EfD Kenya’s annual general meeting is a forum t hat bring s together all researchers and staff to discuss the challenges, opportunities, successes , and lessons learned over the past year and give the…
The Environment for Development, Kenya (EfD-Kenya) is an environmental economics research Center housed at the Department of Economics and Development Studies. The Center holds monthly seminar series…
The Department of Geography and Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is pleased to announce its student-led conference for PhD students and early career…
EfD Kenya arranges a policy day workshop every year with researchers, policymakers, and other stakeholders, to discuss research findings and their potential implications on environmental policies and…
A state of the art hybrid workshop, a massive presence in the media and the integration of the SETI collaborative were the highlights of the year. In 2021, the Environment for Development Initiative
Being mostly rural, Dar es Salaam has always been characterized by greenery and more recently by green space development. However, the values of these spaces are often not known. Note that these unknown values are common to sub-Saharan Africa. In order to make informed decisions in the management of these spaces, it is important that the values are assessed and documented. In this study, we do so by estimating the economic value of recreational parks in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Date of the event: March 17 through March 22, 2022 (Virtual event). Deadline for paper submission: January 31. The Latin American Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (LAERE) and the…
Based on a meta-analysis, this paper highlights the strength and relevance of several social incentive factors concerning pro-environmental behaviors, including social influence, network factors (like network size, network connection and leadership), trust in others, and trust in institutions. Firstly, our results suggest that social influence is necessary for the emergence of pro-environmental behaviors. More specifically, an internal social influence (i.e., motivating people to change their perceptions and attitudes) is essential to promote pro-environmental behaviors.