The Global Plastics Action Partnership (GPAP) is a major public-private partnership aimed at tackling global plastics pollution. It’s now is drawing on EfD expertise as it creates a roadmap for how to
In March 2021, the United Nations Statistical Commission took a major step toward moving beyond traditional measures of economic well-being by officially approving a framework for ecosystem accounting
Implications for Participatory Forest Management and Payments to Communities for Ecosystem Services
Plastic pollution in the ocean is a severe problem for Chile. Meet César Salazar, Associate Professor at Universidad del Bio-Bio, Chile, and a senior researcher at EfD Chile. He has been part of a
Most stated preference studies estimate discount rates using a split-sample approach. Each sample faces a different payment frequency (for instance, 1, 5, 10) together with a randomly assigned bid vector; both the frequency of payments and the bid are fixed for a specific individual. This paper evaluates whether allowing respondents to choose their preferred payment frequency affects the estimated discount rate.
Studies around Lake Victoria documented various challenges hindering higher landing prices among artisanal fishers associated with varying attributes of fish. However, determination of the effects of fish attributes on landing price, which is potential to the wellbeing of fishermen, remains undisclosed during the landing of the fish harvest to the landing sites. This paper employed cross-section data from 300 fishermen to examine the effects of fish attributes on fish prices of the selected fish species.
When it comes to securing Cape Town’s future water supply, clearing alien plants from within the key water catchments will bring a better return on investment than building desalination plants.
South Africa has been in the grip of one of the worst droughts in decades with eight provinces having been declared disaster areas (all provinces except for Gauteng). The news that Cape Town could be the first major city in the world to run out of drinking water made headlines across the world in the beginning of 2018. In 2016, the University of Cape Town (‘UCT’) in collaboration with the Water Research Commission (‘WRC’) and the City of Cape Town (‘CoCT’) concluded a large-scale study on the impact of nudging to motivate water conservation amongst residential households in Cape Town.
SiriusXM Business Radio Powered by The Wharton School recently had a segment on the Cape Town water crisis. Host Don Loney of the Knowledge@Wharton show discussed the current situation in Cape Town and what it tells us about the future of water in a changing climate with guests Carolyn Kousky of the Wharton Risk Center, Kevin Winter of the Unive