Christopher Gordon
Biographic Data
| ID | 3655811 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher Gordon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher |
| FAMILY NAME | Gordon |
| SIGNATURE | GORDON C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ghana |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2734-851X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 184 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 35 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Nature of climate change-induced risks in semi-arid northwestern Ghana
Climate variability and impact have been an endemic challenge to smallholder farmers who largely depend on rainy weather for livelihoods in semi-arid north-western Ghana. Many households in semi-arid regions exhibit low levels of adaptive capacity due to ineffective adaptation strategies and poor coping strategies. This study examined (1) trends in gauged rainfall and temperature data spanning the period from 1984 to 2014 and (2) smallholder farm…
Assessing risks of methylmercury contamination in the Ankobra estuary, Western Region, Ghana
Heavy metal contamination in coastal waters is a global concern, with mercury being among the most persistent pollutants. Methylmercury (MeHg), the most toxic form of mercury, poses serious neurological, cardiovascular, and other health risks to humans. This study assessed MeHg levels in the lower Ankobra River and estuary and evaluated the ecological and health risks (Er and THQ) for the Sanwoma community in the Western Region of Ghana. Sediment…
Heat Adaptation Benefits for Vulnerable groups In Africa (Habvia)
Pan African Clinical Trials Registry (PACTR) PACTR202401521630856, version 1. Retrospectively registered on January 12, 2024
Revisiting the sustainability science research agenda
Identifying research gaps and priorities is paramount to advance sustainability science and contribute to a sustainable future. This editorial contributes to this effort by contemplating the sustainability science research agenda and aligning it with recent changes in global dynamics. Drawing on consultations with the editorial board members of the Sustainability Science journal and a review of relevant literature, we identified 12 key research t…
Safe and just Earth system boundaries
The stability and resilience of the Earth system and human well-being are inseparably linked 1–3 , yet their interdependencies are generally under-recognized; consequently, they are often treated independently 4,5 . Here, we use modelling and literature assessment to quantify safe and just Earth system boundaries (ESBs) for climate, the biosphere, water and nutrient cycles, and aerosols at global and subglobal scales. We propose ESBs for maintain…
Earth system justice needed to identify and live within Earth system boundaries
Living within the safe and just Earth system boundaries for blue water
Safe and just Earth system boundaries (ESBs) for surface water and groundwater (blue water) have been defined for sustainable water management in the Anthropocene. Here we assessed whether minimum human needs could be met with surface water from within individual river basins alone and, where this is not possible, quantified how much groundwater would be required. Approximately 2.6 billion people live in river basins where groundwater is needed b…
We must invest in behavioural economics for the HIV response
Achieving a nature- and people-positive future
Despite decades of increasing investment in conservation, we have not succeeded in ''bending the curve'' of biodiversity decline. Efforts to meet new targets and goals for the next three decades risk repeating this outcome due to three factors: neglect of increasing drivers of decline; unrealistic expectations and time frames of biodiversity recovery; and insufficient attention to justice within and between generations and across countries. Our E…
Impacts of meeting minimum access on critical earth systems amidst the Great Inequality
The Sustainable Development Goals aim to improve access to resources and services, reduce environmental degradation, eradicate poverty and reduce inequality. However, the magnitude of the environmental burden that would arise from meeting the needs of the poorest is under debate—especially when compared to much larger burdens from the rich. We show that the ‘Great Acceleration’ of human impacts was characterized by a ‘Great Inequality’ in using a…
Identifying a Safe and Just Corridor for People and the Planet
Keeping the Earth system in a stable and resilient state, to safeguard Earth's life support systems while ensuring that Earth's benefits, risks, and related responsibilities are equitably shared, constitutes the grand challenge for human development in the Anthropocene. Here, we describe a framework that the recently formed Earth Commission will use to define and quantify target ranges for a “safe and just corridor” that meets these goals. Althou…
Differential household vulnerability to climatic and non-climatic stressors in semi-arid areas of Mali, West Africa
Semi-Arid Regions (SARs) of West Africa are considered climate change “hotspots” where strong ecological, economic and social impacts converge to make socio-ecological systems particularly vulnerable. While both climatic and non-climatic drivers interact across scales to influence vulnerability, traditionally, this inter-connectedness has received little attention in vulnerability assessments in the region. This study adopted the vulnerability pa…
Reconciling safe planetary targets and planetary justice
As human activity threatens to make the planet unsafe for humanity and other life forms, scholars are identifying planetary targets set at a safe distance from biophysical thresholds beyond which critical Earth systems may collapse. Yet despite the profound implications that both meeting and transgressing such targets may have for human wellbeing, including the potential for negative trade-offs, there is limited social science analysis that syste…
Social Prescribing for Individuals Living with Mental Illness in an Australian Community Setting
Social prescribing, also known as "community referral", is a means of referring individuals living in the community to existing local non-clinical health, welfare, and social support services. International evidence demonstrates that social prescribing improves biopsychosocial quality of life, and burden on health services. Australia's first social prescribing pilot program for individuals with mental illness (mood and psychotic spectrum disorder…
