Mr Samson Mukanjari

Research Associate
Name: Samson Mukanjari
College of Business and Economics  Staff Members

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About Mr Samson Mukanjari

Samson Mukanjari is currently a PhD candidate at the Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg. He is also affiliated to the Environment for Development center in South Africa, Environmental Policy Research Unit (EPRU), School of Economics, University of Cape Town as a Junior Research Fellow. Samson’s research interest is in the area of environmental and natural resource economics, with a focus on climate change and non-market valuation.

​Research Interest
​Environmental, natural resource and climate change economics.
​Education
Ph.D. Economics, University of Gothenburg September 2014 { present
MCom Economics, University of Cape Town 2011/06
BCom (Honours) Economics, University of Cape Town 2009/12
B.Sc. Economics, University of Zimbabwe 2007/08
​Academic Experience
Lecturer, Cape Peninsula University of Technology July 2012 { July 2014
Principles of Economics and Management Economics (undergraduate level).

Research Assistant, Environmental Economics Policy Research Unit, 2009 { 2014
University of Cape Town

Lecturer and Course Convenor, University of Cape Town January 2013 { June 2013
Economics for Non-Specialists (undergraduate level).

Teaching Assistant, University of Cape Town September 2009 { June 2011
Quantitative Methods and Econometrics (undergraduate and postgraduate level).
​Publications
​Refereed Journals
2013. Evaluating the prospects of benet sharing schemes in protecting mountain gorillas in central
Africa” with Birgit Bednar-Friedl, Edwin Muchapondwa, and Precious Zikhali. Natural Resource
Modeling, 26(4), 455 { 479.

Books
2014. Macroeconomics: Global and southern African perspectives. Olivier Blanchard & David R.
Johnson; Akoto, W., Alsemgeest, L., Bhoola, F., Biyase, M., Dikgang, J., Essop, H., Malikane,
C., May, C., Mokoka, T., Mukanjari, S., Rama, N., Serfontein, B., Theoduloz, T., and van Zyl, C.
Pearson, South Africa.

2013. The quest for gender equity through internationalisation strategies at higher education institu-
tions in the Western Cape, South Africa with Marko Kwaramba. In C. Sehoole, & J. Knight (Eds.),
Internationalisation of African Higher Education (pp. 53{72). Sense Publishers.
​Seminar and Conference Presentations
​2017 (incl. scheduled): University of Gothenburg Environmental Economics Seminar (February);
envecon 2017: Applied Environmental Economics 14th Annual Conference, London (March); Uni-
versity of Gothenburg 4th Annual PhD Conference (May); Eleventh Conference on The Economics
of Energy and Climate Change, Toulouse (June).

2016: Conference on Econometric Models of Climate Change, Aarhus (October); University of
Gothenburg Finance Seminar (December).

2009-2015: Environment for Development (EfD) National Park Pricing Policy Workshop, Kruger
National Park (South Africa); African Network for Internationalization of Education 2nd Annual
Conference Workshop, Uganda; Biodiversity Conservation Through Economic Incentives Workshop,
Kruger National Park.
​Other Activities
​2017. Visiting Fellow, Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School { January.
2016. Environmental Economics Guest Lecturer, University of Johannesburg { August.
​Professional Membership
​European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists.
​Additional Skills
​Computer: STATA, EVIEWS, PIM DEAsoft, NLOGIT, Microsoft Offce, R, LATEX and presenta-
tion software.