Charlotte Wrigley-Asante
Biographic Data
| ID | 3799303 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charlotte Wrigley-Asante |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charlotte |
| FAMILY NAME | Wrigley-Asante |
| SIGNATURE | WRIGLEY-ASANTE C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ghana |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Public Health Risk, Consumer Behaviour, and Gendered Livelihoods
Bushmeat (wild meat) trade provides critical livelihoods in Ghana but is also implicated in zoonotic disease risk and conservation debates. Despite extensive scholarship on wildlife trade and COVID-19, limited research has examined how pandemic-driven health risk perceptions reshaped bushmeat consumption patterns and gendered trade dynamics. This paper addresses that gap. Drawing on the Health Belief Model (HBM), we extend its application beyond …
Urban Governance and the Challenges of Sustainable Wastewater Management
Although wastewater can be considered a significant resource for augmenting domestic, agricultural, and industrial water supplies, drawbacks in its management result in environmental pollution. Using a mixed-methods approach, this study focused on understanding the realization of urban governance in wastewater management in Tema, Ghana. The key findings indicate that wastewater management is conducted in a restrictive environment, dictated by a l…
Cultural convergence and Indigenous transitions
This paper investigates how the migration and cultural practices of Akan migrants are reshaping indigenous cultural norms among Ga families in Accra, Ghana with a focus on Ga Mashie and Nsakina. Drawing on 40 in-depth interviews and situated within the bi-dimensional model of acculturation theory, the paper explores structural and functional changes in Ga family life. Key findings show that, Ga natives are increasingly adopting Akan language and …
How do land tenure arrangements influence adaptive responses of farmers? A study of crop farmers from semi-arid Ghana
Public confidence in the police
This paper examines the effect of instrumental and expressive concerns on public confidence in the police in three different residential areas in Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana’s third largest city. The study was important because of the knowledge vacuum that existed in regard to the empirical validity of the instrumental and expressive theoretical framework within the Ghanaian context. Data for the study was drawn from a baseline survey conducted in th…
The emergence and institutionalization of feminist geography in Ghana
The emergence and institutionalization of feminist geography in Ghana was in tandem with the global feminist movement in the 1970s and its subsequent international women’s conferences. This paper discusses the pioneering work and research at the Department of Geography and Resource Development, University of Ghana, and its effect on the institutionalization and diffusion of feminist geography in Ghana. Through research and external collaborations…
Men and women in trades
This paper examines changes in home-based enterprises in Ga-Mashie, a coastal community in Accra, Ghana, in response to changes in government and economic policies. With the arrival of the Europeans and the creation of the Accra port in the community, there were modifications in home-based enterprises from predominantly fish processing and farming activities to food vending and trading, mainly in the sale of European goods. Under post-independenc…
Women in Ties
Crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) and built-environmental manifestations in Accra and Kumasi, Ghana
Urban health in Africa
Achieving development and eliminating poverty are dependent on improving the health of populations, which are increasingly urban based. In this short paper we highlight the importance of context for understanding urban health in Africa, drawing in particular on the case of Ghana, and sketch out the implications of this new context in relation to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The rise of non-communicable diseases in an African context,…
From Sunrise to Sunset
Survival or escaping poverty
Trading is one of the strategies that Ghanaian women have adopted to overcome poverty and improve their well-being. Using in-depth interviews, this study examines the specific commercial activities that are undertaken by women in cross-border trading, the coping strategies that they use to address the difficulties that confront them, the impact of women's trading activities on their lives, and how these are linked to their subjective understandin…
Unraveling the health-related challenges of women in the informal economy
Out of the dark but not out of the cage
In Ghana, strategies to address poverty among rural women have often been linked to women's empowerment programmes with credit as a core component of these. Yet, many programmes focus on the economic benefit to women without necessarily looking at the impact on gender relations at the household level and its implications on women. Using quantitative and qualitative data from the Dangme West district of Ghana, this article shows how poverty reduct…
Out of the dark but not out of the cage
In Ghana, strategies to address poverty among rural women have often been linked to women's empowerment programmes with credit as a core component of these. Yet, many programmes focus on the economic benefit to women without necessarily looking at the impact on gender relations at the household level and its implications on women. Using quantitative and qualitative data from the Dangme West district of Ghana, this article shows how poverty reduct…
Unraveling the health-related challenges of women in the informal economy
Men and women in trades
This paper examines changes in home-based enterprises in Ga-Mashie, a coastal community in Accra, Ghana, in response to changes in government and economic policies. With the arrival of the Europeans and the creation of the Accra port in the community, there were modifications in home-based enterprises from predominantly fish processing and farming activities to food vending and trading, mainly in the sale of European goods. Under post-independenc…
From Sunrise to Sunset
Survival or escaping poverty
