Matthew Abunyewah
Biographic Data
| ID | 270245 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew Abunyewah |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew |
| FAMILY NAME | Abunyewah |
| SIGNATURE | ABUNYEWAH M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Charles Darwin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6649-6489 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 30 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Smart Technology Adoption
Unsafe e‐waste handling practices pose serious risks to worker safety, environmental sustainability and the recovery of valuable materials in developing economies. Although smart technologies offer significant potential to improve e‐waste management, their adoption remains limited in the e‐waste sector businesses and underexplored in the e‐waste urban mining literature. Addressing this gap, this study examines the behavioural determinants of smar…
Digital Transformation on Green Operational Performance
Digital transformation (DT) is increasingly recognised as essential for improving environmental performance in process‐intensive and hazardous sectors; however, the mechanisms by which digitalisation translates into green operational performance (GOP) and environmental accountability remain insufficiently investigated, particularly in developing‐economy e‐waste contexts. Drawing on the Resource‐Based View (RBV) theory, this study examines how dig…
Pathways of household adaptiveness to climate risk
Communities in semi-arid regions, including farmers and livestock holders, are more likely to suffer from environmental stresses due to climate change volatility. Therefore, understanding the diverse pathways to community resilience and adaptability is imperative. This study explores the pathways of household adaptiveness to climate risks on Sumba Island, a semi-arid region in Eastern Indonesia characterised by smallholder livestock farming and f…
Urban transition and environmental risks in overlooked small and medium-sized towns
In many global south cities, the gradual declines in growth rates in large urban centers and capital cities are being countered by the rapid growth and expansion of small and medium-sized towns. Yet, urban sustainability research is heavily centered on the so-called megacities of the global south, overlooking the emergence of small and medium-sized towns at the confluence of urban transition and sustainability dynamics. Drawing on the case of Som…
Walking cities that are (un)walkable
Children and adults’ perception of risk and risk management
Using participatory and qualitative methodologies, such as participatory risk assessment, mind mapping, risk ranking matrix, risk prioritisation and personal interviews, this research explored two domains of change: risk and risk management perceptions among three key stakeholders: children, their caring adults, and local public officials in a village in Central Java, Indonesia. The study focused on how these groups perceive and prioritise climat…
The multidimensional impacts of heatwaves on human ecosystems
Global warming continues to exacerbate heatwave severity, duration, and frequency causing impacts that threaten humanity, and the physical and anthropogenic environment. Although research on heatwave impacts has increased, the majority of studies have focused on social effects relegating to the background other crucial impacts. Such a narrow focus on social impacts limits the realization of a thorough understanding of the net impacts of heatwaves…
Secondary cities at the residential housing frontier
Understanding circular economy transition tensions
Advancing conceptual understanding of technology adoption decisions in E-waste urban mining sector
Citizen's preferences for urban planning priorities
Assessing differential socio-demographic impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on urban livelihood capitals in suburban Accra, Ghana
Circular economy and agricultural employment
Using data from 24 European advanced and emerging countries between 2000 and 2020, this paper examines the impacts of circular economy (CE) on agriculture employment (AE) and female employment patterns. Based on the availability of data, the study uses three CE indicators: generation of municipal waste (GMW) per capita, the recycling rate of municipal waste (RRMW), and patents related to recycling and secondary raw materials (PRSRM). To investiga…
Faith-based organisations and disaster management in informal urban Accra
Disaster risks in African cities are compounding due to the triple convergence of climate change impacts, unplanned urbanisation, and entrenched socio-spatial inequities. Disaster events are, therefore, common with disproportionate impacts on informal residents yet resting within reactive and extremely limited disaster management regime that leaves behind many voids in disaster risk reduction. Drawing on a qualitative approach and situated in a d…
Social capital and community-driven development
In sub-Saharan African cities, community-driven development has emerged as a collective response to entrenched socio-spatial inequalities and inappropriate local development planning responses to the challenges of informal settlements. Social capital is considered to stimulate such community-driven initiatives. There are also claims that social capital can impede the sustainable development of informal settlements. Yet, none of these streams pay …
Policy-reality gaps in Africa’s walking cities
This paper confronts the current policy landscape and lived experiences of walking in African cities through the lens of policies, plans, institutional, and residents’ narratives. The paper builds on qualitative evidence drawn from content analysis and semi-structured interviews with local-level stakeholders across policy sectors concerned directly or indirectly with walking and walkability in the city. Perspectives from local government institut…
Community resilience across Australia towards natural hazards
