The Environmental Policy Research Unit (EPRU) at the School of Economics, University of Cape Town, is looking for a researcher to participate in a three year research project in ecosystem service…
The Competition Commission has urged the South African government to revisit the fishing rights allocation process in a way that will counter what it perceives as entrenched anti-competitive behaviour…
The newspaper Farmer’s Weekly reported on EfD South Africa research fellow Byela Tibesigwa's research findings on subsistence mixed farming strategy and climate change. Dr Tibesigwa's research work…
"This very readable book on Forest Tenure Reform in Asia and Africa looks at different countries’ strategies to use tenure innovations to manage forest resources. An especially interesting…
The value of shark tourism and similar ‘non-consumptive’ uses of sharks has long been used to build a case for conservation-based management of this marine resource. And yet the figures used to…
Kerri Brick, researcher with the Environmental Research Policy Unit (EPRU) at the University of Cape Town, has wrapped up her doctoral thesis, which uses behavioural economics to understand how people…
South Africa’s marine fisheries’ contribution to the country’s GDP is relatively small, but the economic implications of how these marine resources are managed has far-reaching effects for small…
Electric cars, and plug-in hybrids, could account for as much as 20% of the new car market in South Africa by 2030. But the uniqueness of the domestic car manufacturing industry, the sprawling nature…
Forest-dwelling communities in south-western Ethiopia, who have been organised into community cooperatives and allowed to harvest wild coffee, honey and other forest products, have benefited from the…
When some remote communities in Kenya can’t access the national grid, they build their own small scale hydro power projects to meet basic household electricity needs. But if people don’t work together…