Areas Of Interest /Summary Of Expertise
Activities/Responsibilities
Current teaching responsibilities
- GEOG 213-The Physical Basis of Climate
- GEOG 214- Climatic System and Regional Climates
Administrative Experience
• Member, Environmental Committee, Faculty of the Social Sciences, UNN (2012-2014)
• Chairman, Departmental Environmental Committee (2012 to Date)
• Member, Departmental Examinations Committee (2011-Date)
• Member, Departmental Curriculum Committee (2012 to date)
• Member, Departmental Welfare Committee (2012 to Date)
Other scholarly activities
• Member, Nigerian Association of Hydrological Sciences
Research Archive
Current research and publications:
- Obeta, M.C, Ochege, F.U and Ezeh, C.U(2012): Distinct flood characteristics in Selected Urban Areas of Southeastern Nigeria. Conference proceedings NAHS 2012Abeokuta Nigeria.
- Mozie, A.T, Onyekwelu, C.A, Ayadiuno, R.U and Ezeh, C.U(2014): A comparative Analysis of Relevant Erosion Variables in Two Sixth Order Basins in Tropical Humid Southeastern Nigeria.
International Journal of Research in Arts and Social Sciences
Mr. Christopher Uche Ezeh
NAME: Mr. Christopher Uche Ezeh
POSITION: Graduate Assistant
CONTACT ADDRESS: Department of Geography, University of Nigeria,Nsukka, Nigeria
E-mail address: christopher-uche.ezeh@unn.edu.ng
Telephone:: +234 806 157 8432
Brief Biography
Mr. Christopher Ezeh is a Graduate Assistant in the Department of Geography University of Nigeria Nsukka. He has a B.Sc Certificate in Geography with First Class Honours in 2010 and recently completed his M.Sc programme in the field of Climatology. He has been to a number of conferences in Nigeria. He has two publications.
Areas Of Interest /Summary Of Expertise
• Recycling
• Solid Waste in Urban Governance & Resource Management
• Informal Economy , Poverty & Livelihoods
• Social Impact Assessment (SIA)
• Quality of Life (QoL) and Happiness Research
• Climate Change Governance, Awareness and Indigenous Innovations for Adaptation
• Garbage Geographies
• Political Ecology (PE)
Activities/Responsibilities
• GEO 391- Research Design & Methodology (Coordinator)
• GEO 262- Introduction to Environmental Science
• GEO 382- Geographical Regions of Africa
• GEO 463- Environmental Protection & Management
• GEO 461- Geography in Regional Planning (Coordinator)
• GEO 501- Perspectives on Geography Theory & Research Methods (Coordinator)
• GEO 561- Environmental Pollution, Control and Management
• DEM 0554- Environmental Problems in Nigeria
Other scholarly activities
• Member, World Environmental Education Congress (WEEC) Network (2013)
• Member, Sustainability Transitions Research Network (STRN)(2013)
• Member, Association of Nigerian Geographers
• Senior Research Fellow , Institute for French Research in Africa (IFRA)
• Member, International Partnership for Expanding Waste Management Services of Local Authorities (IPLA)
• Member, African Technology Policy Studies Network (ATPS)
• Member, Global Development Network (GDNET)
• Member, Collaborative Working Group on Solid Waste Management in Middle- and Low-income countries (CWG)
Research Archive
Current research and publications:
- Nzeadibe, T.C.(2013). Informal waste management in Africa: Perspectives and lessons from Nigerian garbage geographies. Geography Compass vol. 7(10), 729–744. DOI: 10.1111/gec3.12072.
- Ajaero, C.K., Nzeadibe .T.C and Ikejiofor, I.G. (2013). Estimating the regional impact of CO2 emissions on environment of Africa. Nigerian Journal of Social Sciences 9(1), 62-77.
- Olelewe, C.J., Nzeadibe, A.C., and Nzeadibe, T.C (2014). Availability and Utilization of Educational Resources in selected Rural Communities of Enugu State: Implications for Achieving Universal Primary Education of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Nigeria. Educational Research International 3(1), 15-24.
- Nzeadibe, T.C. and Adama, O.(2013).Improved recycling performance: Policy options for Nigerian cities. Policy Notes, 2013/2, pp.1-4. Uppsala, Sweden: The Nordic Africa Institute.Available at http://nai.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:653251/FULLTEXT01.pdf
- Nzeadibe, T.C and Anyadike, R.N.C. (2012).Social participation in city governance and urban livelihoods: Constraints to the informal recycling economy in Aba, Nigeria. City, Culture and Society 3(4), 313-325. DOI: 10.1016/j.ccs.2012.10.001.
