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2011-05-02 Park Pricing Workshop in Zimbabwe completed Optimal park pricing can help achieve sustainable park management in eastern and southern Africa. The EfD center in South Africa, EPRU, co-hosted the second park pricing workshop in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, from 28 to 29 April 2011, together with Department of Economics at the University of Zimbabwe. It focused on an increasingly important sector with major values at stake due to irreversibilities of some types of biodiversity loss.
2011-03-23 Reporting average electricity consumption makes households consume less Reporting to people about their own and the average consumption of electricity caused all kinds of households in suburbs of Cape Town to significantly reduce their electricity consumption. This is the conclusion of initial research results from EfD South Africa. Households in the middle income suburbs were the most responsive, followed by lower income suburbs. The upper income suburbs responded the least.
2011-01-30 Lowering household electricity consumption: a collaboration with the City of Cape Town Associate Professor Martine Visser and Grant Smith has been involved in an ongoing project involving the role of social norms in lowering household electricity consumption. This entails a natural field experiment where a subset of households across Cape Town from different income groups are provided with information about their relative consumption compared to that of the rest of the city and also their neighbourhood. In total 6310 households are included in the sample. The study has been done in close collaboration with different departments within the Municipality of Cape Town.
2010-03-09 Anchovy - from fishmeal to food for people South Africa´s anchovy catch is predominantly used for fishmeal, despite the fact that a redirection of the resource towards human consumption could provide nutrition for the rural poor, create employment in coastal regions, and develop new opportunities in the fisheries industry. EfD researchers are sought out by the Marine and Coastal Management, Department of Environmental Affairs, to participate in an inter-disciplinary investigation of the feasibility of utilizing a resource portion of anchovy landings for direct human consumption.
2010-01-01 Working together with South African National Parks (SANParks) The Environmental Policy Research Unit (EPRU) is working closely with local protected areas authorities, SANParks, in tackling the main difficulties in achieving a sustainable system of NPA.

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