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
