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Dr Gideon Baffoe

Lecturer (Assistant Professor), Environment and Development, Department of Environment and Geography.

Gideon Baffoe is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Environment and Development in the Department of Environment and Geography. He is also a member of the Interdisciplinary Global Development Centre (IGDC). Gideon is an interdisciplinary scholar with a background in development and sustainability studies. His research experience has centred on socio-economic and ecological systems resilience. He aims to understand and contribute to the processes that enhance the development and sustainability of socioecological and economic systems. He has analysed how socio-cultural and natural environments interact and shape livelihood systems and outcomes in urban and rural landscapes in Africa. 

Prior to joining University of York, he worked as a research fellow at the University of Glasgow and the United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS, Tokyo). At Glasgow, his work focused on investigating sustainable urban neighbourhoods in fast-rising global south cities of Cape Town, Kigali, Dar es Salam, Datong, Manila and Delhi. His work at UNU-IAS was on urban sustainability, where he applied the solution scanning technique to develop a framework to aid the implementation of SDG 9 and 11 in three African countries (Ghana, South Africa and Tanzania). 

Gideon has wide research interests, including but not limited to sustainable neighbourhoods, poverty and inequality, livelihood, climate change, ecosystem services, food security and agricultural development, urbanisation and natural resource governance, among others. He has strong methodological expertise in combining both quantitative and qualitative techniques in socioeconomic and ecological research. His work has been published in leading journals, including Sustainability Science, Ecological Indicators, Cities and Habitat International.

 

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Interdisciplinary Global Development Centre

igdc@york.ac.uk
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Department of Politics and International Relations, University of York, Heslington, York, YO10 5DD, UK
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Gideon Baffoe
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Gideon Baffoe

gideon.baffoe@york.ac.uk

Contact us

Interdisciplinary Global Development Centre

igdc@york.ac.uk
01904 323716
Department of Politics and International Relations, University of York, Heslington, York, YO10 5DD, UK
Twitter

Gideon Baffoe
gideon.baffoe@york.ac.uk