Reginald Cline-Cole is a University lecturer and scholar of Developmental Geography.

Life and study

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

Forestry

Forestry is the interdisciplinary profession embracing the science, art, and craft of creating, managing, using, and conserving forests and associated resources in a sustainable manner to meet desired goals, needs, and values for human benefit. Forestry is practiced in plantations and natural stands...

 and its human impact. Now the head of the Centre of West African Studies

Centre of West African Studies

Centre of West African Studies is a division of the School of Historical Studies at the University of Birmingham . The centre provides teaching and research into issues of African development, culture, anthropology, sociology, politics, history, and the legacies of the African diaspora,...

, University of Birmingham

University of Birmingham

The University of Birmingham is a British Redbrick university located in the city of Birmingham, England. It received its royal charter in 1900 as a successor to Birmingham Medical School and Mason Science College . Birmingham was the first Redbrick university to gain a charter and thus...

 (UK). He has previously taught at Bayero University

Bayero University

Bayero University Kano is a university situated in Kano, Kano State, Nigeria. It was founded in 1977, when it was renamed from Bayero University College and upgraded from university college to university; in 1980 it ceased functioning as a faculty of the Ahmadu Bello University...

, Nigeria

Nigeria

Nigeria , officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal constitutional republic comprising 36 states and its Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The country is located in West Africa and shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in...

 and Moi University

Moi University

Moi University is a Kenyan public university located in Eldoret, western Kenya. It is one of seven fully fledged public institutions of higher learning in Kenya...

, Kenya

Kenya

Kenya , officially known as the Republic of Kenya, is a country in East Africa that lies on the equator, with the Indian Ocean to its south-east...

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Selected publications

Cline-Cole’s recent publications include:

• [ed. with Clare Madge] Contesting 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 [eds], The Lie of the Land: Challenging Received Wisdom on the African Environment (James Currey and Heinneman, 1996)