The Earth System Governance Project as a network organization
The social sciences have engaged since the late 1980s in international collaborative programmes to study questions of sustainability and global change. This article offers an in-depth analysis of the largest long-standing social-science network in this field: the Earth System Governance Project. Originating as a core project of the former International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change, the Earth System Governance Project …
New directions in earth system governance research
The Earth System Governance project is a global research alliance that explores novel, effective governance mechanisms to cope with the current transitions in the biogeochemical systems of the planet. A decade after its inception, this article offers an overview of the project's new research framework (which is built upon a review of existing earth system governance research), the goal of which is to continue to stimulate a pluralistic, vibrant a…
Evaluation of a computer-based and counseling support intervention to improve HIV patients’ viral loads
We sought to integrate a brief computer and counseling support intervention into the routine practices of HIV clinics and evaluate effects on patients' viral loads. The project targeted HIV patients in care whose viral loads exceeded 1000 copies/ml at the time of recruitment. Three HIV clinics initiated the intervention immediately, and three other HIV clinics delayed onset for 16 months and served as concurrent controls for evaluating outcomes. …
Commentary on ‘A renewed focus on water security within the 2030 agenda for sustainable development’
Eco-history
"Eco-history: an introduction to biodiversity and conservation." Landscape Research, 41(5), pp. 586–587
Earth System Governance in Africa
The coalition government 2010–2015
When the Coalition Government was formally announced on 11 May 2010, the Liberal Democrats declined to assign any of their agreed minority proportion of ministerial posts to the Department of Cultu
Protected area management and livelihood conflicts in Ghana
The Digya National Park in Ghana has been the scene of conflicts between local communities and wildlife managers ever since its establishment in 1971. The conflicts range from apprehension of local people by Wildlife Officials for entry into the park to collect non-timber forest products, to serious confrontation with poachers, arrests and evictions that occasionally result in deaths. Documented information on these conflicts, however, is scanty.…
Becoming Europeans
Anthony Storr, The dynamics of creation
by Anthony Storr, London, Secker & Warburg, 1972, 248 pp., hardback, ISBN 436‐48755‐1; London, Pelican, 1976, 304 pp., paperback, ISBN 0140156860 The creative impulse is one of the most complex and
Great expectations – the European Union and cultural policy
The European Union secured limited legal ‘competence’ to act in culture in 1992. This article examines the operational context and its complicated and countervailing tensions that make European cultural policy formulation and implementation difficult. Underlying problems originate in the failure properly to define what is meant by ‘culture’ in different contexts or to identify clear and pragmatic policy objectives, although legitimate ‘instrument…
New directions in earth system governance research
The Earth System Governance project is a global research alliance that explores novel, effective governance mechanisms to cope with the current transitions in the biogeochemical systems of the planet. A decade after its inception, this article offers an overview of the project's new research framework (which is built upon a review of existing earth system governance research), the goal of which is to continue to stimulate a pluralistic, vibrant a…
Cultural Heritage Between Centralisation and Decentralisation
Management of Italy's heritage has been in increasing turmoil since 1993. This paper identifies and reviews significant reform attempts, including outsourcing, devolution, managerialism and privatisation. The authors propose a framework for improved understanding of the various solutions examined – distinguishing between professional and organisational centralisation. It is argued that while decentralised organisational management can have positi…
The effect of a top predator on kangaroo abundance in arid Australia and its implications for archaeological faunal assemblages
Great expectations – the European Union and cultural policy
The European Union secured limited legal ‘competence’ to act in culture in 1992. This article examines the operational context and its complicated and countervailing tensions that make European cultural policy formulation and implementation difficult. Underlying problems originate in the failure properly to define what is meant by ‘culture’ in different contexts or to identify clear and pragmatic policy objectives, although legitimate ‘instrument…
Impacts of meeting minimum access on critical earth systems amidst the Great Inequality
The Sustainable Development Goals aim to improve access to resources and services, reduce environmental degradation, eradicate poverty and reduce inequality. However, the magnitude of the environmental burden that would arise from meeting the needs of the poorest is under debate—especially when compared to much larger burdens from the rich. We show that the ‘Great Acceleration’ of human impacts was characterized by a ‘Great Inequality’ in using a…
Earth system justice needed to identify and live within Earth system boundaries
Revisiting the sustainability science research agenda
Identifying research gaps and priorities is paramount to advance sustainability science and contribute to a sustainable future. This editorial contributes to this effort by contemplating the sustainability science research agenda and aligning it with recent changes in global dynamics. Drawing on consultations with the editorial board members of the Sustainability Science journal and a review of relevant literature, we identified 12 key research t…
Social Prescribing for Individuals Living with Mental Illness in an Australian Community Setting
