Opha Pauline Dube

Opha Pauline Dube (* 1960 ) is a Botswana environmental scientist. She is an Associate Professor at the University of Botswana .

Life

Dube received his PhD in geographic science from the University of Queensland . She was Vice-Chair of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Program (IGBP) for five years . At the University of Botswana, she founded the Botswana Global Environmental Change Committee .

Act

Dube's research enjoys worldwide recognition in science and focuses on the field of global environmental change in the context of the Anthropocene , in particular climate change . In her research, u. a. with resilience . She is one of the authors of the special report 1.5 ° C global warming by the IPCC .

Publications (selection)

• Frank Biermann , Xuemei Bai , Ninad Bondre , Wendy Broadgate , Chen-Tung Arthur Chen , Opha Pauline Dube, Jan Willem Erisman , Marion Glaser , Sandra van der Hel , Maria Carmen Lemos , Sybil Seitzinger , Karen C. Seton (2016). Down to earth: Contextualizing the Anthropocene. Global Environmental Change, 39, 341-350. doi: 10.1016 / j.gloenvcha.2015.11.004
• Yiheyis Taddele Maru , Mark Stafford Smith , Ashley Sparrow , Patricia F. Pinho and Opha Pauline Dube (2014). A linked vulnerability and resilience framework for adaptation pathways in remote disadvantaged communities. Global Environmental Change , 28, 337-350. doi: 10.1016 / j.gloenvcha.2013.12.007

credentials

1. ↑ ^{a b} IPCC Authors (beta) , List of IPCC authors on ipcc.ch (English)
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e} https://alumni.uq.edu.au/story/5888/professor-opha-pauline-dube