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About EfD

To improve environmental policymaking in developing countries, RFF is working with the Environmental Economics Unit at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden to create national centers for environmental economic analysis in China, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa, and Tanzania.

The main activity of the new Environment for Development (EfD) centers will be international research collaboration. Policy instrument analysis, non-market valuation, and behavioral and experimental economics will be used to analyze land management, forestry, fisheries, wildlife, climate change, and environmental fiscal reform. The centers will also provide policy advice and training. Visit the official EfD website at www.efdinitiative.org.

RFF's role in the EfD program is two-fold: research fellows will work closely with their counterparts and communications staff will help to disseminate the new centers' research products.

The EfD initiative was partly inspired by RFF's history of helping to improve policymaking by applying rigorous, objective economic analysis to important environmental and natural resource policy issues. Updates about the EfD program, including new research projects and publications, will be made available at this page.

Financial support for the program is funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) and builds on Sida's Environmental Economics Capacity Building Program. For more information please contact:

Senior Fellow Allen Blackman (Bio)
Resources for the Future
Email: blackman@rff.org
Phone: 202-328-5073

Associate Professor Gunnar Köhlin (Bio)
Director of EfD Program, University of Gothenburg
Email: Gunnar.kohlin@economics.gu.se
Phone: 0046-31-773 4426

Professor Thomas Sterner (Bio)
Environmental Economics Unit (EEU), University of Gothenburg
Email:  Thomas.sterner@economics.gu.se
Phone: 0046-31-7731377


Environment for Development Centers:
Additional contact information for each center is available as a PDF.

China
Environmental Economics Program, Peking University

Dr. Jintao Xu, Coordinator
Email: xujt@pku.edu.cn
Phone: 86-10-62767629

Press Release (October 22, 2007)

Costa Rica
Environment for Development program for Central America, Centro Agronomico Tropical de Investigacion y Ensenanza (CATIE)
Dr. Francisco Alpízar, Coordinator
Email: falpizar@catie.ac.cr

Phone: 506-558-2215 /2624

Ethiopia
Environmental Economics Policy Forum for Ethiopia, Ethiopian Development Research Institute (EDRI/AAU)
Dr. Mahmud Yesuf, Coordinator

Email: mahmudyesuf@yahoo.com
Phone: +251-11-5538632

Kenya
Environment for Development Kenya, Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (KIPPRA)
Nairobi University
Dr. Wilfred Nyangena, Coordinator
Email: nyangena2001@yahoo.com
Phone: +254 20 316282

South Africa
Environmental Policy Research Unit, University of Cape Town
Dr. Edwin Muchapondwa, Coordinator
Email: emuchapondwa@commerce.uct.ac.za
Phone: +27-21-650 5242

Tanzania
Environment for Development Tanzania, University of Dar es Salaam
Dr. Razack Lokina, Coordinator
Email: razack_lokina@yahoo.co.uk

 
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