Trading is one of the strategies that Ghanaian women have adopted to overcome poverty and improve their well-being. Using in-depth interviews, this study examines the specific commercial activities that are undertaken by women in cross-border trading, the coping strategies that they use to address the difficulties that confront them, the impact of women's trading activities on their lives, and how these are linked to their subjective understandin…
How do land tenure arrangements influence adaptive responses of farmers? A study of crop farmers from semi-arid Ghana
Crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) and built-environmental manifestations in Accra and Kumasi, Ghana
The emergence and institutionalization of feminist geography in Ghana
The emergence and institutionalization of feminist geography in Ghana was in tandem with the global feminist movement in the 1970s and its subsequent international women’s conferences. This paper discusses the pioneering work and research at the Department of Geography and Resource Development, University of Ghana, and its effect on the institutionalization and diffusion of feminist geography in Ghana. Through research and external collaborations…
Women in Ties
Out of the dark but not out of the cage
In Ghana, strategies to address poverty among rural women have often been linked to women's empowerment programmes with credit as a core component of these. Yet, many programmes focus on the economic benefit to women without necessarily looking at the impact on gender relations at the household level and its implications on women. Using quantitative and qualitative data from the Dangme West district of Ghana, this article shows how poverty reduct…
Unraveling the health-related challenges of women in the informal economy
Survival or escaping poverty
Trading is one of the strategies that Ghanaian women have adopted to overcome poverty and improve their well-being. Using in-depth interviews, this study examines the specific commercial activities that are undertaken by women in cross-border trading, the coping strategies that they use to address the difficulties that confront them, the impact of women's trading activities on their lives, and how these are linked to their subjective understandin…
Crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) and built-environmental manifestations in Accra and Kumasi, Ghana
Urban health in Africa
Achieving development and eliminating poverty are dependent on improving the health of populations, which are increasingly urban based. In this short paper we highlight the importance of context for understanding urban health in Africa, drawing in particular on the case of Ghana, and sketch out the implications of this new context in relation to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The rise of non-communicable diseases in an African context,…
From Sunrise to Sunset
Men and women in trades
This paper examines changes in home-based enterprises in Ga-Mashie, a coastal community in Accra, Ghana, in response to changes in government and economic policies. With the arrival of the Europeans and the creation of the Accra port in the community, there were modifications in home-based enterprises from predominantly fish processing and farming activities to food vending and trading, mainly in the sale of European goods. Under post-independenc…
Women in Ties
Public confidence in the police
This paper examines the effect of instrumental and expressive concerns on public confidence in the police in three different residential areas in Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana’s third largest city. The study was important because of the knowledge vacuum that existed in regard to the empirical validity of the instrumental and expressive theoretical framework within the Ghanaian context. Data for the study was drawn from a baseline survey conducted in th…
The emergence and institutionalization of feminist geography in Ghana
The emergence and institutionalization of feminist geography in Ghana was in tandem with the global feminist movement in the 1970s and its subsequent international women’s conferences. This paper discusses the pioneering work and research at the Department of Geography and Resource Development, University of Ghana, and its effect on the institutionalization and diffusion of feminist geography in Ghana. Through research and external collaborations…
How do land tenure arrangements influence adaptive responses of farmers? A study of crop farmers from semi-arid Ghana
Public Health Risk, Consumer Behaviour, and Gendered Livelihoods
Bushmeat (wild meat) trade provides critical livelihoods in Ghana but is also implicated in zoonotic disease risk and conservation debates. Despite extensive scholarship on wildlife trade and COVID-19, limited research has examined how pandemic-driven health risk perceptions reshaped bushmeat consumption patterns and gendered trade dynamics. This paper addresses that gap. Drawing on the Health Belief Model (HBM), we extend its application beyond …
Urban Governance and the Challenges of Sustainable Wastewater Management
Although wastewater can be considered a significant resource for augmenting domestic, agricultural, and industrial water supplies, drawbacks in its management result in environmental pollution. Using a mixed-methods approach, this study focused on understanding the realization of urban governance in wastewater management in Tema, Ghana. The key findings indicate that wastewater management is conducted in a restrictive environment, dictated by a l…
Cultural convergence and Indigenous transitions
This paper investigates how the migration and cultural practices of Akan migrants are reshaping indigenous cultural norms among Ga families in Accra, Ghana with a focus on Ga Mashie and Nsakina. Drawing on 40 in-depth interviews and situated within the bi-dimensional model of acculturation theory, the paper explores structural and functional changes in Ga family life. Key findings show that, Ga natives are increasingly adopting Akan language and …
Business (8 works) · Economics (8 works) · Economic growth (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Geography (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (4 works) · Poverty (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Work (physics (4 works)