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Research Programmes (Economic Theme): Policy Implications of Climate Change

Climate change and Agriculture: What is the Role of Wildlife in adaptation in South Afr...

Climate change poses a serious problem to agriculture sector especi...

Jackson Otieno, Edwin Muchapondwa

Policy Brief

Estimating a Philipps Curve for South Africa: A Bounded Random Walk Approach

Introduction The Phillips curve depicts the relationship between cu...

Modeste Some, Eric Schaling, Alain Kabundi

Policy Brief

Confronting South Africa’s Water Challenge: A Decomposition Analysis of Water Intensity

Water resource intensity measures the intensity of water use in ter...

Marcel Kohler

Policy Brief

Structural Breaks in Renewable Energy in South Africa: A Bai & Perron Test Approach

South Africa has been struggling to cope with its energy demand. In...

Jaco P. Weideman, Roula Inglesi-Lotz

Working Paper

Comovement and the Financialization of Commodities

Commodity markets have experienced a surge in participation by fina...

Matteo Bonato, Luca Taschini

Policy Brief

Agriculture and adaptation to climate change: The role of wildlife ranching in South Af...

In this paper, we explored the role of wildlife in adaptation to cl...

Jackson Otieno, Edwin Muchapondwa

Working Paper

Climate, Technological Change and Economic Growth

This paper investigates the incentive for developing adaptation tec...

Paul Alagidede, George Adu

Policy Brief

An Economic Analysis of Climate Change and Wildlife Utilization on Private Land: Eviden...

Wildlife ranching is emerging as a new frontier for wildlife conser...

Edwin Muchapondwa, Jackson Otieno

Working Paper

Towards conserving the rhino: an economic analysis

Populations of southern white (Ceratotherium simmum simmum) and bla...

James N. Blignaut, Douglas J. Crookes

Policy Brief

The Economic Value of Mountain Biking in the Baviaanskloof Mega Reserve, Eastern Cape, ...

This paper reports the first formal non-market valuation of mountai...

Mario du Preez, Deborah E. Lee

Working Paper

Gender Differences in Climate Change Risk, Food Security and Adaptation: A Study of Rur...

Climate and weather variability in sub-Saharan Africa disproportion...

M. Collinson, Wayne Twine, Martine Visser, L. Hunter, Byela Tibesigwa

Working Paper

Vulnerability to climatic variability: An assessment of drought prevalence on water res...

The volatile changes in climate are increasingly becoming a threat ...

Nicholas Kilimani

Working Paper

Small-scale Subsistence Farming, Food Security, Climate Change and Adaptation in South ...

This study examines the role of gender of the head of household on ...

Martine Visser, Byela Tibesigwa

Working Paper

Debunking the myth that a legal trade will solve the rhino horn crisis: A system dynami...

There is considerable debate in the literature over whether or not ...

James N. Blignaut, Douglas J. Crookes

Working Paper

Determining Visitor Preferences for Rhinoceros Conservation Management at Private, Ecot...

South Africa harbours 95 percent of the world’s threatened white rh...

Mario du Preez, Deborah E. Lee

Working Paper

Mechanism between mining sector and economic growth in Zimbabwe, is it a resource curse?

The study investigates the role of mineral resources in economic de...

Nyasha Mahonye, Leonard Mandishara

Working Paper

A comparison of the values of water inflows into selected South African estuaries: the ...

Estuaries are open access public goods in the sense that it is diff...

Stephen G. Hosking, Johane Dikgang

Working Paper

The Impact of Announcing Future Punishment Opportunities in a Public Goods Game

We explore the effects of announcements of future punishment opport...

Alex Child, Wisdom Akpalu, Martine Visser, Jamil Moorad

Working Paper

Investigating the Sensitivity of Household Food Security to Agriculture-related Shocks ...

Resource-poor rural South Africa is characterised by high human den...

Wayne Twine, Martine Visser, Byela Tibesigwa

Working Paper

Climate change and economic growth in sub-Sahara Africa: A nonparametric evidence

Climate change has been classed as the greatest and urgent global i...

George Adu, Paul Alagidede

Working Paper

Timing a Hedge Decision: The Development of a Composite Technical Indicator for White M...

South African white maize is considered to be significantly more vo...

Chris van Heerden, Frans Dreyer, Susari Geldenhuys

Working Paper

Resistance to the Regulation of Common Resources in Rural Tunisia

We examine the effect of the introduction of uniform water-charging...

Timothy Swanson, Xiaoying Liu, Mare Sarr

Working Paper

An assessment of the performance of the Cameroon Water Corporation for the period 1967 ...

This paper assesses the performance of the Cameroon Water Corporati...

Saidou B. Oumar, Josue Mbonigaba

Working Paper

Climate, geography and African economic history

Africa’s ‘bad’ geographic and environmental features have long been...

ERSA

Workshop

Do the Poor Benefit from Devolution Policies? Evidences from Quantile Treatment Effect ...

Existing literature have rarely evaluated distributive effect of Jo...

Steven F. Koch, Edwin Muchapondwa, Dambala Gelo

Working Paper

Estimation of optimal conservation fees for international park visitors in the Kgalagad...

This paper estimates the visitation demand function for Kgalagadi T...

Johane Dikgang, Edwin Muchapondwa

Working Paper

The Economic Evaluation of Dryland Ecosystem Services in the South African Kgalagadi Ar...

The economic importance of the dryland ecosystem services in the Kg...

Johane Dikgang, Edwin Muchapondwa

Working Paper

The Economic Evaluation of Dryland Ecosystem Services in the South African Kgalagadi by...

This study seeks to value ecosystem services in the Kgalagadi area ...

Johane Dikgang, Edwin Muchapondwa

Working Paper

Dependence on Environmental Resources and Implications for Household Welfare: Evidence ...

This paper examines dependence on environmental resources and impac...

Gladman Thondhlana, Edwin Muchapondwa

Working Paper

Conservation Fees in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park between Botswana and South Africa...

This paper estimates the visitation demand function for Kgalagadi T...

Johane Dikgang, Edwin Muchapondwa

Working Paper

Managing Some Motorised Recreational Boating Challenges in South African Estuaries: A C...

Estuaries in South Africa face negative crowding effects with respe...

Stephen G. Hosking, Mario du Preez, Deborah E. Lee

Working Paper

Pricing of National Park Visits in Kenya: The Case of Lake Nakuru National Park

This study analyses the factors influencing pricing of National Par...

Peter Chacha, Edwin Muchapondwa, Daniel Abala, Anthony Wambugu

Working Paper

CO2 Emissions, Energy Consumption, Income and Foreign Trade: A South African Perspective

The effect of trade liberalisation on environmental conditions has ...

Marcel Kohler

Working Paper

Valuing User Preferences for Improvements in Public Nature Trails Around the Sundays Ri...

Many valuations have been made of changes to in-estuary attributes ...

Stephen G. Hosking, Mario du Preez, Deborah E. Lee

Working Paper

A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Concentrator Photovoltaic Technology Use in South Africa: A ...

The South African government currently faces the dual problems of c...

Eugene E. Van Dyk, Justin Beukes, Mario du Preez

Working Paper

Estimating the willingness to pay for the removal of a local undesirable land use: The ...

This paper examines the Nelson Mandela Bay public’s willingness to ...

Leann Cloete, Mario du Preez, Deborah E. Lee

Working Paper