Waste & Resource Management Research Group (WARMREG)
Main research focus: Focus of WARMREG is waste and resource management, including policy, political economy, livelihood vulnerability and sustainability of urban waste and resource governance
Title of most recent research project: Knowledge, Attitude and Behaviour of Households to Sustainable Municipal Solid Waste Management in Abakaliki Metropolis, Ebonyi State
Other current or completed research projects:
- Municipal solid waste management in an African university campus during COVID-19 pandemic: a justice and sustainability perspective
- Urban political ecology of Solid waste management in Akure, Ondo State
- COVID-19 pandemic and informal urban governance in Africa: A political economy perspective
- Solid waste management during Covid-19 pandemic: policy gaps and prospects for inclusive waste governance in Nigeria
- Value reclamation from informal municipal solid waste Management: Green neoliberalism and inclusive development in the Lagos, Nigeria
- Children, waste and well-being: A critical analysis of socio-environmental justice in Almajirai solid waste management in Northern Nigerian Cities
- Waste scavenging and recycling in Aba urban area of Nigeria
Name of the Coordinator: Prof Chidi Nzeadibe
Email of Coordinator: chidi.nzeadibe@unn.edu.ng
Tel: +234 803 772 7927
UNN email address of the RG:
Current webpage of the RG:
Base Faculty: Faculty of the Social Sciences
Department of the Coordinator: Geography
- Chidi Nzeadibe is Professor of Environmental Management & Sustainability, Head, Department of Geography, and a Senior Research Fellow at the Resource and Environmental Policy Research Centre (REPRC), University of Nigeria, Nsukka. His areas of teaching and research expertise include Sustainable Environmental Management, Environmental and Social Impact Assessment, Climate Change Awareness and Adaptation, vulnerability to flood risk, Political Ecology, Solid Waste Management in urban governance, Waste picking, gender analysis and Informal sector recycling
Google Scholar Citation
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Jfs1ne0AAAAJ&hl=en
Researchgate Profile
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Chidi_Nzeadibe
- Chukwuedozie Ajaero is a Professor of Population Geography and the Deputy Provost of the College of Postgraduate Studies, University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN). He was a Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Scholar with the Demography and Population Studies Programme of the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. Prof Ajaero is also a Senior Research Fellow at Resource and Environmental Policy Research Centre (REPRC) EfD-Nigeria. His areas of research include migration and displacements, public health and quality of life, and population-environment linkages. Profile | UNN Staff profile
Google scholar link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=zc74xbMAAAAJ&hl=en
Research Gate link: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Chukwuedozie-Ajaero
- Adeyemi Adewoyin is a lecturer in the Department of Geography, University of Nigeria, Nsukka. He was URC Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. He holds a top-of-the class B.Sc. degree in Geography and Planning Science from the then Ondo State University, Ado-Ekiti, two Master’s degree in Political Geography and Geographic Information Systems from the University of Ibadan, a third Master’s degree in Business Administration and a Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Planning, both from the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, Nigeria. His research interests are in Health Geography and Regional Planning, Political Geography and GIS , and Urban and Environmental Management.
Yemi Adewoyin – Google Scholar
Yemi Adewoyin (researchgate.net)
- Ijeoma Dorathy Ajaero is a senior lecturer in the Department of Mass Communication, University of Nigeria, Nsukka. She obtained a Ph.D in Mass Communication and her areas of research interest are Environmental Communication, Gender and Health studies, Development Communication.
Ijeoma Dorathy Ajaero – Google Scholar
Ijeoma Ajaero (researchgate.net)
- Godson Chinonyerem Asuoha is a lecturer in the Department of Geography, University of Nigeria, Nsukka. He obtained a Ph.D in Biogeography from the Department of Geography, University of Nigeria, Nsukka and his areas of research interest include biogeography, biodiversity conservation and climate change.
Godson Chinonyerem Asuoha – Google Scholar
Godson Chinonyerem Asuoha (researchgate.net)
- Eberechukwu Jennifer Ezeah is a lecturer in the Department of Geography, University of Nigeria, Nsukka. She is currently a Ph.D student specializing in population Geography.
Eberechukwu J. Eze – Google Scholar
Eberechukwu Eze (researchgate.net)
- Onyinyechi Gift Ossai is a lecturer in the Department of Geography, University of Nigeria, Nsukka. She is currently a Ph.D student specializing in Urban Geography. She has research interests in Urban development, urban sociology, urban inclusion (spatial, social and economic inclusion), urban sustainability and Urban agriculture.
