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NOAH PAULINE

Senior Lecturer, Institute of Resource Assessment
Education:

PhD (Geography and Environment: Climate change adaptation) of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, (2015), MSc (Environmental Sciences), UDSM, (2006), BSc (Environmental Sciences and Management), SUA (2017)

Teaching:

Specialized areas of teaching

Climate Change Action, Environmental Assessment (Environmental Impact Assessment and Strategic Environmental Assessment), Natural Resources Management

Research:

Research interests

Climate Change Action, Environmental Assessment (Environmental Impact Assessment and Strategic Environmental Assessment), Natural Resources Management

Projects:

Research and Consultancy Projects Undertaken

  1. Team Leader: The Social and Environmental Safeguard for Sustainable Landscape Restoration (SLR) of the Great Ruaha and Lake Rukwa basins, Tanzania (2022)
  2. Team Member: Governing Adaptation Finance for Transformation (GAP): Tanzania and Kenya (2021-2026)
  3. Team Member: The role of rural-urban linkages for enhanced climate resilience in rural Tanzania (RUL4CLI) (2022-2027)
  4. Team Member: The Building Capacity to Crosslink Coastal Pollution with Climate Change (BC5) (2021-2025)
  5. Project: Environmental Risk Management Under Increasing Extremes and Uncertainty – MERIT (2021-2025)
  6. Team Member: Climate change and ecosystems management in Malawi and Tanzania (2021-2026)
  7. Team Member: Environmental and Social Safeguard – EBARR. Vice President’s Office (2021)
  8. Team Leader: PreparingBackground Studies for Development of Full GCF Funding Proposal (Baseline Study, Vulnerability Assessment, Feasibility Study, Gender Analysis and Economic and Financial Analysis Reports), for Kagera and Geita regions. FAO (2020)
  9. Team Leader: Baseline Study of Ecosystem-Based Adaptation for Rural Resilience in Tanzania. Vice President’s Office, Dodoma, Tanzania (2019)
  10. Team Leader: Mid-Term Evaluation: Fisheries Co-Management Project: Building Effective Long Term Fisheries Co-Management in Five Coastal Districts in Tanzania, and Promoting Coast-Wide Learning on the Same 2013-2017
  11. Team Member: Documenting & Communicating Background Information For A Climate Vulnerability Assessment In The RUMAKI Seascape, Tanzania
  12. Team member: Securing Small Holder Farm Production Against Climate Induced Risks In The Tanzania Breadbasket Area Of The Southern Highlands (2014-2016)
  13. Team member: Impacts of Climate Change on Water Resources and Agriculture - and Adaptation Strategies in Tanzania (2010-2015).
  14. Team Member: Dynamic Interactions among People, Livestock and Savanna Ecosystems under Climate Change (2007-2010)
  15. Team Member: Implementation of Private Sector Involvement in Forestry (2009)
  16. Team Member: Biodiversity and Development in East Africa and Indian (2007)
  17. Team Member: Assessment and Evaluation of Pilot Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs) in Tanzania.
  18. Team member: Public-Private Partnership to Secure Sustainable Water Resources Management in the Kilombero Basin (2015-2020)
  19. Team member: Documenting & Communicating Background Information For A Climate Vulnerability Assessment In The RUMAKI Seascape, Tanzania (2015)
  20. Team member: Resettlement Action Plan (RAP) for the Proposed Construction of 400 KV Transmission Line from Mbeya to Sumbawanga (340 Km) and Substations in Mbeya and Sumbawanga (2017)
  21. Team member: Socio-Economic Baseline Data for Project Affected People (PAP) and Resettlement Action Plan (RAP) for the Proposed 220kV Bulyanhulu – Geita Transmission Line (2015)
  22. Team member: Socio-Economic Baseline Data for Project Affected People (PAP) and Resettlement Action Plan (RAP) for the Proposed 400kV Namanga – Arusha – Singida Transmission Line (2015)

Publications:

