EfD Joint Report 2012/13
This report presents the Environment for Development Initiative (EfD), its members and work during 2012/13. For a free hardcopy, please send an email to: info@efdinitiative.org
EfD South Africa Center Report 2012/13
This report presents EfD South Africa, its members and work during 2012/13. For a free hardcopy, please send an email to: info@efdinitiative.org
The South African node of the Environment for Development initiative is based at:
Environmental-Economics Policy Research Unit (EPRU)
University of Cape Town
Cape Town, South Africa
The economic impacts of tourism in Botswana, Namibia and South Africa: Is poverty subsiding?
EfD Authors:
Tourism in southern Africa is based on the region’s wildlife and nature assets and is generally environmentally sustainable, but the extent to which it contributes to other aspects of sustainable development — overall income generation or poverty eradication — is less well explored.
70 million ZAR fund needed to address post-closure pollution from proposed mine
Within the unique wetland area Mpumalanga Lake District lies the site of a proposed, and controversial, opencast coal mine, the Lusthof colliery. It will require a preliminary ‘set-aside’ of about 70
Evaluating the Prospects of Benefit Sharing Schemes in Protecting Mountain Gorillas in Central Africa
Presently, the mountain gorilla in Rwanda, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo is endangered mainly by poaching and habitat loss. This paper sets out to investigate the possible resolution of poaching involving the local community by using benefit sharing schemes with local communities. Using a bioeconomic model, the paper demonstrates that the current revenue sharing scheme yields suboptimal conservation outcomes.
70 million ZAR fund needed to address post-closure pollution from proposed mine
Within the unique wetland area Mpumalanga Lake District in South Africa lies the site of a proposed, and controversial, opencast coal mine, the Lusthof colliery. It will require a preliminary ‘set…
