Prof. Opha Pauline Dube

Opha Pauline Dube: Prof. Dube is an Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Science at the University of Botswana. She holds a PhD from University of Queensland, Australia - 2000; an Mphil. Degree from Cranfield Institute of Technology, UK - 1989 and a BA degree from the University of Botswana (UB) 1985, with Geography and History as core subjects. In 2012 she held a 3 months Visiting Research Fellowship at the National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility (NCCARF), Griffith University, Australia. Her field of teaching, research and publications cover social and biophysical aspects of the environment and include applications of geo-spatial information technologies, land degradation/desertification, wild land fires, impacts of climate change, vulnerability and adaptation, sustainable development, gender and environment and environmental hazards and disasters. Pauline has been active in global environmental change research for more than 20 years, with a focus on Africa, initially through the International Geo-sphere Biosphere Programme (IGBP) and the Global Systems for Research and Training (START). She has been chair of the Botswana Global Environmental Change Committee (BGCC) since 2002, a committee she founded 1993. Recently she joined the IGBP and the International Human Dimensions Program (IHDP) collaborative synthesis activity on the concept of the Anthropocene.