- Nzeadibe, T.C., Anyadike, R.N.C. and Njoku-Tony, R.F. (2012). A mixed methods approach to vulnerability and quality of life assessment of waste picking in urban Nigeria. Applied Research in Quality of Life. 7(4),351-370. DOI: 10.1007/s11482-012-9171-0.
- Nzeadibe T.C., Egbule, C.L., Chukwuone, N.A., Agwu, A.E and Agu, V.C (2012). Indigenous innovations for climate change adaptation in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. Environment, Development and Sustainability, 14(6), 901-914. DOI: 10.1007/s10668-012-9359-3.
- Nzeadibe, T. and Madu, I. (2012). Open Dump. In: Zimring, C.A and Rathje, W.L (Eds). Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste: The Social Science of Garbage. (pp. 632-634). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. doi: 10.4135/9781452218526.n242.
- Agbo, A.A., Nzeadibe, T.C & Ajaero, C.K. (2012).Happiness in Nigeria: A Socio-Cultural Analysis. In: Selin, H. and Davey, G. (eds.), Happiness across Cultures: Views of Happiness and Quality of Life in Non-Western Cultures. DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-2700-7_20, Dodrecht: Springer Science+Business Media B.V., ISBN 978-94-007-2699-4, pp.293-310.
Research archive
Selected previous publications
- Nzeadibe, T.C. and Ajaero, C.K (2011). Development impact of advocacy initiatives in solid waste management in Nigeria. Environment, Development and Sustainability,13(1)163-177.DOI 10.1007/s10668-010-9254-8.
- Nzeadibe, T.C. and Onah, C.M. (2011).Assessment of public attitudes and behaviours to solid waste management in Abuja, Nigeria. Nigerian Journal of Geography and the Environment, 2(2), 344-359.
- Nzeadibe, T.C. and Anyadike, R.N.C (2010).Solid waste governance innovations: an appraisal of recent developments in the informal sector niche in urban Nigeria. Geography Compass. 4 (9) 1284–1296. DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-8198.2010.00385.x
- Nzeadibe, T.C, Ayadiuno, R.U and Akukwe, T.I. (2010).Solid waste governance in Owerri urban area, Nigeria: problems and prospects. Waste Management, 30 (2), 355-357. DOI:10.1016/j.wasman.2009.11.009.
- Nzeadibe, T.C and C.K Ajaero.(2010). Assessment of socio-economic characteristics and quality of life expectations in rural communities of Enugu State, Nigeria. Applied Research in Quality of Life. 5 (4) 353-371. DOI: 10.1007/s11482-010-9096-4.
- Nzeadibe, T.C (2009). Solid waste reforms and informal recycling in Enugu urban area, Nigeria. Habitat International, 33 (1) 93-99.DOI:10.1016/j.habitatint.2008.05.006.
- Nzeadibe, T.C (2009). Development drivers of waste recycling in Nsukka urban area, Southeastern Nigeria. Theoretical and Empirical Researches in Urban Management (TERUM), 3(12), pp.137-149. Available at http://www.um.ase.ro/No12/11.pdf.
Journal citation impact:
A citation record search dated 17th July 2014 on T.C. Nzeadibe's international publications based on Google® Scholar and Scopus (registered trademark of Elsevier B.V.) indicated a total citation count of 169, an h-Index of 8 and i10-index of 5 (on Google Scholar), and citation count of 53 and h-index of 4 on Scopus . My articles published in the Elsevier Journals Habitat International (2009) with a citation count of 42 and City , Culture and Society (2012) with a citation count of 5 have been listed among the 25 most cited articles published in the journals since 2008 and 2009 respectively. Information is extracted from SciVerse Scopus (see http://www.journals.elsevier.com/habitat-international/most-cited-articles/ and http://0-www.journals.elsevier.com.brum.beds.ac.uk/city-culture-and-soci... for more information.