Journal Articles

  1. *Rweyendela, A.G., Pauline, N.M. and Lema, G.A. (2023), "Exploring alternatives for a low-carbon future: cases of strategic environmental assessment from Tanzania", Technological Sustainability, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/TECHS-03-2023-0013
  2. *Pauline, N.M. (2023). Factors Influencing Farmers’ Choices of Responses to Climatic Stressors in Tanzania. Tanzania Journal of Engineering and Technology 42(1): 184-197
  3. *Pauline, N.M., Mbande, V., and Börjeson L. (2023). The scaling down of SAGCOT Public Private Partnerships: from large scale blueprint ideals to small scale pragmatism. The African Review Journal, 1-25
  4. *Rweyendela, A.G., Pauline, N.M. & Lema, G.A. (2023). Strategic environmental assessment for low-carbon development: A case study of oil and gas planning in Tanzania. Environmental Development 45 (2023) 100829. /doi.org/10.1016/j.envdev.2023.100829
  5. *Rweyendela, A.G., Pauline, N.M. & Lema, G.A. (2023): Strategic Environmental Assessment for Low-Carbon Development: A Review and Research Agenda. Environmental Assessment Policy and Management, doi.org/10.1142/S1464333222300012
  6. *Mligo, I, Misana S. and Pauline, N.M. (2022). The Effectiveness of Adaptation Strategies to Climate Change and Variability in Enhancing Rural Smallholder Farmers’ Food Security in Mvomero District, Tanzania. Journal of the Geographical Association of Tanzania, 42 (1): 45–63 https://doi.org/10.56279/jgat.v42i1.216
  7. *Rweyendela, A.G., Pauline, N.M. & Lema, G.A. (2022): Integrating low-carbon development issues into strategic environmental assessment: insights from Tanzania. Climate and Development, doi.org/10.1080/17565529.2022.2149253
  8. *Rogers, P.M, Yanda, P.Z, Pauline, N.M., Haikola, S., Hansson, A. and Fridahl, M. (2022). Effects of Biochar on Soil Fertility and Crop Yields: Experience from the Southern Highlands of Tanzania. Tanzania Journal of Science 48(2): 256-267
  9. *Rweyendela, A.G., Pauline, N.M. & Lema, G.A. (2022): Strategic environmental assessment for low-carbon development: developing an analysis framework, Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, DOI: 10.1080/09640568.2022.2074825
  10. *Venance, W.P. & Pauline, N.M. (2021). Assessment of Gender Roles in Climate Change Adaptation in Kisarawe, Tanzania. Journal of the Geographical Association of Tanzania, Vol. 41, No. 2: 41–58
  11. *Kulanga, S. G & Pauline, N. M. (2022). The Role of Agricultural Social Enterprise to Smallholder Farmers’ Adaptive Capacity to Climatic Stresses in Tanzania. Tanzania Journal of Science, 48(1), 109–123. https://doi.org/10.4314/tjs.v48i1.10
  12. *Rubekie, A.P., Pauline, N.M., Kaaya, L.T.  (2022): Coastal communities’ responses to climate change and variability impacts: a threat to coastal and marine resources?, Climate and Development, DOI: 10.1080/17565529.2021.2018984
  13. *Rogers, P.M., Fridahl, M., Yanda, P., Hansson, A., Pauline, N., Haikola, S. (2022) Socio-Economic Determinants for Biochar Deployment in the Southern Highlands of Tanzania. Energies, 15, 144. https://doi.org/10.3390/en15010144
  14. *Maliki, M.A., Pauline, N.M. (2022). Living and Responding to Climatic Stresses: Perspectives from Smallholder Farmers in Hanang’ District, Tanzania. Environmental Management, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-021-01588-2
  15. *Shaban, Y. and Pauline, N.M. (2022). Perceived Effective Adaptation Strategies against Climate Change Impacts: Perspectives of Maize Growers in the Southern Highlands of Tanzania. Environmental Management, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-021-01563-x.
  16. *Kibona, S.E,Pauline, N.M.and Hepelwa, A.S. (2021). Distribution of Adaptation Climate Finance in Africa Region. Tanzania Journal of Development Studies, 19(2) 132 – 147.
