Yaw Boakye Agyeman

Biographic Data

ID4192370
NAMEYaw Boakye Agyeman
GIVEN NAMESYaw Boakye
FAMILY NAMEAgyeman
SIGNATUREAGYEMAN Y B
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Energy and Natural Resources
ORCID0000-0001-9657-7696
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS5
TOTAL CITATIONS9
WORKS AS AUTHOR5
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX1

  • Wastes in the wild

    Open AccessRicky Yao Nutsugbodo, David Anaafo et al.ARTICLECogent Social Sciences2024

    Available data show that the number of tourists visiting Ghana’s national parks has increased noticeably. Visitors usually carry with them plastic materials for their convenience and use, which are eventually disposed-of in the parks. Primarily, ensuring that national parks, which are ecologically sensitive natural environments are free of plastic waste is a major challenge for park managers. This research, therefore, sought to understand the dif…

  • Visitor perceptions of the roles of tour guides in Kakum National Park in Ghana

    Open AccessYaw Boakye Agyeman, Nana Boaa Antwi-BosiakoARTICLECogent Social Sciences2022

    National parks are global cornerstones supporting not only biodiversity conservation but also educational and recreational opportunities. Based on these opportunities, ecotourism has gained wide application in national parks as a sustainable form of tourism, providing visitors with recreational and educational opportunities to garner support for biodiversity conservation. Tour guides play vital roles to support these opportunities whiles ensuring…

  • Hunting behavior and wildlife value orientations of farmer-hunters

    Yaw Boakye Agyeman, Naomi Nsiah et al.ARTICLEHuman Dimensions of Wildlife2022

    Hunting is a prevalent threat to wildlife conservation. Understanding hunting behavior and attitudes toward wildlife are instrumental to effective wildlife conservation. The concept of wildlife value orientation (WVO) presents an opportunity to understand how people value and want wildlife to be managed. Little attention has been given to how demographics influence wildlife value orientations with the hunting context. This article assessed huntin…

  • Visitor satisfaction at Kakum National Park in Ghana

    Yaw Boakye Agyeman, Osei Kwame Aboagye et al.ARTICLETourism Recreation Research2019Cited by: 1References: 39

    Protected areas have a strong appeal to visitors seeking experience in natural settings. In satisfying visitors, managers need to understand their expectations and the experiences as a basis for providing a satisfactory experience for them. These experiences can be influenced by some aspects of protected areas such as the presence of charismatic species, and the attractiveness of the landscape, which constitutes the attributes that generally affe…

  • Protected areas and poverty reduction

    Yaw Boakye Agyeman, Augustine Oti Yeboah et al.ARTICLECommunity Development2019Cited by: 8References: 43

    Ecotourism has become a sustainable alternative to degrading livelihoods around protected areas in developing countries. Its contributions to poverty reduction are captured in terms of employment and income generation. As a result, studies assessing ecotourism’s contributions have traditionally focused on the accumulation and distribution of the economic benefits. However, little attention has been given to the non-economic aspects relevant to po…