Ségùn Ehinfun
PhD Student
Profile
Biography
A Politics and Environment PhD. Student working on how an appreciation of the reality of climate action, biodiversity and environmental remediation can be integrated with sustainable social strategies. Ultimately, transforming development policy in least/low developed countries (LDCs)and economies. Investigating how the adoption of joined-up governance, climate and environmental policies, with community participation can lead to sustainable impact.
Before commencing his PhD. In 2022, ‘Ségùn worked as Managing Consultant at Global Business Dynamics Consultancy- a business development and strategy intelligence firm focused on emerging and frontiers market economies.
Career
- PhD. Environment and Politics. University of York. (2022- In-View)
- Masters in Business Administration. University of Kent. (2007)
- BSc. Management and Accounting. Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife. (2003)
Research
Overview
An Analyses of the Effects of An Absence of Governance & Community Solutions in Combating Environmental Degradation’
The ability, capacity and wherewithal of developing economies and countries to cope with externalities and challenges arising from climate change is significantly constrained by underdevelopment and poverty. The indigent and poorer communities, who inevitably suffer disproportionately from climate problems, need the state and responsive governments and/or institutions to take proactive actions in the areas of climate change impacts amelioration, mitigation, and adaptation.
Research on the underlying relationships and dynamics between an absence of political will, governance, and community solutions in ultimately ameliorating, arresting and impacting/combating environment degradation must be effectively anchored within certain governance and sustainability concepts and precepts. The Sustainability Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations (UN), the African Union’s (AU) Climate Change Resilient Development Action Plan and the African Finance Development Bank’s (AFDB) work on Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptations. This is in addition to the immense work of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), as well as the various Conference of Parties (COP) fora.
This research aims to expand the body of knowledge by seeking to understand (the):
- Commonalities in political attitudes, environmental management outlooks and practices of the Lake Chad basin states (Northeastern Nigeria) and countries, as well as the Niger-River Delta Basin states (NRDB) due to their shared commonality: The destruction, erosion of their land, fauna and flora - an ecological near-wasteland- leading (in part) to the restiveness in their respective regions - Boko Haram Terrorism (BHT).
- Precepts and conceptual frameworks that could assist communities experiencing externalities like climate change, land and water degradation, biodiversity erosion.
- Positionality (Political, Socio-Economic and Religious dynamics) on extant historical and prevailing issues within nation-states.
Resource Curse challenges, including resource ownership/control regarding water rights, oil/land derivation policies and how community solutions could be engendered
Previous Theses
Undergraduate: ‘The Strategic Importance of Non - Bank Financial Institutions (NBFIs) in Economic Development’
Postgraduate: ‘Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in the Oil & Gas Industry within the Niger-River Delta Basin’