Social prescribing, also known as "community referral", is a means of referring individuals living in the community to existing local non-clinical health, welfare, and social support services. International evidence demonstrates that social prescribing improves biopsychosocial quality of life, and burden on health services. Australia's first social prescribing pilot program for individuals with mental illness (mood and psychotic spectrum disorder…
Developing deep learning approaches and personal teaching efficacy within a preservice teacher education context
Background: University students' approaches to learning have been demonstrated to affect learning outcomes across a wide range of courses, favouring the use of a deep approach. Interventions to promote the use of deep approaches have had mixed success, with the most successful interventions involving large-scale course redesign.Aims: This paper describes a study in which contextual modifications were implemented in an existing preservice teacher …
Reconciling safe planetary targets and planetary justice
As human activity threatens to make the planet unsafe for humanity and other life forms, scholars are identifying planetary targets set at a safe distance from biophysical thresholds beyond which critical Earth systems may collapse. Yet despite the profound implications that both meeting and transgressing such targets may have for human wellbeing, including the potential for negative trade-offs, there is limited social science analysis that syste…
The Earth System Governance Project as a network organization
The social sciences have engaged since the late 1980s in international collaborative programmes to study questions of sustainability and global change. This article offers an in-depth analysis of the largest long-standing social-science network in this field: the Earth System Governance Project. Originating as a core project of the former International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change, the Earth System Governance Project …
Earth System Governance in Africa
The coalition government 2010–2015
When the Coalition Government was formally announced on 11 May 2010, the Liberal Democrats declined to assign any of their agreed minority proportion of ministerial posts to the Department of Cultu
Living within the safe and just Earth system boundaries for blue water
Safe and just Earth system boundaries (ESBs) for surface water and groundwater (blue water) have been defined for sustainable water management in the Anthropocene. Here we assessed whether minimum human needs could be met with surface water from within individual river basins alone and, where this is not possible, quantified how much groundwater would be required. Approximately 2.6 billion people live in river basins where groundwater is needed b…
Familial Support for the Elderly in the Past
This paper takes as its starting point the historical debate about the respective roles of family and state in providing, where necessary, for the elderly population. Using the original data cards from the New Survey of London it is possible to consider this in the light of the experience of the working class in London in the early 1930s by analysing data on household composition and income. This is the first time that data on household compositi…
Familial Support for the Elderly in the Past
This paper takes as its starting point the historical debate about the respective roles of family and state in providing, where necessary, for the elderly population. Using the original data cards from the New Survey of London it is possible to consider this in the light of the experience of the working class in London in the early 1930s by analysing data on household composition and income. This is the first time that data on household compositi…
The Process of Recovering from Anorexia Nervosa
The authors describe the process of recovering from anorexia nervosa as it is revealed by 13 women who have recovered from the illness. Emphasizing the patient's perspective, the paper reviews the perceived causes of the disorder, helpful and harmful therapy-related and life experiences, features hardest to change, the defensive function of anorexia nervosa and residual traits. Generally, the movement toward health entails forming a therapeutic r…
The Parents’ Relationship and the Child's Illness in Anorexia Nervosa
The authors examine the impact on the preanorexic child of the parents' relationship with one another, particularly the models they present of mature male/female relationships. The authors suggest that patterns of maternal perfectionism and self-sacrifice combined with paternal entitlement makes sexual maturity particularly threatening for female children in these families, and may partially explain the greater incidence of anorexia nervosa in wo…
Effects of novel odors on intermale attack behavior in mice
Offensive, defensive, and nonagonistic social behaviors of resident male mice toward unfamiliar intruders were examined during exposure to the novel odors of chocolate or sheep's wool. Both novel odors reduced lateral attacks and boxing when compared to familiar sawdust odor. Chocolate, but not sheep's wool, also reliably increased flight behavior by residents. Neither social behaviors nor self-grooming were affected by these odors. The novel odo…
Developing deep learning approaches and personal teaching efficacy within a preservice teacher education context
Background: University students' approaches to learning have been demonstrated to affect learning outcomes across a wide range of courses, favouring the use of a deep approach. Interventions to promote the use of deep approaches have had mixed success, with the most successful interventions involving large-scale course redesign.Aims: This paper describes a study in which contextual modifications were implemented in an existing preservice teacher …
Culture and the European Union in a Global Context
The EU, having been established as a "single market," has long been used to dealing with trade in cultural commodities. However, it only acquired rather limited legal competence to intervene in cultural policy in 1993. The principle of subsidiarity enshrined in the legislation gives protection to the national culture policies of the member states while specifically excluding harmonization. EU action is therefore restricted to minor grant schemes …
