Mumuni Abu
Biographic Data
| ID | 1167118 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mumuni Abu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mumuni |
| FAMILY NAME | Abu |
| SIGNATURE | ABU M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ghana |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6455-0162 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The association between Wash, menstrual hygiene management, attendance and learning outcomes among girls in Ghana
Despite progress in girls’ school enrolment in many low-and-middle-income countries, gendered inequalities in educational outcomes persist, partly driven by school conditions. This study examines the relationships between school-based water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) facilities, school attendance, menstrual hygiene management (MHM), and learning outcomes among girls in Ghana. The study utilises cross-sectional data from 875 primary and junio…
Gender dimensions of adaptive capacity and adaptation responses to climate shocks in rural households
In agrarian economies, household gender roles and demographic structure influence how families respond to climate shocks, affecting investment decisions, risk-spreading strategies, and all choices of adaptation options and adaptive capacity investments. Here we show that differential adaptive capacities, as a set of capabilities as well as assets, are distributed unevenly by gender leading to divergent choices between adaptation options in places…
Who Aspires for International Migration? An Exploration of the Role of Internal Migration, Capacities and Relative Deprivation
Who aspires to migrate internationally? This question has occupied the research agendas of many migration scholars. In this paper, we aim to answer this question using unique life history survey data collected among 604 internal migrants and non-migrants residing in Accra, Ghana. By making a comparison between the two groups, we explore the role of internal migration experiences in affecting international migration aspirations. Building upon the …
The impact of migration on culturally-embedded and subjective perceptions of habitability in a context of environmental change
Environmental change is increasingly challenging the habitability of places around the world, particularly with regard to resource-dependent rural areas in the Global South. Apart from objectively measurable, bio-physical indices, it is likewise important to look at individual and group-specific perceptions of habitability, which are embedded in their respective socio-cultural context(s). Migration as a well-established household risk diversifica…
Habitability for a connected, unequal and changing world
The concept of habitability is gaining momentum in climate and environmental studies. • Present conceptualizations lack socio-cultural integration and local context. • Need for intersectionally and locally differentiated assessments of habitability. • Full understanding of habitability need to consider connectivity and tele-coupling. • Research should integrate diverse methodologies and local perspectives. As global climate change intensifies, th…
Covid-19 responses restricted abilities and aspirations for mobility and migration
Research on the impacts of COVID-19 on mobility has focused primarily on the increased health vulnerabilities of involuntary migrant and displaced populations. But virtually all migration flows have been truncated and altered because of reduced economic and mobility opportunities of migrants. Here we use a well-established framework of migration decision-making, whereby individual decisions combine the aspiration and ability to migrate, to explai…
Evaluating migration as successful adaptation to climate change
The role of migration as one potential adaptation to climate change is increasingly recognized, but little is known about whether migration constitutes successful adaptation, under what conditions, and for whom. Based on a review of emerging migration science, we propose that migration is a successful adaptation to climate change if it increases well-being, reduces inequality, and promotes sustainability. Well-being, equity, and sustainability re…
Micro-scale transformations in sustainability practices
Health and wellbeing implications of adaptation to flood risk
Adaptation strategies to ameliorate the impacts of climate change are increasing in scale and scope around the world, with interventions becoming a part of daily life for many people. Though the implications of climate impacts for health and wellbeing are well documented, to date, adaptations are largely evaluated by financial cost and their effectiveness in reducing risk. Looking across different forms of adaptation to floods, we use existing li…
Sociodemographic and geophysical determinants of household vulnerability to coastal hazards in the Volta Delta, Ghana
Perceived environmental risks and insecurity reduce future migration intentions in hazardous migration source areas
The migration-sustainability paradox
Migration represents a major transformation of the lives of those involved and has been transformative of societies and economies globally. Yet models of sustainability transformations do not effectively incorporate the movement of populations. There is an apparent migration-sustainability paradox: migration plays a role as a driver of unsustainability as part of economic globalisation, yet simultaneously represents a transformative phenomenon an…
Urban sustainability and the subjective well‐being of migrants
