environmental resource economics report and presentations

An environmental and resource economics conference, “Environment & Economy: Mind the Gap”, was held on 21 and 22 May 2009 in Cape Town – a C.A.P.E. event hosted by SANBI, with partnership and sponsorship from the Botanical Society of South Africa, DWAF, Working for Water, WWF, Table Mountain Fund, ASSET Research, Statistics South Africa, the Environmental Policy Research Unit (EPRU),the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and FETWater.

The conference covered environmental resource economics as it applies to natural resource management. This includes the economics of biodiversity conservation, water resource management (especially natural aquatic environments), agricultural resource management (especially natural landscapes), climate change and marine resource management.

Papers and presentations can be found below

Thursday
Plenary Session
Parallel Session 1
Parallel Session 2
Parallel Session 3
Parallel Session 4

Friday
Plenary Session 2
Plenary Session 3
Parallel Session 5
Parallel Session 6
Parallel Session 7

For a list of the speakers at the conference please click here

For the conference synthesis report click here