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Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences
School of Agricultural and Food Sciences
Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development

Hassan, RM

BSc(Hons) MSc(Agric)(Sudan) PhD(Iowa State) - Professor

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Contact Details:

Telephone number: 012 420 3317
Fax number: 012 420 3247
E-mail address: rhassan@postino.up.ac.za

Research Interests:

Natural resource and environmental economics

Research Output:

Research articles in refereed specialist journals:

Blignaut CS, Hassan RM: 2002. Assessment of the performance and sustainability of mining sub-soil assets for economic development in South Africa. Ecological Economics, 40 (1) / Jan, pp 89-101.

Hassan RM: 2002. Measuring asset values and flow benefits of non-traded products and ecosystem services of forest and woodland resources in South Africa. Environment, Development and Sustainability, 4 (4), p. Forthcoming.

Hassan RM, Olbrich B, Crafford J: 2002. Measuring total economic benefits from water in plantation forestry: Application of quasi I-O framework to the Crocodile catchment in South Africa. Southern African Forestry Journal, 193 / Mar, pp 16-25.

Hassan RM, Olbrich B: 2002. Comment to the editor. Southern African Forestry Journal, 194 / Jul, p. 76.

Books:

Hassan RM: 2002. Accounting for stock and flow values of woody land resources: Methods and results from South Africa. The Centre for Environmental Economics and Policy in Africa (CEEPA), University of Pretoria, 144 pp.

Chapters in books:

Hassan RM: 2002. The status of woody resources and the environmental accounting framework. In Accounting for stock and flow values of woody land resources: Methods and results from South Africa, (1), Centre for Environmental Economics and Policy in Africa (CEEPA), pp 19-34.

Hassan RM: 2002. Cultivated forests: Missing from national income and wealth measures. In Accounting for stock and flow values of woody land resources: Methods and results from South Africa, (2), Centre for Environmental Economics and Policy in Africa (CEEPA), pp 35-52.

Shackleton CM, Hassan RM, de Wit M, Shackleton S, Beukman R: 2002. Natural woodlands and forests: Contributions to national income and economic welfare. In Accounting for stock and flow values of woody land resources: Methods and results from South Africa, (3), Centre for Environmental Economics and Policy in Africa (CEEPA), pp 53-72.

Turpie J, Heydenrych B, Hassan RM: 2002. Fynbos: A preliminary assessment of the status and economic value. In Accounting for stock and flow values of woody land resources: Methods and results from South Africa, (4), Centre for Environmental Economics and Policy in Africa (CEEPA), pp 73-116.

Lange G-M, Hassan RM: 2002. Synthesis and conclusions: The total economic value of woody land resources. In Accounting for stock and flow values of woody land resources: Methods and results from South Africa, (5), Centre for Environmental Economics and Policy in Africa (CEEPA), pp 117-124.

Papers in refereed, published conference proceedings:

Alene AD, Hassan RM, Demeke M: 2002. Resource use efficiency in maize production under traditional and improved technology in Westerh Ethiopia. In Proceedings of the Conference: Challenges to organic farming and sustainable land use in the tropics and sub-tropics, Centre for International Rural Development.

Research and technical/policy output for clients:

Poonyth D, Hassan RM, Kirsten JF: Technical Report: 2002. Impacts of climate change on agriculture in South Africa: Study report to the SEGA project. For: USAID.

Hassan RM, Blignaut CS: Technical Report: 2002. Policies and practices for financing sustainable development and environmental management in South Africa. For: World Bank and IMF.

 

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