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Frederick Dapilah

Senior Lecturer, Department of Community Development, SD Dombo University of Business and Integrated Development Studies

Dr Frederick Dapilah is a senior lecturer in the Department of Community Development, Simon Diedong Dombo University of Business and Integrated Development Studies, Wa, Ghana. He obtained his doctorate in geography from Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, in 2020 with a dissertation entitled “Climate change adaptation in the Global South: navigating complexity to build adaptive capacity and resilience to climate change in Northern Ghana”. Frederick’s research is at the intersection of human-environment relations, focusing on human dimensions of vulnerability, adaptation and resilience in the context of climate change and how these open up for exploration of efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement. He is a postdoctoral fellow of the Climate Change Research in Africa programme (ClimapAfrica) and the NDC Financing Fellowship Programme (NDC-FFP). In addition, he is an editorial board member of SN Social Science journal and works as a guest editor for the journal Regional Environmental Change.
(https://ubids.edu.gh/fplm/departments/community-development)

Experience

  • –present
    Senior Lecturer, Department of Community Development, SD Dombo University of Business and Integrated Development Studies