Aliyu Salisu Barau
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Aliyu Salisu Barau is a Nigerian academic and a professor of Urban and Regional Planning at Bayero University Kano.[1] He served as the Dean of the Faculty of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Bayero University Kano from 2023 to 2025[2] and is the West Africa Hub Director of the Urban Climate Change Research Network (UCCRN), affiliated with the Earth Institute, Columbia University.[3] He is also a Chartered Town Planner of the UK's Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI).[4]
Aliyu Salisu Barau obtained Bachelor's degree in Geography in 1999, and a Master's degree in Land Resources in 2008, both from Bayero University Kano.[5] He bagged his doctorate degree from the University of Technology Malaysia (UTM) in 2015.[citation needed]
Career
- Dean, Faculty of Earth and Environmental Sciences/ Member of the University Management Committee/Member of the Senate. Bayero University Kano (Since March, 2023).[citation needed]
- Director West Africa Hub, Urban Climate Change Research Network (UCCRN) affiliated with Earth Institute, Columbia University, New York appointed 2020.[3]
- Founder and head of the Millennials and Resilience: City, Innovation and Transformation of Youths Laboratory, or the MR CITY Lab. An SDG Lab initially funded by Future Earth, Stockholm Resilience Centre and The University of Tokyo Integrated Research System for Sustainability Science (IR3s). MR CITY Lab aims to generate prototype solutions to complex sustainability problems.[6]
- Alternate Member, Multidisciplinary Experts Panel: Intergovernmental Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Science and Policy (IPBES) IPBES Secretariat Bonn Germany.[7]
- Member of the IPCC Scientific Steering Committee for the Cities and Climate Change International Scientific Conference. This is the first IPCC meeting on cities and climate change held in 2018 in Edmonton, Canada. The conference aims to feed into IPCC AR7 Special Report on Cities and Climate Change.[8]
- Commission Member: International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN's) World Commission on Protected Areas (with concurrent role in Climate change, Governance of Protected and Conserved Areas, Urban Conservation Strategies networks) – 2018–2021 reappointed 2021–2025.[citation needed]
- Environmental Advocacy for fostering conservation of culturally and historically important heritage sites such as the Kano City walls, open and green spaces including campaign against removing of old trees on Abuja-Kano Dual Carriage Way Rehabilitation project sites of Julius Berger Nigeria Plc for which the construction giant obliges positively.[9]
- 2013—Research Fellow, Earth System Governance Project (Future Earth). This is the world's largest social science research network in the area of governance and global environmental change.[10]
- Aliyu led development of some Apps available on Play Store namely BUKTrees.[11]
Public engagement
Aliyu Salisu Barau engages with the public through regular writing on multiple environmental issues in Nigeria and beyond especially in English and Hausa languages. He has featured several enlightenment programs monitored by the BBC,[12][13] DW, VOA, and local and regional radio and TV stations such as Freedom Radio, Arewa24 among others. He has co-produced short films for public environmental education and engagement science-policy-science community.[14] Aliyu is also widely reported by the top Nigerian newspapers on environment, climate, energy, SDGs, biodiversity conservation and land degradation.[15] Barau has a keen interest in using short films for public education and engagement for positive land climate action. He has co-produced three short films on drylands landscape restoration.[16][17][18]
