Edwin Muchapondwa
Professor
Economics
University of Cape Town
South Africa
Biography
Edwin Muchapondwa is a Professor of Economics at the University of Cape Town and a Senior Research Fellow of the EfD in South Africa/the Environmental-Economics Policy Research Unit (EPRU). He is also a Guest Professor at Luleå University of Technology in Sweden. He is a former Director of both the School of Economics and EPRU at the University of Cape Town.
Research Interest
His current research deals with biodiversity conservation; community-based natural resource management; transboundary natural resources; nature-based tourism; valuation of non-market environmental amenities; and energy & climate change. He serves as a resource person for the Environmental Economics Capacity Building programme run by the Centre for Environmental Economics and Policy in Africa (CEEPA). He is the country representative for South Africa at the European Association for Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE). He has been a consultant to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the African Development Bank (AfDB).
Publications
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2016-10-24 SOUTH AFRICA Local communities’ valuation of environmental amenities around the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park in Southern Africa
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2017-05-15 Securing benefits for local communities from international visitors to the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park
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2017-07-03 SOUTH AFRICA A bioeconomic analysis of community wildlife conservation in Zimbabwe
