Peter Narh is an Environmental Social Scientist at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana. He researches African land and natural resources conservation and governance. Currently, his research focus on social formations and conservation in environmental resources systems in Ghana and Kenya. He holds a PhD in Development Studies (Environmental governance option) from the University of Bayreuth in Germany.
PhD in Development Studies (Environmental governance specialization), University of Bayreuth, Germany
MPhil in Development Studies, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana
BA in Geography and Resource Development, University of Ghana
- Environmental social infrastructures and technologies
- Natural resources relations and land sustainabilities
- Environmental resources conservation
Peter Narh currently is involved in the following projects:
- Personal research: Social formations and conservation in forestry and fishery in Kenya and Ghana.
- Member of research team: Transregional research on the changing nature of precarious work in Africa and the Arab region, Project is funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York.
- Member of research team: Domestic Security Implications of UN Peacekeeping i(D-SIP), Project is funded by the Danish Institute for International Studies.
- Member of research team: Oil and Gas implications for urban space in Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana. Project is funded by Ghana Gas Company.
Narh, P (2025). Social justice and infrastructure approach to youth development in Ghana. Contemporary Journal of African Studies Vol. 12 No. 1 (2025), pp.103-141. https://dx.doi.org/10.4314/contjas.v12i1.4
Narh, P. (2024). A Social Pathway to Land Governance and Production in Rural Ghana (Peter Narh), in: Land Governance and Conflict in West Africa through Interdisciplinary Empirical Lenses, MIASA Working Paper No 2024(1). (Accepted Working Paper)
Nolte, K., Coulibaly, M, and Narh, P. (2024). Foreign and Domestic Interest in Agricultural Land in West Africa. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190277734.013.818
Collins Adu-Bempah Brobbey and Peter Narh (2024). Politics of news-sharing in contemporary mass media channels in Ghana: Reflecting indigenization of communicative acts and protocols. Vol.21 (2) Ghana Social Science Journal. https://journals.ug.edu.gh/index.php/gssj/issue/current
Undergraduate level
- UGRC220, Appropriate Technology for Development in Africa, University of Ghana Accra city campus
- UGRC 220, Appropriate Technology for Development in Africa, University of Ghana Takoradi city campus
- UGRC220, Appropriate Technology for Development in Africa, UG Main campus
Graduate level
- AFST727, Topics in Research Methods
- AFST712, Water Resources, Livelihoods, and Development