Investments in agricultural water management should complement or strengthen the livelihood and coping systems of the rural poor, and should thus be instrumental for breaking the poverty trap in…

Water resources are essential to human development processes and to achieve the Millennium Development Goals that seek, inter alia, to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, achieve universal literacy…

This article analyses the views of South African investment organizations about the likelihood of commodification of environmental risks in their investment decision-making processes. It is based on…

We investigate risk and ambiguity attitudes among Ethiopian farmers in one of the poorest regions of the world. Strong risk aversion and ambiguity aversion were found with the Ethiopian farmers. We…

This paper describes how management and information failures can retard transitions from the traditional use of biomass fuel by low income rural consumers and micro-producers. In general,societies…

As the biggest carbon emitter in the world, China is facing tremendous pressure domestically and internationally. To promote the international efforts to tackle climate change, the Chinese government…

This paper describes the development and rationale of a holistic and transparent approach for evaluating the ecological, social and economic trade-offs in water allocation in order to set the…

This paper uses empirical data on the crustacean and linefish fisheries to estimate the potential impacts of changes in freshwater flows on the industry, using a modelling approach.

The paper shows that unstructured lending from international credit markets can create incentives to loot the country; and an enhanced likelihood of looting causes greater political instability, and…

The paper gives guidance on the ways of reducing pollution in a township settlement. The average levels of PM10 pollutants in Khayelitsha, a poor informal settlement near Cape Town in South Africa…