Abstract Recreational opportunities and amenities are important human-use services generated by urban open spaces. However, empirical evidence on the magnitude of monetary values of these services is…

Introduction South Africa has the dubious distinction of having amongst the highest rates of unemployment and inequality in the world. It is also one of the most emissions-intensive economies…

Abstract This paper evaluates the impact of Zambia’s Farmer Input Support Programme (FISP) reform on the degree of crop diversification and crop rotation. The paper combines a rich two-wave panel of…

Abstract Energy has been called the “golden thread” that connects economic growth, social equity and environmental sustainability, but important knowledge gaps exist on the impacts of low- and middle…

Abstract The subjective well-being literature tends to assess the effects of social comparison on public services by downplaying the significance of asymmetric comparison effects. Moreover, the…

Recreational opportunities and amenities are important human-use services generated by urban open spaces. However, empirical evidences on the magnitude of monetary values of these services are hardly…

Abstract We calculate the first distributional statistics for municipal water use with 14.9 million monthly billing records for a half-million households in Cape Town, South Africa, from 2014 to 2018…

The study assesses the conservation and fisheries benefits of the Blue Bay Marine Park in Mauritius. It addresses the question - are the higher catch rates near the Park a result of population…

It is commonly asserted that the successful management of common property resources (CPR), and by extension, the provision of public goods such as biodiversity and carbon, requires the devolution of…

Implications for Participatory Forest Management and Payments to Communities for Ecosystem Services Communities living near Kenya’s forests place a monetary value on conservation. Mountain forests are…