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On electricity tariffs and fossil fuel subsidies
With the rising costs of fossil fuels and fossil-fuel based electricity generation, disparities in electricity tariffs and persistently high fossil-fuel subsidies are coming under the spotlight. This...
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A waste water crises?
The existence of a waste water crises is denied despite mounting evidence of mismanagement and neglect in waste water treatment systems. Crises and denial has been a persistent theme in the last few...
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Five systemic challenges
In a recent panel discussion at the South African chapter of the World Future Society we discussed the top five systemic challenges facing South Africa. From the perspective of environmental...
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FIFA, soccer or country?
The World Cup is in full swing. Who gets the attention - FIFA, soccer itself or the country?Based on an Internet search volume index, Google Trends sheds some light:south...
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Crowd wisdom on who will win the FIFA World Cup 2010
What is the track record of crowds predicting the outcome of major events like the FIFA World Cup?This is what Lucker et al wrote in their article On the Forecast Accuracy of Sports Prediction...
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Green Jobs at micro level in Africa
As occasional guest blogger (after a bit of a break), I wish to share a few links I have come across recently about Green Jobs in Africa on a micro level, triggered by coming across this interesting...
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"Nelson Mandela's struggle for a garden on Robben Island" or "Why it makes...
It was not for nothing that Nelson Mandela fought for permission to grow a garden on Robben Island. In his words: “To plant a seed, watch it grow, to tend it and then harvest it, offered a simple but...
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The balancing act of sustainable waste management
The need for the sustainable management of waste is becoming more important with the opportunity to conserve materials, landfills competing for valuable land, and the health, environmental and...
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Some thoughts on Christian environmental ethics
The emerging ecological crises have brought a renewed focus on an ethics of the environment.An ethics of the environment and Protestant Christianity are often perceived to be at odds.An often-cited...
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The Roaring Augrabies
For a few days Augrabies Falls, or "the place of the Great Noise" in the Northern Cape, is becoming a place of "Great Thunder". The average volume of 313 cubic metres per secondis expected to increase...
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Quote of the day: On determinative and normative knowledge
"Sadly, while mankind's determinative knowledge has accumulated, itsnormative knowledge has been rather volatile." In: J.D.R. de Raadt. FAITH AND THE NORMATIVE FOUNDATION OFSYSTEMS SCIENCE. Systems...
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Responsible Tourism in Cape Town and the world
Guest-blogger, Gerhard Buttner, on responsible tourism in his original home city and web 2.0:After the rapid massive rise of international tourism in the 1990's, Cape Town is successfully positioning...
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Cape Town Tourism Responsibility and Sustainability
Following up from last week's post: During the 2011 Responsible Tourism Weeka contribution from City of Cape Town Director: Tourism Department Nombulelo Mkefa and Cape Town Tourism CEO Mariëtte du...
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Rising value of water rationale for restoring ecosystems
The scarcity of and rising value of water in South Africa supports the argument to view the restoration of ecosystems as an economically viable management option. Here the abstract of a recent economic...
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Quote of the day: On Scarcity and Oil Prices
"..if demand growth resumes in China and other countries at its previous rate, the date at which the scarcity rent will start to make an important contribution to the [oil] price, if not here already,...
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Risks and opportunities of a waste economy
Municipal waste economies. Are they practical and sustainable? Here a contribution to the debate as presented at a Waste in Business Seminar a few days ago.Abstract: Economic Risks and Opportunities of...
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Why are cities often ignored when promoting sustainable tourism?
I have often wondered why responsible / sustainable tourism products tend not to be in cities. Surely sustainability in tourism should be as important in cities as in rural areas? Responsible Tourism...
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Preparing for Crete: Ecological crises and ethics
The following commitment to present at a conference on ecology, theology and environmental ethics in June is coming closer...AbstractThe question how to approach practical, ‘messy’ problems where...
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What are your own expectations of a graduate economist?
Someone asked me this question and here is my response:A graduate economists need to be under the impression of their future role in society, the awe-inspiring diversity and complexity of reality and...
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A Cretan Commitment
What do economists have to say about the ecological and economic crises? I had the fortune to visit the beautiful island of Crete during the first week of June with a group of people thinking and...
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A New Economics Association
"The World Economics Association (WEA) was launched on May 16, 2011. Impetus comes from the embarrassment that is felt within the economics profession for its dismal showing regarding the Global...
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Creation order and hope as sources of ethical response to the crises?
The financial, economic and ecological crises calls for deeper reflection. Here the abstract of a presentation held in at a Christian Philosophy conference in Amsterdam last week: AbstractThe social...
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Quote of the day: On prediction
It is not that I am somehow against prediction. I think that if forty years of econometrics has revealed anything of value to us it is that you cannot very often make successful predictions of the sort...
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The African Environmental Economist
The African Environmental Economist, a new online daily provides a selection of news that would be of interest to those working in natural resources, energy and environmental sectors in Africa and...
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Oil depletion, oil prices and energy transitions
What is happening in the oil market has important effects on the world economy. This is not going to change in the immediate future. According to the IEA: “Global primary energy demand grows by 40%...
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