Dr. Thaddeus Chidi Nzeadibe
NAME: Dr. Thaddeus Chidi Nzeadibe
POSITION: Senior Lecturer
CONTACT ADDRESS: Department of Geography, University of Nigeria, 410001 Nsukka, Nigeria
E-mail address: chidi.nzeadibe@unn.edu.ng
Telephone: +234 803 772 7927
Brief Biography
Dr. Thaddeus Chidi Nzeadibe, an environmental professional and chartered waste manager, is a Senior Lecturer and Coordinator of Postgraduate Programmes in the Department of Geography, University of Nigeria, Nsukka. He is also a Visiting Scholar at the Nordic Africa Institute (NAI) Uppsala, Sweden. He holds a PhD in Environmental Management and an M.Sc and B.Sc in Geography. He has been involved in consultancy, teaching, research and
publication in Geography, Environmental Science, Waste Management and Recycling; Social Impact/Quality of Life Assessment in Nigeria, as well as Climate Change Governance, Awareness and Indigenous Innovations for Adaptation. Chidi has won research grants from the International Foundation for Science (IFS), Stockholm, Sweden and African Technology Policy Studies Network (ATPS), Nairobi, Kenya. He has also conducted funded research for
the NAI, Uppsala , and Africa Institute of South Africa (AISA), Pretoria/ University of Mauritius, Reduit. He has participated in a project on Sustainable Land Management titled Resilient Agriculture-based Livelihoods and Resilient Agricultural Landscapes in Nigeria for the Swiss National Science Foundation and Centre for Development and Environment, (CDE)/University of Bern, Switzerland (2013). Dr. Nzeadibe has also consulted for the United Nations Environment Programme, Division of Technology, Industry and Economics ,International Environmental Technology Centre, Osaka, Japan for the Global Waste Management Outlook (GWMO)(January 2014). He has to his credit 19 peer-reviewed Journal articles, 1 book (co-author), 6 book chapter contributions,
- encyclopaedia entry,
- Working papers ,
- policy briefs and numerous conference presentations at first-rate international conferences including the UNECA/AUC/AfDB-organized First Climate Change and Development for Africa (CCDA-I) Conference (Addis Ababa , Ethiopia , October 2011) and the Second Nordic Conference for Development Research (Espoo, Finland, November 2013). He is a recipient of the CIWM International Members Award which was presented at Paignton, UK (June 2007) .
Dr. Nzeadibe has been invited by Thomson Reuters and participated in 2010 & 2012 Academic Reputation Survey to help improve Times Higher Education World University Rankings and support Institutional Profiles (2010 & 2012). This survey was part of Thomson Reuters Global Institutional Profiles Project. To view Chidi’s Google Scholar citations profile , visit http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Jfs1ne0AAAAJ&hl=en
Research Archive
Current research and publications:
- Anticoccidial activity of the methanolic extract of Musa paradisiacal roots in chicken
- Comparative assessment of postmortem inspection and immunochromatographic techniques for the detection of Bovine tuberculosis in slaughter cattle in Nigeria
- In vivo antimalarial activities of Enantia polycarpa skin bark against plasmodium berghei berghei in mice
- Normal haematological and serum biochemistry values of African hedgehog (Atelerix albiventis
Dr. Okorie-Kanu Onyinye
NAME: Okorie-kanu, Onyinye Josephine
POSITION: Lecturer II
CONTACT ADDRESS: Department of Vet Public Health & Preventive Medicine, University of Nigeria Nsukka.
E-mail address: Onyinye.okoro@unn.edu.ng
Telephone:
Brief Biography
Dr. Okorie-Kanu obtained Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) in 2006 at the University of Nigeria. She holds a Masters degree in Vet. Public Health also from UNN University. She holds a Certificate in Emerging Infectious Disease (CEID), from the University of Florida, USA. She also distinguished herself as the best graduating student in Faculty of Veterinary medicine, UNN She is happily married with kids
Areas Of Interest /Summary Of Expertise
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Mrs Ikechukwu Stella Nkechinyere
NAME: Ikechukwu, Stella Nkechinyere
POSITION: Principal Medical laboratory technologist
CONTACT ADDRESS: : Department of Vet Public Health & Preventive Medicine, University of Nigeria Nsukka
E-mail address: stella.ikechukwu@unn.edu.ng
Telephone:
Brief Biography
Mrs Ikechukwu is from Oru LGA of Imo State. She is a fellow Medical Laboratory science of Nigeria. She is happily married with kids
Areas Of Interest /Summary Of Expertise
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Activities/Responsibilities
Mrs Ozomadu Anthonia
NAME: Ozomadu Anthonia Chinyere
POSITION: Senior typist
CONTACT ADDRESS: Department of Vet Public Health & Preventive Medicine, University of Nigeria Nsukka.
E-mail address: anthonia.ozomadu@unn.edu.ng
Telephone:
Brief Biography
Mrs Ozomadu is married to Johnson Ozomadu of Amangwu Amandim Olo village in Ezeagu LGA of Enugu State. She has NABTEB – 50 word per minute advanced level and a diploma in community development (Adult education). She is a professional typist and acting secretary of the afore mentioned department