News, Events and Case Studies

RLN co-lead Professor Sian Davies Vollum gave seminars on the management framework for lagoons that the network have developed. RLN members Dr Funmilayo Doherty and Dr Idowu Aneyo hosted the seminars

RLN members visited lagoon stakeholders and communities to understand the key issues for lagoon sustainability. They visited Lagos, Epe and Lekki lagoons. The photo here is a visit to the Makoko community who live directly on Lagos lagoon in houses built on stilts

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