Valuing pollination, water quality and urban green spaces The ESAfD project conducts empirical valuation studies regarding water purification services provided by forests, pollination services for

This 18-month project is part of a larger project titled “Inclusive Low-Carbon Transitions for Sustainable Development in the Global South" and started in October 2021. The objective of the

Long-standing arguments as to whether parks alleviate poverty or create poverty traps remain unresolved, as do the questions of whether development interventions to reduce human pressures on parks are

Cape Town has been facing the worst three-year drought in over a century. The situation has become dire as dam levels have dropped to unprecedented lows and households have been restricted to 50

The overall goal of this project it to evaluate whether different business models effectively scale up the distribution of affordable renewable lighting to the poorest of the poor in developing

The primary goal of this research project is to better understand the consumption patterns of different fuels in South Africa, and to identify the causal role of income in spurring household energy

This research project has the objective to compare the effect of three different approaches on communities’ cooperation behaviour in order to reduce illegal harvesting of wildlife resources. The

The objective of the project is to assess the economic ramifications of conservation activities in the Greater Addo region. This is the core of much Eastern Cape tourism as well as much of the

Research is required to determine the value of sustainable resource use, and its associated cultural and spiritual values to the Khomani San, linked to a reconnection with the land, and relative to