• Bio

Email:

stephan.moonsammy@uog.edu.gy

Academic Qualifications

Bachelor of Science, Environmental and Natural Resource Management - University of the West Indies 2009

Masters of Science, Agricultural Economics - University of the West Indies 2013

PhD in Economics at the University of Portsmouth

Research Papers and Presentations

• Moonsammy, Stephan and Donna-Marie Renn-Moonsammy. 2020. “Social Media Application in Agriculture Extension Programming for Small Scale Rural Farmers: Is Knowledge Impeding the Lack of Adoption?” Journal of International Agricultural & Extension Education 27(3): 27-42.
• Oyedotun, Temitope, Oluwasinaayomi, Faith Kasim, Ayomide Famewo, Temitayo Deborah Oyedotun, Stephan Moonsammy, Nasrudeen Ally, Donna-Marie Renn-Moonsammy. 2020. Municipal waste management in the era of COVID-19: Perceptions, practices, and potentials for research in developing countries. Research in Globalization 2: 1 – 10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resglo.2020.100033.
• Oyedotun, Temitope and Stephan Moonsammy. 2020. Spatio-temporal variation of COVID-19 and its spread in South America: A rapid assessment. Annals of the American Association of Geographers: 1-12. 10.1080/24694452.2020.1830024. 
• Laing, Timothy and Stephan Moonsammy. 2020. Evaluating the impacts of small-scale mining on the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals in Guyana. Environmental Science and Policy 116: 147-159. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2020.11.010. 
• Moonsammy, Stephan, Temitope Oyedotun, Olayinka Oderinde, Mary Durojaiye, and Abiodun Durojaye. 2021. Exhaust determination and air-to-fuel ratio performance of end-of-life vehicles in a developing African country: A case study of Nigeria. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment 91: 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2021.102705.
• Moonsammy, Stephan, Temitope Oyedotun, Donna-Marie Renn-Moonsammy, and Temitayo Oyedotun. 2021. COVID-19 modelling in the Caribbean: Spatial and statistical assessments. Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology 37: 1-10.
• Moonsammy, Stephan, Temitope Oyedotun, Donna-Marie Renn-Moonsammy, Temitayo Oyedotun, Nasrudeen Ally, Oluwasinaayomi Faith Kasim, and Ayomide Famewo. 2021. COVID-19 effects on municipality waste collection services for households: statistical perspectives from Guyana and Nigeria. Journal of Materials Cycle and Waste Management. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10163-021-01225-4.

• Oyedotun, Temitope, Stephan Moonsammy, Temitayo Oyedotun, Gordon Nedd, Ronika Lawrence. 2021. Evaluation of waste dynamics and the local level: The search for a new paradigm in national waste management. Environmental Challenges 4: 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envc.2021.100130.
• Oyedotun, Temitope and Stephan Moonsammy. 2021. Linking National Policies to beneficiaries: Geospatial and statistical focus to waste and sanitation planning. Environmental Challenges 4: 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envc.2021.100142.
• Oluwasinaayomi Faith Kasim, Temitope D. Timothy Oyedotun, Ayomide Famewo, Temitayo Deborah Oyedotun, Stephan Moonsammy, Nasrudeen Ally, and Donna-Marie Renn-Moonsammy. Household waste generation, change in waste composition and the exposure to COVID-19 in Guyana and Nigeria. Scientific African 14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sciaf.2021.e01060.

• Mentis, Alan and Stephan Moonsammy. 2022. A critical assessment of Guyana’s sustainability pathway: perspectives from a developing extractive economy. Resources Policy 76: 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resourpol.2022.102554.

• Requena-Sanchez, Norvin, Dalia Carbonel-Ramos, Stephan Moonsammy, Robert Klaus, Leoncio Sicha Punil, and Kelvin Tsun Wai Ng. 2022. Virtual Methodology for Household Waste Characterization during the Pandemic in an Urban District of Peru: Citizen Science for Waste Management. Environmental Management 22: 1-13. DOI: 10.1007/s00267-022-01610-1.

• Oyedotun, Temitope D. Timothy, Stephan Moonsammy, Jassarae Renn-Moonsammy, Donna-Marie Renn-Moonsammy, Gordon Ansel Nedd, Joy Bishop, and Helene Burningham. "Data consolidation for coastal management: the development of the Guyana coastal database platform." Interdisciplinary Environmental Review 22, no. 2 (2022): 143-162.

• Warner, Devin, Stephan Moonsammy and Jeanelle Joseph. “Factors that influence the use of climate information services for agriculture: A systematic review.” Climate Services 28 (2022): 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cliser.2022.100336.

• Moonsammy, S., Critchlow, K., & Warner, D. (2022). The economic value of a coastal protected area: an assessment of the Shell Beach Area in Guyana. Journal of Coastal Conservation, 26(6), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11852-022-00901-3.

• Requena-Sanchez, N., Carbonel, D., Moonsammy, S., Demel, L., Vallester, E., Velásquez, D., ... & Ng, K. T. W. (2023). COVID-19 impacts on household solid waste generation in six Latin American countries: a participatory approach. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 195(1), 155. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-022-10771-9

• Hardyal, N., Moonsammy, S. & Warner, D. A systematic review of the effects and symptoms of the Dutch Disease globally: Lessons for Guyana. Environ Dev Sustain (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-023-03029-y

• Joseph, M., Moonsammy, S., Davis, H., Warner, D., Adams, A. and Oyedotun, T.D.T., 2023. Modelling climate variabilities and global rice production: A panel regression and time series analysis. Heliyon. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e15480.

• Requena-Sanchez, N. P., Carbonel, D., Demel, L., Moonsammy, S., Richter, A., Mahmud, T. S., & Ng, K. T. W. (2023). A multi-jurisdictional study on the quantification of COVID-19 household plastic waste in six Latin American countries. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 1-12.

Current Research

• Impacts of COVID-19 on Ecotourism in Guyana
• Climate Change and Agriculture Development in Guyana
• Community Dynamics of Marine Plastic Pollution Management

Area of Specialisation

Environmental and Resource Economics

Sustainable Development Policies