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As people get richer, and ecosystem services scarcer, policy-relevant estimates of ecosystem value must rise

14 March 2024 | Peer Reviewed |

Abstract In many countries, catchment restoration is underfunded. This study aims to address whether household water pricing could be used as a mechanism for securing funds for catchment restoration…

5 February 2024 | Peer Reviewed | South Africa

Abstract There is competition for land between Maasai pastoralists and the park agency in the Serengeti ecosystem. The park agency wants to use the land for wildlife conservation while the pastoralist…

7 December 2023 | Peer Reviewed | South Africa, Tanzania

Abstract Global climatic changes are altering ecosystem structure and functioning, yet detecting and forecasting such change is difficult. In this study, we use the concept of a phytoclime—a region…

19 January 2024 | Peer Reviewed |

Abstract Sub-Saharan Africa’s urban ecosystem is under considerable pressure due to rapid urban sprawl and high direct dependency on the natural ecosystem. But the value of nature conservation or…

4 May 2023 | EfD Discussion Paper | Tanzania

AbstractWe investigate the behavioural responses of natural common-pool resource users to three policy interventions—sanctioned quotas, information provisioning, and a combination of both. We focus on…

2 March 2023 | Peer Reviewed | South Africa, Global Hub

The report provides a framework for ensuring that marine spatial planning (MSP) does not worsen poverty and gender inequality in developing countries and that potentially marginalised groups are...

22 February 2023 | Report | South Africa, Sweden, Kenya

We are living in a crisis era, with competing land use for finite land and ill-informed myopic urban land-use policies that remain stagnant, in a world with a rapidly changing urban environment, such…

9 December 2022 | EfD Discussion Paper | Tanzania

Abstract The water purification functions of forests represent one of the most frequently invoked examples of nonmarket ecosystem services that are economically valuable. This study quantifies the…

31 March 2022 | Peer Reviewed | China

Water quality amelioration is one of the key ecosystem services provided by forests in the catchment areas of water supply systems. In this study, we applied random effect models and the least…

2 February 2022 | Peer Reviewed | South Africa