Professor Joseph Uyanga

Professor Joseph Uyanga is a Professor of Environmental Management in University of Uyo, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria formerly of Federal University of Technology, Yola, Adamawa State. He obtained his Ph.D degree in Urban and Regional Planning from Flinders University of South Australia, Australia. He belongs to several learned and professional bodies such as Australian Geographical Association; Nigerian Geographical Association; Population Reference Bureau, USA; Rivers State Association of Planners; African Studies Association, USA; Royal Australian Planning Institute; African Association of Social Science and medicine; International Union for Scientific Study for Population; Population Association of Nigeria; Nigerian Environmental Society and institute of Management. He is the Editorial Consultants to the following journals, Indonesian Journal of Tropical Geography, Singapore, Journal of Scientific and Scholarly Research, Langston University, Oklahoma. He is the Consulting Editor of the contemporary Who’s Who of the American Biographical Institute. Professor Uyanga, an internationally renowned researcher, has carried out several internationally funded research projects by the Canadian International Development Research Council, The Rockerfeller Foundation, the United Nations Fund for Population Activities and the Union for African Population Studies. An astute teacher and prolific writer, he has over twenty Masters and Ph.D Students under his supervision. He has published six books, fifteen chapters in books and forty-five articles in national and international journals and thirty-three conference papers.