News and Events

The Resilient lagoon Network were honored to be invited by AMS to discuss how we used our GCRF award to build our network at an induction event for new grant awardees.

RLN is now an affiliate member of FRESHPPACT, who are working on alternates to plastics in the food production industry in Ghana. The build up of plastics is a huge problem in lagoons.

Part of an IES webinar for their Turning the Tide Project.

Part of the Kpeshi lagoon sits inside the grounds of the Labadi beach hotel. RLN visited to find out how the hotel manages the lagoon.

The Resilient Lagoon Network is pleased to partner with the Blue Resources Research and Policy Institute in Ghana.

The River Recycle project at Kpeshi lagoon is working to remove and recycle plastics at this large urban lagoon in Accra.

The Resilient Lagoon Network is pleased to be welcomed as an affiliate member of Future Earth Coasts. We visited their offices at the African Centre of Excellence for Coastal Resilience in Ghana to discuss how we can work together

We are working with Innohub in Ghana to support entrepreneurial solutions to coastal challenges. We held our launch event in May 2022

Watch our Time for Geography video about the impacts of climate change at Muni lagoon. Click on read more to access the link

We published the article: Resilient lagoons? Climate Change, Sustainability and adaptation in the Journal of Geography. Click on read more for the details

The Resilient Lagoon Network West Africa Conference took place July 2022 to develop a framework for sustainable lagoon management. A multi-disciplinary group of academics and practitioners contributed to the discussion and development of the framework, which we hope to launch in 2023.

Our second stakeholder conference takes place on July 6th 2022. It is a hybrid event hosted by University of Education Winneba in Ghana. Please contact us by June 29th if you would like to attend the conference online.