Martine Visser, Grant Smith and Kerri Brick have been involved in a Behavioral project on Climate Change as part of a joint initiative by IDEA42 (a Harvard Based Behavioral Economics group and RUBEN
EfD researchers show that the Payments for Ecosystem Services program has no positive nor negative effects on people's income or jobs. And in the first three years of its implementation, the program
A child was killed by bees, and the fish did not survive. These were two sad outcomes of the investments in beehives and fishponds as alternative income sources for fishermen in marine protected areas
Martine Visser is part of an inter-disciplinary research group at UCT working on Climate Change and affiliated with the African Climate Development Initiative. We are currently studying the Berg River
Martine Visser and Jane Turpie advised the Legal Resource Centre and AWARD (NGOs working on behalf of the public and especially poor stakeholders such as farm workers) The advise pertained to an
ESKOM (national Energy Service Provider) has contracted Martine Visser, Grant Smith (masters student) and Steven Davies to do research on consumer understanding of billing practices. We conducted
In another ongoing project with Kerri Brick (PhD student) dealing with risk preferences and constraints to adaptation, as well as the role of micro financing and insurance amongst informal dwellers in
Martine Visser and Grant Smith (masters student) is also involved in a project with the Water Research Commission on water savings and billing practices where we are using various interventions
The third wave of the survey has just been completed by June this year and since then data capturing (of data from 2011 and 2012) has been ongoing. The dataset therefore still needs a lot of work and
Senior research fellow Jane Turpie presented a talk on the potential impacts of MPA expansion on commercial fisheries at the annual meeting of the Marine Protected Area Forum, a meeting of over 70