Cultural Heritage Between Centralisation and Decentralisation
Management of Italy's heritage has been in increasing turmoil since 1993. This paper identifies and reviews significant reform attempts, including outsourcing, devolution, managerialism and privatisation. The authors propose a framework for improved understanding of the various solutions examined – distinguishing between professional and organisational centralisation. It is argued that while decentralised organisational management can have positi…
Towards an integrated understanding of green space in the European built environment
Augustin Girard (1926–2009)
Augustin Girard (1926–2009): a personal tribute." International Journal of Cultural Policy, 15(3), pp. 363–364
The effect of a top predator on kangaroo abundance in arid Australia and its implications for archaeological faunal assemblages
Anthony Storr, The dynamics of creation
by Anthony Storr, London, Secker & Warburg, 1972, 248 pp., hardback, ISBN 436‐48755‐1; London, Pelican, 1976, 304 pp., paperback, ISBN 0140156860 The creative impulse is one of the most complex and
Great expectations – the European Union and cultural policy
The European Union secured limited legal ‘competence’ to act in culture in 1992. This article examines the operational context and its complicated and countervailing tensions that make European cultural policy formulation and implementation difficult. Underlying problems originate in the failure properly to define what is meant by ‘culture’ in different contexts or to identify clear and pragmatic policy objectives, although legitimate ‘instrument…
Becoming Europeans
Protected area management and livelihood conflicts in Ghana
The Digya National Park in Ghana has been the scene of conflicts between local communities and wildlife managers ever since its establishment in 1971. The conflicts range from apprehension of local people by Wildlife Officials for entry into the park to collect non-timber forest products, to serious confrontation with poachers, arrests and evictions that occasionally result in deaths. Documented information on these conflicts, however, is scanty.…
Earth System Governance in Africa
The coalition government 2010–2015
When the Coalition Government was formally announced on 11 May 2010, the Liberal Democrats declined to assign any of their agreed minority proportion of ministerial posts to the Department of Cultu
Eco-history
"Eco-history: an introduction to biodiversity and conservation." Landscape Research, 41(5), pp. 586–587
Commentary on ‘A renewed focus on water security within the 2030 agenda for sustainable development’
Evaluation of a computer-based and counseling support intervention to improve HIV patients’ viral loads
We sought to integrate a brief computer and counseling support intervention into the routine practices of HIV clinics and evaluate effects on patients' viral loads. The project targeted HIV patients in care whose viral loads exceeded 1000 copies/ml at the time of recruitment. Three HIV clinics initiated the intervention immediately, and three other HIV clinics delayed onset for 16 months and served as concurrent controls for evaluating outcomes. …
The Earth System Governance Project as a network organization
The social sciences have engaged since the late 1980s in international collaborative programmes to study questions of sustainability and global change. This article offers an in-depth analysis of the largest long-standing social-science network in this field: the Earth System Governance Project. Originating as a core project of the former International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change, the Earth System Governance Project …
New directions in earth system governance research
The Earth System Governance project is a global research alliance that explores novel, effective governance mechanisms to cope with the current transitions in the biogeochemical systems of the planet. A decade after its inception, this article offers an overview of the project's new research framework (which is built upon a review of existing earth system governance research), the goal of which is to continue to stimulate a pluralistic, vibrant a…
Social Prescribing for Individuals Living with Mental Illness in an Australian Community Setting
Social prescribing, also known as "community referral", is a means of referring individuals living in the community to existing local non-clinical health, welfare, and social support services. International evidence demonstrates that social prescribing improves biopsychosocial quality of life, and burden on health services. Australia's first social prescribing pilot program for individuals with mental illness (mood and psychotic spectrum disorder…
Identifying a Safe and Just Corridor for People and the Planet
Keeping the Earth system in a stable and resilient state, to safeguard Earth's life support systems while ensuring that Earth's benefits, risks, and related responsibilities are equitably shared, constitutes the grand challenge for human development in the Anthropocene. Here, we describe a framework that the recently formed Earth Commission will use to define and quantify target ranges for a “safe and just corridor” that meets these goals. Althou…
Differential household vulnerability to climatic and non-climatic stressors in semi-arid areas of Mali, West Africa
Semi-Arid Regions (SARs) of West Africa are considered climate change “hotspots” where strong ecological, economic and social impacts converge to make socio-ecological systems particularly vulnerable. While both climatic and non-climatic drivers interact across scales to influence vulnerability, traditionally, this inter-connectedness has received little attention in vulnerability assessments in the region. This study adopted the vulnerability pa…
Reconciling safe planetary targets and planetary justice
As human activity threatens to make the planet unsafe for humanity and other life forms, scholars are identifying planetary targets set at a safe distance from biophysical thresholds beyond which critical Earth systems may collapse. Yet despite the profound implications that both meeting and transgressing such targets may have for human wellbeing, including the potential for negative trade-offs, there is limited social science analysis that syste…
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