  17. *Nkumulwa, H.O. and Pauline, N.M. (2021). Role of Climate-Smart Agriculture in Enhancing Farmers’ Livelihoods and Sustainable Forest Management: A Case of Villages around Songe-Bokwa Forest, Kilindi District, Tanzania. Front. Sustain. Food Syst.  5:671419. doi: 10.3389/fsufs.2021.671419
  18. *Bakari, A.E. and Pauline, N.M. (2021). Trade-offs of Dolichos Lablab Production in the Context of the Changing Climate in Semi-arid Areas of Tanzania. Tanzania Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 19(2):188-202.
  19. *Hansson, A., Simon Haikola, H., Fridahll, M., Yanda, P., Mabhuye, E., Pauline, N.M. (2021). Biochar as multi‑purpose sustainable technology: experiences from projects in Tanzania. Environ Dev Sustain, 23:5182–5214.
  20. *Hansson, A., Fridahl, M., Haikola, S., Yanda, P., Pauline, N.M. and Mabhuye, E. (2020). Preconditions for bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) in sub-Saharan Africa: the case of Tanzania.Environ Dev Sustain, 22:6851–6875.
  21. Magesa, B.A. and Pauline, N.M. (2019). Responses of water insecure coastal communities of Tanzania to climate change impacts. Is it incremental or transformative adaptation? Climate and Development, 11 (9): 745-754.
  22. Magesa, B.A. and Pauline, N.M. (2018). Analysis of adaptation strategies of water insecure coastal communities of Tanzania by gender: Case of Mlingotini village in Bagamoyo district. Journal of the Geographical Association of Tanzania
  23. Pauline, N.M. and Grab, S. (2018). Whose knowledge matters in climate change adaptation? Perceived and measured rainfall trends during the last half century in south-western Tanzania. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography.39 (2): 266–280.
  24. Wassie, A.S. and Pauline, N.M. (2018). Evaluating Smallholder Farmers’ Preferences of Climate Smart Agricultural Practices in Tehuledere District, Northeastern Ethiopia. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography.39 (2) 300–316.
  25. Pauline, N.M. (2017). Understanding the Vulnerability of Crop Production to Climatic Stresses in the Great Ruaha River sub-Basin of Tanzania.Journal of the Geographical Association of Tanzania.Vol 38, No 1
  26. Tumbo, E.H. and Pauline, N.M. (2017). The Role of Community Based Adaptation in Response to Extreme Rainfall Events in Coastal Communities of Tanzania. Journal of the Geographical Association of Tanzania. Vol 38, No 1.
  27. Pauline, N.M., Vogel, C., Grab, S. and Liwenga, E.T. (2017). Smallholder farmers in the Great Ruaha River sub-Basin of Tanzania: coping or adapting to rainfall variability? Climate and Development. 9(3): 217–230.
  28. Kassim R. Mussa, Josephat A. Saria, Lughano J.M. Kusiluka, Noorali T. Jiwaji, Brown Gwambene, Noah M. Pauline, Nangware K. Msofe, Juma A. Tegeje, Innocent Messo, Sixbert  S. Mwanga (2015). Eliciting Smallholder Farmers’ Tradeoffs and Preferences on the Attributes of Climate Smart Agriculture in the Breadbasket Areas of Tanzania Using a Conjoint Experiment Method. International Journal of Environmental Protection and Policy. Vol. 3. No. 6, 2015, pp. 188-193.

Book Chapters

  1. *Temba, P., Pauline, N.M. and Ndaki, P. (2020). Living and Responding to Climate Variability and Change among Coffee and Banana Farmers in the Highlands of Moshi Rural District, Tanzania. In: Climate Change Impacts and Sustainability, Ecosystems of Tanzania. Yanda, P., Mung'ong'o, C. and Mabhuye, E. (Eds). CABI Climate Change Series.
  2. *Wassie, A.S. and Pauline, N.M. (2020). Effectiveness of Existing Climate Smart Agricultural Practices in Tehuledere District, Northeastern Ethiopia. In: Climate Change Impacts and Sustainability, Ecosystems of Tanzania. Yanda, P., Mung'ong'o, C. and Mabhuye, E. (Eds). CABI Climate Change Series.
  3. Roberts, H., Mjema, E., & Pauline, N. (2022). Tanzania's Maritime Heritage: A Climate Adaptation Priority: Summary for Policymakers.