While material conditions of migrant populations on average tend to improve over time as they become established in new destinations, individual trajectories of material and subjective well‐being often diverge. Here, we analyse how social and environmental factors in the urban environment shape the subjective well‐being of migrant populations. We hypothesise these factors to include (a) perceived social and environmental risk, (b) attachment to p…
A Comparative Analysis of the Social and Demographic Factors in Ghanaian Political Party Affiliations
Since 1992, political power in Ghana alternates between the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the New Patriotic Party (NPP). Yet beyond extrapolations from previous election results not much is known about the socio-demographic characteristics of the core membership of these two political parties. Using data from the Ghana Opinion Poll study conducted by the Centre for Policy Research and the Fredrich Ebert Stiftung, Ghana in April 2018, thi…
Assessing vulnerability of horticultural smallholders’ to climate variability in Ghana
Experience and Future Perceived Risk of Floods and Diarrheal Disease in Urban Poor Communities in Accra, Ghana
Diarrheal disease is a critical health condition in urban areas of developing countries due to increasing urbanization and its associated problems of sanitation and poor access to good drinking water. Increasing floods in cities have been linked to the risk of diarrheal disease. There are few studies that specifically link flooding with diarrhea diseases. This may be due to the fact that secondary data mainly hospital recorded cases, and not indi…
Climate change and internal migration intentions in the forest-savannah transition zone of Ghana
Climate change and internal migration intentions in the forest-savannah transition zone of Ghana
Urban sustainability and the subjective well‐being of migrants
While material conditions of migrant populations on average tend to improve over time as they become established in new destinations, individual trajectories of material and subjective well‐being often diverge. Here, we analyse how social and environmental factors in the urban environment shape the subjective well‐being of migrant populations. We hypothesise these factors to include (a) perceived social and environmental risk, (b) attachment to p…
Habitability for a connected, unequal and changing world
The concept of habitability is gaining momentum in climate and environmental studies. • Present conceptualizations lack socio-cultural integration and local context. • Need for intersectionally and locally differentiated assessments of habitability. • Full understanding of habitability need to consider connectivity and tele-coupling. • Research should integrate diverse methodologies and local perspectives. As global climate change intensifies, th…
The migration-sustainability paradox
Migration represents a major transformation of the lives of those involved and has been transformative of societies and economies globally. Yet models of sustainability transformations do not effectively incorporate the movement of populations. There is an apparent migration-sustainability paradox: migration plays a role as a driver of unsustainability as part of economic globalisation, yet simultaneously represents a transformative phenomenon an…
Micro-scale transformations in sustainability practices
Health and wellbeing implications of adaptation to flood risk
Adaptation strategies to ameliorate the impacts of climate change are increasing in scale and scope around the world, with interventions becoming a part of daily life for many people. Though the implications of climate impacts for health and wellbeing are well documented, to date, adaptations are largely evaluated by financial cost and their effectiveness in reducing risk. Looking across different forms of adaptation to floods, we use existing li…
Climate change and internal migration intentions in the forest-savannah transition zone of Ghana
Experience and Future Perceived Risk of Floods and Diarrheal Disease in Urban Poor Communities in Accra, Ghana
Diarrheal disease is a critical health condition in urban areas of developing countries due to increasing urbanization and its associated problems of sanitation and poor access to good drinking water. Increasing floods in cities have been linked to the risk of diarrheal disease. There are few studies that specifically link flooding with diarrhea diseases. This may be due to the fact that secondary data mainly hospital recorded cases, and not indi…
Assessing vulnerability of horticultural smallholders’ to climate variability in Ghana
Perceived environmental risks and insecurity reduce future migration intentions in hazardous migration source areas
The migration-sustainability paradox
Migration represents a major transformation of the lives of those involved and has been transformative of societies and economies globally. Yet models of sustainability transformations do not effectively incorporate the movement of populations. There is an apparent migration-sustainability paradox: migration plays a role as a driver of unsustainability as part of economic globalisation, yet simultaneously represents a transformative phenomenon an…
Urban sustainability and the subjective well‐being of migrants
While material conditions of migrant populations on average tend to improve over time as they become established in new destinations, individual trajectories of material and subjective well‐being often diverge. Here, we analyse how social and environmental factors in the urban environment shape the subjective well‐being of migrant populations. We hypothesise these factors to include (a) perceived social and environmental risk, (b) attachment to p…
