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Abalone conservation in the presence of drug use and corruption: Implications for its management in South Africa

Author: Muchapondwa, Edwin; Brick, Kerri; Visser, Martine Date: 28 May 2015 The illegal exploitation of wild abalone in South Africa has been escalating since 1994, despite increased enforcement, leading to collapse in some sections of its range. South Africa banned all wild abalone fishing in 2008 but controversially ... Read more
Behavioural economic applications to climate change mitigation and adaptation: public good games and risk experiments

Author: Brick, Kerri Date: 2014 This thesis contributes to the economics of climate change by incorporating insights from behavioural economics. As both mitigation and adaptation are components of any climate change strategy, the four papers presented here use laboratory ... Read more
Contribution Norms in Heterogeneous Groups: A Climate Change Framing

Author: van der Hoven, Zoe; Visser, Martine; Brick, Kerri Date: 28 May 2015 While results from public good games with homogeneous players reflect the contribution norm of equal contributions, it is unclear what contribution norm will arise in a heterogeneous setting. Climate change is a perfect example of a social ... Read more
Economics of climate change: context and concepts related to mitigation

Author: Winkler, Harald ; Marquard, Andrew ; Tyler, Emily ; Visser, Martine ; Brick, Kerri Date: 2009 Climate change is increasingly seen as not only an environmental issue, but a deeply economic one. ‘Climate change presents a unique challenge for economics: it is the greatest and widest ranging market failure ever seen’ (Stern Review 2006). ... Read more c b
Fire prevention and risk aversion among informal urban dwellers in Cape Town

Author: Kanyinji, Rabson Date: 2015 This paper attempts to provide experimental evidence on fire prevention and risk aversion among urban informal settlers using lottery choice data with real monetary prizes. The paper estimates the risk attitudes of a sample of 174 individuals ... Read more
Green certificate trading

Author: Brick, Kerri ; Visser, Martine Date: 2009 This paper proceeds as follows: Section 2 briefly outlines the policy instruments available for the promotion of renewable energy sources, while section 3 discusses green certificate trading in more detail, including the green certificate ... Read more c b
Risk aversion: Experimental evidence from South African fishing communities

Author: Brick, Kerri; Visser, Martine; Burns, Justine Date: 28 May 2015 We estimate the risk attitudes of a large sample of individuals from various fishing communities along the west coast of South Africa. Female fishers and rights holders are found to be more risk averse than their male counterparts, while ... Read more

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