speakers at the conference

Environmental and Resource Economics Conference
21st and 22nd May 2009
The Ritz Hotel and Conference Centre, Sea Point, Cape Town


Key speakers at the conference:

• Carlos Manuel Rodriguez – Ex-environment minister for Costa Rica credited with setting up the country’s world leading Payments for Ecosystem Services system
  
Peter Berck - Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Berkeley

James Blignaut – Professor of Environmental Economics, University of Pretoria

Dolf de Groot - Associate Professor: Environmental Systems Analysis Group, Wageningen University

David Houghton – Director at Innovative Natural Resource Solutions, US

Jean-Christophe Carret - Senior Environmental Economist, The World Bank

Stein Holden - Professor in Development and Resource Economics, Norwegian University of Life Sciences

Jane Turpie - Percy FitzPatrick Institute (UCT) & Anchor Environmental Consultants


Martin de Wit – Associate Professor of Environmental Economics at the Sustainability Institute, University of Stellenbosch