Marcus Ogwu Edino is a research fellow in Geography Department at Colgate University New York. He holds a PhD and MSc from the Glasgow Caledonian University UK. He received the sustainability graduate scholar award twice (at the 8th and 10th Sustainability conferences in Vancouver Canada 2012 and at the University of Split in Croatia in 2014 respectively). He also received a teaching excellence award from the Glasgow Caledonian University UK in 2012. Dr Edino won the Valpak prize for the best graduating student at the end of his MSc programme in Energy and Environmental Management at the same institution in 2008. Both PhD and MSc were funded by the Petroleum Technology Development Fund of Nigeria whose scholarship he won twice. Prior to this, he obtained an MTech in Geography with Environmental Pollution and Waste Management from the Federal University of Technology, Minna, Nigeria in 2007 as well as a BSc (Hons) in Geography from the University of Jos, Nigeria. He was named one of the 30 most outstanding black students in Britain in 2010. In 2011, he was a regional runner up in the British Council's International Student of the year award (SHINE). Dr Edino’s research interests include: environmental and social sustainability; indigenous communities, environmental impact assessment, resource conflict, natural resources and sustainability, poverty and development, climate change, sustainable community development, and peace and conflict studies.
Dr Edino currently teaches Environmental Security and Population analysis. He is also a consultant with International Alert London UK.
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