Onyinyechi Ossai – Google Scholar
Onyinyechi Gift Ossai (researchgate.net)
- Cletus Famous Nwankwo is a Lecturer in the Department of Geography at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) and studies for a PhD at the University of Leicester, UK. He is an Associate Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) in the UK and member of the International Geographical Union Commission on Geography of Governance. He is a post-human enthusiast interested in conflicts.
Cletus Famous Nwankwo (researchgate.net)
- Adaeze Ejike-Alieji is a lecture in the Department of Geography, Alex Ekwueme Federal University Ndufu-Alike, Ebonyi State and a Ph.D student of the Department of Geography, University of Nigeria, Nsukka. She is specializing Environmental Management.
Adaeze U.P Ejike-Alieji – Google Scholar
Adaeze U.P Ejike-Alieji (researchgate.net)
- Helen Nneka Okpala, Chartered Librarian (MLS; CLN; SAP), is a Senior Librarian at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Library, University of Nigeria, Nsukka. She obtained an MLS, Software in Libraries and is currently a Ph.D Student of the Department of Library and information Science, University of Nigeria, Nsukka.
Helen Nneka Okpala’s Profile – Nnamdi Azikiwe Library (unn.edu.ng)
Helen Nneka Okpala (ORCID:org/0000-0002-8552-4721) – Google Scholar
Helen Nneka Eke-Okpala (researchgate.net)
10 key publications of the RG from 2019 till date
- Ajaero, C, K., Ebimgbo, S., Ezeibe, C., Ugwu, C., Nzeadibe, C., Osabede, N,(2023). Life Satisfaction in South Africa: The Infuence of Inter‑Provincial Migration Status, Psychological Studies https://doi.org/10.1007/s12646-022-00697-0
- Adewoyin, Y., Ajaero, C.K. and Odimegwu, C.O. (2022). Contexts, Beliefs and Health Behaviour: Are Individuals who Engage in Risky Sexual Behaviour likely to Wear Facemasks against Covid-19? Journal of Public Health in Africa 13, 2032
- Lenshie, N.E., Ojeh, V.N., Oruonye, E.D., Ezeibe, C., Ajaero, C., Nzeadibe, T.C., Udeogu, C. & Osadebe, N. (2022): Geopolitics of climate change-induced conflict and population displacement in West Africa, Local Environment, DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2022.2040461
- Anazonwu, N.P., Nnamani, K.E., Osadebe, N., Anichebe, O., Ezeibe, C.C., Mbah, P.O and Nzeadibe, T.C. (2022). State Actors, Human Rights Violations and Informal Livelihoods during the Covid-19 Pandemic in Nigeria. Territory, Politics, Governance. DOI: 10.1080/21622671.2021.1976262
- Onyishi, C.J., Ejike-Alieji, A.U.P., Ajaero, C.K., Mbaegbu,C.C., Ezeibe, C.C., Onyebueke , V.O., Mbah, P.O and Nzeadibe, T.C. (2021).COVID-19 pandemic and informal urban governance in Africa: A political economy perspective. Journal of Asian and African Studies 56(6) 1226–1250. DOI: 10.1177/0021909620960163
- Makinde, O.A., Akinyemi, J., Ntoimo, L.F.C., Ajaero, C.K., Ononokpono, D., Banda, Y., Adewoyin, Y., Olamijuwon, E., Reba, P., Ugwu, H. and Odimegwu, C.O. (2021). Risk Assessment for Covid-19 Transmission at Household Level in Sub-Saharan Africa – Evidence from DHS. Genus, 2021, 77(24), https://doi.org/10.1186/s41118-021-00130-w
- Nzeadibe, T.C and Ejike-Alieji, A.U.P.(2020). Solid waste management during Covid-19 pandemic: policy gaps and prospects for inclusive waste governance in Nigeria. Local Environment: DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2020.1782357. Journal of Asian and African Studies, DOI: 10.1177/0021909620907934
- CC Ezeibe, C Ilo, EN Ezeibe, CN Oguonu, NA Nwankwo, CK Ajaero, Osadebe, N.O (2020). Political distrust and the spread of COVID-19 in Nigeria. Global Public Health 15 (12), 1753-1766
- C Ezeibe, C Oguonu, CK Ajaero, N Osadebe, H Agbo… From Vulnerability to Sustainability: Implementation of Free Education Programmes and Reversal of Child Trafficking in Nigeria – Journal of Human Trafficking, Pages 104-118
Mbah, P.O., Ezirim, G.E., Ezeibe, C.C, Onyishi, C.J. and Nzeadibe, T.C. (2019).Value reclamation from informal municipal solid waste Management: Green neoliberalism and inclusive development in the Lagos, Nigeria. Local Environment 24 (10), 949-967.
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