Publications related to EfD by Wisdom Akpalu
Wisdom Akpalu was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Environmental Economics and Policy in Africa (CEEPA) in University of Pretoria but has recently moved to the USA. Wisdom Akpalu has an extensive research interest within the broader area of natural resource management, health economics and experimental economics. His current research focuses on economics of illegal fishing, resource use-conflicts, invasive species and biodiversity management, common pool resource experiments, economics of self-medication, tenure insecurity and soil conservation, and agriculture and climate change in developing countries. His paper on “Individual Discount Rate and Regulatory Compliance in a Developing Country Fishery” was awarded the IIFET 2006 best student paper Prize.
Wisdom Akpalu was an EEU-Sida PhD scholar, and obtained his PhD in September 2006.
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- Internalized Contribution Norms and Learning in a Public Goods Experiment in Ghana Akpalu, W. and O. Johansson-Stenman ”Internalized Contribution Norms and Learning in a Public Goods Experiment in Ghana” Public Finance and Management 10(2), 352-378, 2010
- Can the restrictive harvest period policy conserve mopane worms in southern Africa? A bioeconomic modelling approach Akpalu, W., Muchapondwa, E. and P. Zikhali (2009). "Can the restrictive harvest period policy conserve mopane worms in Southern Africa? A bio-economic modeling approach". Environment and Development Economics, Volume 14, No. 5, pp 587-600.
- Enforcement of Exogenous Environmental Regulations, Social Disapproval, and Bribery Akpalu Wisdom, Håkan Eggert, and Godwin K. Vondolia (2009), "Enforcement of Exogenous Environmental Regulation, Social Disapproval, and Bribery" Journal of Socio-Economics 38(6), pp. 940-945.
EfD Discussion Papers
- Enforcement of Exogenous Environmental Regulations, Social Disapproval, and Bribery Akpalu, Wisdom, Håkan Eggert, and Godwin K. Vondolia (2009), "Enforcement of Exogenous Environmental Regulations, Social Disapproval, and Bribery", EfD Discussion Paper 09-19, Environment for Development Initiative and Resources for the Future, Washington DC, October 2009.
- The Bioeconomics of Conservation Agriculture and Soil Carbon Sequestration in Developing Countries Akpalu, Wisdom and Anders Ekbom(2010) "The Bioeconomics of Conservation Agriculture and Soil Carbon Sequestration in Developing Countries",Efd Discussion Paper 10-07, a joint publication of the Environment for Development Initiative and Resources for the Future (www.rff.org), Washington DC. March 2010.
Discussion Papers
- Bioeconomic model of spatial fishery management in developing countries Akpalu, Wisdom and Vondolia, Godwin K, 2011, "Bioeconomic model of spatial fishery management in developing countries", Working Papers in Economics 490, University of Gothenburg.
- Can the restrictive harvest period policy conserve mopane worms in Southern Africa? A bio-economic modelling approach Akpalu, W., Muchapondwa, E. and P. Zikhali (2007). "Can the restrictive harvest period policy conserve mopane worms in Southern Africa? A bio-economic modeling approach" ERSA Working Paper 65 (October)
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