation Studies (IESS), University of Ghana (UG). His teaching and research interests are in freshwater protection at the catchment scale; climate change adaptation; environmental governance; ecosystem-based disaster risk assessment and management; and large dams’ impacts on ecosystems functioning and community livelihoods. He supervises graduate students and also teaches several courses at the graduate level including Environmental Law, Sustainability and Industrial Ecology and Water Governance for Sustainability. Dan is a team member of Work Package 1: Biophysical and Climate Related Studies for the Coastal Community Resilience to Climate and Diarrhoea (C2RCD) project. He is leading investigations on understanding the different coastal ecosystem types (mangroves etc.) and how they impact climate resilience and diarrhoea risk reduction.