Natural hazards can turn into disasters when not managed well. An important part of disaster risk reduction is to understand how well communities are prepared for natural hazards and how well they can cope with and recover from shocks in the long term. This research assesses self-reported community resilience and asks what makes a community resilient, using Australia as a case study. It reports on an Australian-wide online survey which included q…
Influence of personal and collective social capital on flood preparedness and community resilience
Social capital constitutes an important resource in vulnerable cities of the developing world where formal disaster management capacities are weak, responses are limited, and socio-economic deprivations run deep along spatial dimensions. Yet, little is known about how the different types of social capital contribute to flood preparedness and better community resilience, particularly in informal settlement settings. Drawing on a survey of 391 resp…
Developing Psychological Resilience to the Impact of Drought
This feasibility study will employ a mixed-method design sub-divided into three phases. Phase 1 will utilise social network analysis (SNA) to identify leadership patterns and their intersections across communities. While phase 2 will use semi-structured interviews to ascertain the perceived roles of identified leaders in preparing for and recovering from drought impacts, the third phase will adopt the Delphi method to unpack existing perceptions …
A digital turn for urban management? Residents' perception and utilisation of the digital property address system in Accra, Ghana
Rapid urbanisation and its associated challenges in Global South countries have necessitated the use of digital technologies in urban management. Key to their successful utilisation for urban management is residents' perceptions and utilisation of these technologies. Yet, little attention has been given to this area of research. Using data gathered from a cross-sectional survey in three suburban communities, the study examined residents' percepti…
The moderating role of Covid-19-related support on urban livelihood capitals
In the Global South, the COVID-19 crisis has compelled varied efforts to quickly address the pandemic's impact on urban livelihoods. Families, friends as well as public, private, and civil society organizations have mobilized various resources to avert the pandemic's onslaught on the survival of the urban vulnerable. Indeed, there is a burgeoning ‘pandemic urban scholarship’ that shed insights on COVID-19 risks, local responses, and impacts on ev…
Advancing a slum–circular economy model for sustainability transition in cities of the Global South
Understanding climate change adaptation in Ghana
This study examines the effect of climate change knowledge, anxiety, and experience on climate adaptation using survey data from 874 farmers in the Western North Region of Ghana. To present unbiased estimates, the instrumental variable regression technique was applied to control for endogeneity. Results indicated that climate change anxiety and knowledge significantly increase climate change adaptation among farmers. Also, climate change experien…
Amplifying circular technological innovation for low greenhouse emissions
This paper aims to examine the causal effect of circular technological innovation on greenhouse gas emissions. In the study, panel data are collected from 30 advanced and emerging economies spanning more than two decades, and a recently innovated instrumental variable approach with a common factor error structure is used to analyze dynamic panel data. The results provide robust findings during sensitivity tests. We find that technological innovat…
Sub-Saharan Africa's Tragedy
This study utilized instrumental variable techniques and the Driscoll-Kraay estimator to examine the effect of democracy and natural resources on income inequality using a comprehensive panel dataset from 43 sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The findings from our empirical analysis indicated that natural resources and democracy indices such as electoral, liberal, participatory, deliberative, and egalitarian drive income inequality in SSA. Regional compar…
Sub-Saharan Africa's Tragedy
This study utilized instrumental variable techniques and the Driscoll-Kraay estimator to examine the effect of democracy and natural resources on income inequality using a comprehensive panel dataset from 43 sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The findings from our empirical analysis indicated that natural resources and democracy indices such as electoral, liberal, participatory, deliberative, and egalitarian drive income inequality in SSA. Regional compar…
Actor‐network analysis of community‐based organisations in health pandemics
Freetown, Sierra Leone, is confronted with health risks that are compounded by rapid unplanned urbanisation and weak capacities of local government institutions. Addressing them implies a shared responsibility between government and non‐state actors. In low‐income areas, the role of community‐based organisations (CBOs) in combating health disasters is well‐recognised. Yet, empirical evidence on how they have utilised their networks and coordinate…
Social capital and community-driven development
In sub-Saharan African cities, community-driven development has emerged as a collective response to entrenched socio-spatial inequalities and inappropriate local development planning responses to the challenges of informal settlements. Social capital is considered to stimulate such community-driven initiatives. There are also claims that social capital can impede the sustainable development of informal settlements. Yet, none of these streams pay …
Policy-reality gaps in Africa’s walking cities
This paper confronts the current policy landscape and lived experiences of walking in African cities through the lens of policies, plans, institutional, and residents’ narratives. The paper builds on qualitative evidence drawn from content analysis and semi-structured interviews with local-level stakeholders across policy sectors concerned directly or indirectly with walking and walkability in the city. Perspectives from local government institut…
