Reginald Akindele Cline-Cole (born September 1956 in

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), is a retired Senior Lecturer (equivalent to Associate Professor) and a scholar in Development Geography."Dr Reginald Cline-Cole." School of History and Cultures, University of Birmingham. University of Birmingham, n.d. Web. 11 Nov. 2010. . Upon his formal retirement in May 2021, he was appointed as a Senior Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre of West African Studies, University of Birmingham—an acknowledgement of his extensive experience and expertise in African development.

Life and study

Cline-Cole has done extensive work in the field of development issues in rural environments, as well as

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and its human impact. He was one time head of the Centre of West African Studies,

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(UK). He has previously taught at

Bayero University The Bayero University Kano (BUK) is a university situated in Kano, Kano State, Nigeria. It was founded in 1975, when it was renamed from Bayero University College and upgraded from university college to university. It is the first university i ...

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and

Moi University Moi University is a public university located in Kesses, Eldoret town, Uasin Gishu county, in the former Rift Valley Province of Kenya. It was established in 1984 by the Moi University Act of the Parliament of Kenya, after recommendations from t ...

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. Despite his retirement, he is still actively engaged in supervising postgraduate students (Masters and PhD).

Selected publications

Cline-Cole's recent publications include: * ith Yulong Ma, William A.Stubbings, Mohamed Abou-Elwafa Abdallah, Stuart Harrad Formal waste treatment facilities as a source of halogenated flame retardants and organophosphate esters to the environment: A critical review with particular focus on outdoor air and soil. Science of the Total Environment, Volume 807, Part 1, 10 February 2022, 150747. * ith Yulong Ma, William A. Stubbings and Stuart Harrad Human exposure to halogenated and organophosphate flame retardants through informal e-waste handling activities - A critical review. Environmental Pollution, 115727, 2020. * Bouquets and brickbats along the road to development freedom and sovereignty: commentary on'Rethinking the idea of independent development and self-reliance in Africa. African Review of Economics and Finance, 12(1): 260–281, 2020. * d. with Clare MadgeContesting Forestry in West Africa (Aldershot: Ashgate Press, 2000), * Promoting (Anti-) Social Forestry in Northern Nigeria ?’ in Review of African Political Economy 24 (74), 1997, * Dryland Forestry. Manufacturing Forests and Farming Trees in Nigeria’, in M. Leach and R. Mearns ds The Lie of the Land: Challenging Received Wisdom on the African Environment (James Currey and Heinneman, 1996)

References

1956 births Living people Sierra Leonean academics Sierra Leonean geographers Academics of the University of Birmingham Sierra Leone Creole people Academic staff of Moi University Academic staff of Bayero University Kano {{geographer-stub