Publications related to EfD by Jane Turpie
Jane Turpie has a PhD in Behavioural Ecology (1994) and has worked and taught in the applied fields of Conservation Biology and Resource Economics for the past 16 years. Her interests and experience are broad, but tend to have in common her interest in getting to grips with the bigger picture, solving wide-scale and multidisciplinary, integrative problems.
Her resource economics research has concentrated on the valuation of natural resources, ecological-economic modelling, and incentives and policy analysis relating to biodiversity conservation and sustainable use of natural resources. She has carried out a number of contingent valuation, travel cost and resource use surveys. Her research has included economic aspects of protected areas in South Africa, nature-based tourism and tourism values of protected biodiversity, the economic value of coastal resources, the economic contribution of estuaries to South African fisheries, the economic value of fynbos ecosystems and implications of their invasion by alien vegetation, economic impacts of dams on subsistence communities, and the use, sustainability and economic values of wetland and woodland resources in communal lands throughout Southern and Eastern Africa.
She has co-developed ecological-economic models of a fynbos ecosystem, a savanna agro-ecosystem, and a major wetland system in Zambia, and used ecological-economic modelling to integrate multidisciplinary findings regarding conservation practices on commercial farmlands in South Africa. She has also co-developed a methodology for incorporating economic values of aquatic ecosystems in the decision-making process for determination of minimum flow requirements in South African catchment systems, and a model for economic assessment of the Working for Water Project.
Her current research interests include integrating economics into conservation planning, and economic incentive and financing mechanisms, including payments for ecosystem services. She has published 33 scientific papers and 6 book chapters and has written more than 100 technical reports.
Peer reviewed
- Development of the South African Water Resource Classification System (WRCS): a tool towards the sustainable, equitable and efficient use of water resources Dollar, E. S. J., Nicolson, C. R., Brown, C. A., Turpie, J. K., Joubert, A. R. Turton, A. R., Grobler, D. F., Pienaar, H. H., Ewart-Smith J. and Manyaka, S. M. 2010. Development of the South African Water Resource Classification System (WRCS): a tool towards the sustainable, equitable and efficient use of water resources in a developing country. Water Policy 12: 479–499.
- River flows and offshore crustacean fisheries in South Africa Turpie, J.K. & Lamberth, S.J. 2010. Characteristics and value of the Thukela Banks crustacean and linefish fisheries, and the potential impacts of changes in river flow. African Journal of Marine Science 32: 613–624.
EfD Discussion Papers
Books
- A protocol for the quantification and valuation of wetland ecosystem services. Turpie, J.K. & Kleynhans, M. 2009.“Development of a protocol for the valuation of wetlands in South Africa. Vol IV. A protocol for the quantification and valuation of wetland ecosystem services”. Wetland Health and Integrity Programme, Water Research Commission Report TT443/09, Pretoria. 74pp.
- The Wetland Livelihood Value Index: A tool for the assessment of the livelihood value of wetlands. Turpie, J.K. 2009, “Wetland Valuation. Vol III. The Wetland Livelihood Value Index: A tool for the assessment of the livelihood value of wetlands” Wetland Health and Integrity Programme, Water Research Commission Report TT442/09, Pretoria, 54pp.
- Case studies of the valuation of provisioning, regulating and cultural services provided by wetlands. Turpie, J.K. (ed) 2009, “Wetland Valuation. Vol II. The valuation of provisioning, regulating and cultural services provided by wetlands: case studies from South Africa and Lesotho”. Wetland Health and Integrity Programme, Water Research Commission Report TT441/09, Pretoria. 101pp
- Wetland ecosystem services and their valuation: a review of current understanding and practice Turpie, J.K., Lannas, K., Scovronick, N. & Louw, A. 2009, “Wetland Valuation Vol I. Wetland ecosystem services and their valuation: a review of current understanding and practice”. Wetland Health and Integrity Programme, Water Research Commission Report TT440/09, Pretoria. 115pp.
Policy briefs
- The livelihood value of Botswana’s Okavango delta Turpie, J.K, 2010,“The livelihood value of the natural resources of the Okavango Delta” Policy Paper Series, April 2010, Environmental Policy Research Unit, University of Cape Town, South Africa.
- Water quality amelioration value of wetlands Turpie, J.K.,2010, Water quality amelioration value of wetlands, policy paper, Environmental Policy Research Unit, University of Cape Town, South Africa.
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