UCT weekly newspaper The Monday Paper published the 13 September 2010 a profile on EfD-EPRU post-doctoral fellow Dr Stephanie Giamporcaro and her research on environmentally responsible investment:
Dr Stephanie Giamporcaro joined the Environmental Policy Research Unit (EPRU), part of the School of Economics, as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in March 2009. She hails from France, where she headed research into socially responsible investment at Novethic, a Paris-based centre, while pursuing her studies at the University of Paris V, Sorbonne, where she completed her PhD in sociology on responsible investment approaches in France in 2006.
In South Africa, her research keeps along the same tack as she investigates the implementation of environmentally responsible investment (ERI) approaches in the country. To this end, she's looking at how innovative finance tools such as socially responsible investment funds, greens funds or carbon funds are being implemented, it at all...Link to the full article: http://www.uct.ac.za/mondaypaper/?id=8233