Community resilience across Australia towards natural hazards
Natural hazards can turn into disasters when not managed well. An important part of disaster risk reduction is to understand how well communities are prepared for natural hazards and how well they can cope with and recover from shocks in the long term. This research assesses self-reported community resilience and asks what makes a community resilient, using Australia as a case study. It reports on an Australian-wide online survey which included q…
Citizen participation dilemmas in water governance
A digital turn for urban management? Residents' perception and utilisation of the digital property address system in Accra, Ghana
Rapid urbanisation and its associated challenges in Global South countries have necessitated the use of digital technologies in urban management. Key to their successful utilisation for urban management is residents' perceptions and utilisation of these technologies. Yet, little attention has been given to this area of research. Using data gathered from a cross-sectional survey in three suburban communities, the study examined residents' percepti…
The moderating role of Covid-19-related support on urban livelihood capitals
In the Global South, the COVID-19 crisis has compelled varied efforts to quickly address the pandemic's impact on urban livelihoods. Families, friends as well as public, private, and civil society organizations have mobilized various resources to avert the pandemic's onslaught on the survival of the urban vulnerable. Indeed, there is a burgeoning ‘pandemic urban scholarship’ that shed insights on COVID-19 risks, local responses, and impacts on ev…
The multidimensional impacts of heatwaves on human ecosystems
Global warming continues to exacerbate heatwave severity, duration, and frequency causing impacts that threaten humanity, and the physical and anthropogenic environment. Although research on heatwave impacts has increased, the majority of studies have focused on social effects relegating to the background other crucial impacts. Such a narrow focus on social impacts limits the realization of a thorough understanding of the net impacts of heatwaves…
Advancing conceptual understanding of technology adoption decisions in E-waste urban mining sector
Faith-based organisations and disaster management in informal urban Accra
Disaster risks in African cities are compounding due to the triple convergence of climate change impacts, unplanned urbanisation, and entrenched socio-spatial inequities. Disaster events are, therefore, common with disproportionate impacts on informal residents yet resting within reactive and extremely limited disaster management regime that leaves behind many voids in disaster risk reduction. Drawing on a qualitative approach and situated in a d…
Advancing a slum–circular economy model for sustainability transition in cities of the Global South
Strengthening the information deficit model for disaster preparedness
Citizen participation dilemmas in water governance
Actor‐network analysis of community‐based organisations in health pandemics
Freetown, Sierra Leone, is confronted with health risks that are compounded by rapid unplanned urbanisation and weak capacities of local government institutions. Addressing them implies a shared responsibility between government and non‐state actors. In low‐income areas, the role of community‐based organisations (CBOs) in combating health disasters is well‐recognised. Yet, empirical evidence on how they have utilised their networks and coordinate…
Rural water project planning and evaluation in Ghana
Community water projects offer an economically attractive and physically accessible solution for livelihoods. Piase Community Water Project (PCWP) was initiated in 2005 to provide potable water to the rural communities surrounding Piase. Using data from a field survey with sampled participants in the Bosomtwe district, where this rural water project was implemented, the paper analyses challenges encountered during the project's progress. An advan…
‘Everybody is Taking Their Security in Their Own Hands’
Influence of personal and collective social capital on flood preparedness and community resilience
Social capital constitutes an important resource in vulnerable cities of the developing world where formal disaster management capacities are weak, responses are limited, and socio-economic deprivations run deep along spatial dimensions. Yet, little is known about how the different types of social capital contribute to flood preparedness and better community resilience, particularly in informal settlement settings. Drawing on a survey of 391 resp…
Developing Psychological Resilience to the Impact of Drought
This feasibility study will employ a mixed-method design sub-divided into three phases. Phase 1 will utilise social network analysis (SNA) to identify leadership patterns and their intersections across communities. While phase 2 will use semi-structured interviews to ascertain the perceived roles of identified leaders in preparing for and recovering from drought impacts, the third phase will adopt the Delphi method to unpack existing perceptions …
A digital turn for urban management? Residents' perception and utilisation of the digital property address system in Accra, Ghana
Rapid urbanisation and its associated challenges in Global South countries have necessitated the use of digital technologies in urban management. Key to their successful utilisation for urban management is residents' perceptions and utilisation of these technologies. Yet, little attention has been given to this area of research. Using data gathered from a cross-sectional survey in three suburban communities, the study examined residents' percepti…
The moderating role of Covid-19-related support on urban livelihood capitals
