The Environment for Development initiative

The overall objective of the EfD initiative is to support poverty alleviation and sustainable development through the increased use of environmental economics in the policy making process. The EfD initiative is a capacity building program in environmental economics, focusing on research, policy advice, and teaching in Central America, China, Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa, and Tanzania.

Most recent publications

News

2009-06-06

Capital Newspaper Covers Conference

Capital newspaper covered the Conference on Sustainalbe Land Managment and Poverty Alleviation held [...]

2009-06-06

Ethiopian Television Interviews EfD

Dr Gunnar Kohlin and Dr Menale Kassie were interviewed by Ethiopian Television and thier interviews [...]

2009-05-29

EfD/EPRU a case profile of Social Responsiveness

EfD/EPRU has been distinguished one out of ten Social Responsiveness case profiles at the UCT [...]

Calendar

2009-06-15

ERC Call for Papers: Putting a price on Carbon

Respondents to this invitation are asked by no later than 27 July 2009 to submit an abstract of a [...]

2009-07-05

15th International Sustainable Development Research Conference 2009

EfD/EPRU Dr Stephanie Giamporcaro will present two papers at the 15th annual conference of the [...]

2009-07-05

EAERE-FEEM-VIU Summer School 2009

EAERE-FEEM-VIU European Summer School "Economics, Transport and Environment" 5-11 July 2009, [...]