A Comparative Analysis of the Social and Demographic Factors in Ghanaian Political Party Affiliations
Since 1992, political power in Ghana alternates between the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the New Patriotic Party (NPP). Yet beyond extrapolations from previous election results not much is known about the socio-demographic characteristics of the core membership of these two political parties. Using data from the Ghana Opinion Poll study conducted by the Centre for Policy Research and the Fredrich Ebert Stiftung, Ghana in April 2018, thi…
Sociodemographic and geophysical determinants of household vulnerability to coastal hazards in the Volta Delta, Ghana
Covid-19 responses restricted abilities and aspirations for mobility and migration
Research on the impacts of COVID-19 on mobility has focused primarily on the increased health vulnerabilities of involuntary migrant and displaced populations. But virtually all migration flows have been truncated and altered because of reduced economic and mobility opportunities of migrants. Here we use a well-established framework of migration decision-making, whereby individual decisions combine the aspiration and ability to migrate, to explai…
Evaluating migration as successful adaptation to climate change
The role of migration as one potential adaptation to climate change is increasingly recognized, but little is known about whether migration constitutes successful adaptation, under what conditions, and for whom. Based on a review of emerging migration science, we propose that migration is a successful adaptation to climate change if it increases well-being, reduces inequality, and promotes sustainability. Well-being, equity, and sustainability re…
Micro-scale transformations in sustainability practices
Health and wellbeing implications of adaptation to flood risk
Adaptation strategies to ameliorate the impacts of climate change are increasing in scale and scope around the world, with interventions becoming a part of daily life for many people. Though the implications of climate impacts for health and wellbeing are well documented, to date, adaptations are largely evaluated by financial cost and their effectiveness in reducing risk. Looking across different forms of adaptation to floods, we use existing li…
The impact of migration on culturally-embedded and subjective perceptions of habitability in a context of environmental change
Environmental change is increasingly challenging the habitability of places around the world, particularly with regard to resource-dependent rural areas in the Global South. Apart from objectively measurable, bio-physical indices, it is likewise important to look at individual and group-specific perceptions of habitability, which are embedded in their respective socio-cultural context(s). Migration as a well-established household risk diversifica…
Habitability for a connected, unequal and changing world
The concept of habitability is gaining momentum in climate and environmental studies. • Present conceptualizations lack socio-cultural integration and local context. • Need for intersectionally and locally differentiated assessments of habitability. • Full understanding of habitability need to consider connectivity and tele-coupling. • Research should integrate diverse methodologies and local perspectives. As global climate change intensifies, th…
Gender dimensions of adaptive capacity and adaptation responses to climate shocks in rural households
In agrarian economies, household gender roles and demographic structure influence how families respond to climate shocks, affecting investment decisions, risk-spreading strategies, and all choices of adaptation options and adaptive capacity investments. Here we show that differential adaptive capacities, as a set of capabilities as well as assets, are distributed unevenly by gender leading to divergent choices between adaptation options in places…
Who Aspires for International Migration? An Exploration of the Role of Internal Migration, Capacities and Relative Deprivation
Who aspires to migrate internationally? This question has occupied the research agendas of many migration scholars. In this paper, we aim to answer this question using unique life history survey data collected among 604 internal migrants and non-migrants residing in Accra, Ghana. By making a comparison between the two groups, we explore the role of internal migration experiences in affecting international migration aspirations. Building upon the …
The association between Wash, menstrual hygiene management, attendance and learning outcomes among girls in Ghana
Despite progress in girls’ school enrolment in many low-and-middle-income countries, gendered inequalities in educational outcomes persist, partly driven by school conditions. This study examines the relationships between school-based water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) facilities, school attendance, menstrual hygiene management (MHM), and learning outcomes among girls in Ghana. The study utilises cross-sectional data from 875 primary and junio…
Geography (12 works) · Economics (11 works) · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration (9 works) · Ecology (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Climate change (7 works) · Population (7 works) · Socioeconomics (6 works) · Human migration (5 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (5 works)