Dr ESSUMAN-QUAINOO Benedict

Short Bio

Dr. Essuman-Quainoo’s research focuses on urban ecosystems and the interplay between nature and society. His work has been published in prestigious journals such as Urban Forestry & Urban Greening. He combines empathy and organizational skills to create a supportive learning environment.

He bagged his PhD from The Education University Hong Kong in 2024. He holds a master’s in Ecology and Nature Management from Kazan Federal University (Russian Federation) and a bachelor’s in Environment and Resource Management from the University for Development Studies, Ghana. He worked as a Teaching Assistant at the Department of Applied and Landscape Ecology (Kazan Federal University), and had part-time stints as a junior high school (Russia) and primary school teacher (Russia).

He is the recipient of Greenbuild 2023 Scholarship (USA Green Building Council), Young Green Warrior Award (World Green Infrastructure Congress 2023, Berlin, Germany), and Outstanding Presentation Award (FLASS, EdUHK). 

He is the youngest Board Member of the World Green Infrastructure Network (WGIN) and serves as President of its Emerging Professionals Chapter (CEP), where he passionately advocates for sustainable cities on a global scale.

Research Areas

Nature-based Solutions 
Green Infrastructure 
Green roofs and Green walls

Teaching Areas

Sustainable City Strategies 
Climate Change Adaptation 
Global Environmental Issues 
Interdisciplinary Studies

Selected Publications

Essuman-Quainoo, B., & Jim, C. Y. (2023). Understanding the drivers of green roofs and green walls adoption in Global South cities: Analysis of Accra, Ghana. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 89, 128106. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2023.128106 

Yermolayev, O., Platoncheva, E., & Essuman-Quainoo, B. (2020). Spatial-temporal dynamics of the ephemeral gully belt on the plowed slopes of river basins in natural and anthropogenic landscapes of the east of the Russian Plain. Geosciences, 10(5), 167. https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences10050167 

Andreevich, I. M., Sayasovna, M. S., Petrovich, Y. O., & Essuman-Quainoo, B. (2020). Mapping croplands with a long history of crop cultivation using time series of MODIS vegetation indices. Ученые записки Казанского университета. Серия Естественные науки, 162(2), 302-313. https://kpfu.ru/portal/docs/F1853711371/162_2_est_8.pdf   

Sharifullin, A., Gafurov, A., Medvedeva, R., Golosov, V., Dvinskih, A., Gusarov, A., & Essuman-Quainoo, B. (2019). Contemporary gully erosion trend in the northern part of the forest-steppe zone of the Russian Plain: a case study from the Republic of Tatarstan, European Russia. Proceedings of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences, 381, 21-24. https://doi.org/10.5194/piahs-381-21-2019

Kondrateva, T. A., Stepanova, N. Y., & Essuman-Quainoo, B. (2019). Risk Assessment of Anthropogenic Impact on Water Ecosystems Based on Chemical and Biological Monitoring Data. In IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 272, 2,. 022206. IOP Publishing.  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/272/2/022206/pdf  

Safina, G. R., Fedorova, V. A., & Essuman-Quainoo, B. (2019). Digital economy as a factor of increasing the competitiveness of cities and the improvement in the quality of life of citizens. In Urbanization and Regional Development in Russia and Europe (pp. 62-65).

Essuman-Quainoo, B., Safina, G. R., & Fedorova, V. A. (2019). Digitalization processes in supply chain management as a factor of forming smart cities and the improvement of the quality of urban environment. Int. J Sup. Chain. Mgt. 8(3), 526.  https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/230747736.pdf  

Sharifullin, A., Gusarov, A., Gafurov, A., & Essuman-Quainoo, B. (2018). Preliminary estimating the contemporary sedimentation trend in dry valley bottoms of first-order catchments of different landscape zones of the Russian Plain using the 137Cs as a chronomarker. In IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science (Vol. 107, No. 1, p. 012022). IOP Publishing.  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/107/1/012022/pdf 

Fedorova, V. A., Safina, G. R., & Essuman-Quainoo, B. (2018, August). Delimitation and analysis of the spatial structure of the Kazan urban agglomeration. In IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science. 177, 012008. IOP Publishing. 10.1088/1755-1315/177/1/012008