In the Global South, the COVID-19 crisis has compelled varied efforts to quickly address the pandemic's impact on urban livelihoods. Families, friends as well as public, private, and civil society organizations have mobilized various resources to avert the pandemic's onslaught on the survival of the urban vulnerable. Indeed, there is a burgeoning ‘pandemic urban scholarship’ that shed insights on COVID-19 risks, local responses, and impacts on ev…
Advancing a slum–circular economy model for sustainability transition in cities of the Global South
Understanding climate change adaptation in Ghana
This study examines the effect of climate change knowledge, anxiety, and experience on climate adaptation using survey data from 874 farmers in the Western North Region of Ghana. To present unbiased estimates, the instrumental variable regression technique was applied to control for endogeneity. Results indicated that climate change anxiety and knowledge significantly increase climate change adaptation among farmers. Also, climate change experien…
Amplifying circular technological innovation for low greenhouse emissions
This paper aims to examine the causal effect of circular technological innovation on greenhouse gas emissions. In the study, panel data are collected from 30 advanced and emerging economies spanning more than two decades, and a recently innovated instrumental variable approach with a common factor error structure is used to analyze dynamic panel data. The results provide robust findings during sensitivity tests. We find that technological innovat…
Sub-Saharan Africa's Tragedy
This study utilized instrumental variable techniques and the Driscoll-Kraay estimator to examine the effect of democracy and natural resources on income inequality using a comprehensive panel dataset from 43 sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The findings from our empirical analysis indicated that natural resources and democracy indices such as electoral, liberal, participatory, deliberative, and egalitarian drive income inequality in SSA. Regional compar…
Assessing differential socio-demographic impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on urban livelihood capitals in suburban Accra, Ghana
Circular economy and agricultural employment
Using data from 24 European advanced and emerging countries between 2000 and 2020, this paper examines the impacts of circular economy (CE) on agriculture employment (AE) and female employment patterns. Based on the availability of data, the study uses three CE indicators: generation of municipal waste (GMW) per capita, the recycling rate of municipal waste (RRMW), and patents related to recycling and secondary raw materials (PRSRM). To investiga…
Faith-based organisations and disaster management in informal urban Accra
Disaster risks in African cities are compounding due to the triple convergence of climate change impacts, unplanned urbanisation, and entrenched socio-spatial inequities. Disaster events are, therefore, common with disproportionate impacts on informal residents yet resting within reactive and extremely limited disaster management regime that leaves behind many voids in disaster risk reduction. Drawing on a qualitative approach and situated in a d…
Social capital and community-driven development
In sub-Saharan African cities, community-driven development has emerged as a collective response to entrenched socio-spatial inequalities and inappropriate local development planning responses to the challenges of informal settlements. Social capital is considered to stimulate such community-driven initiatives. There are also claims that social capital can impede the sustainable development of informal settlements. Yet, none of these streams pay …
Policy-reality gaps in Africa’s walking cities
This paper confronts the current policy landscape and lived experiences of walking in African cities through the lens of policies, plans, institutional, and residents’ narratives. The paper builds on qualitative evidence drawn from content analysis and semi-structured interviews with local-level stakeholders across policy sectors concerned directly or indirectly with walking and walkability in the city. Perspectives from local government institut…
Community resilience across Australia towards natural hazards
Natural hazards can turn into disasters when not managed well. An important part of disaster risk reduction is to understand how well communities are prepared for natural hazards and how well they can cope with and recover from shocks in the long term. This research assesses self-reported community resilience and asks what makes a community resilient, using Australia as a case study. It reports on an Australian-wide online survey which included q…
Children and adults’ perception of risk and risk management
Using participatory and qualitative methodologies, such as participatory risk assessment, mind mapping, risk ranking matrix, risk prioritisation and personal interviews, this research explored two domains of change: risk and risk management perceptions among three key stakeholders: children, their caring adults, and local public officials in a village in Central Java, Indonesia. The study focused on how these groups perceive and prioritise climat…
The multidimensional impacts of heatwaves on human ecosystems
Global warming continues to exacerbate heatwave severity, duration, and frequency causing impacts that threaten humanity, and the physical and anthropogenic environment. Although research on heatwave impacts has increased, the majority of studies have focused on social effects relegating to the background other crucial impacts. Such a narrow focus on social impacts limits the realization of a thorough understanding of the net impacts of heatwaves…
Secondary cities at the residential housing frontier
Understanding circular economy transition tensions
Advancing conceptual understanding of technology adoption decisions in E-waste urban mining sector
Citizen's preferences for urban planning priorities
Geography (21 works) · Economics (17 works) · Business (16 works) · Political science (15 works) · Economic growth (12 works) · Environmental planning (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Urban and Rural Development Challenges (9 works) · Ecology (8 works) · Psychology (8 works)