Jane K. Turpie

Dr Turpie has a background in ecology and has also worked and taught in the applied fields of conservation biology and resource economics for the past 30 years. As well as estuarine ecology and ornithology, her work includes quantification and valuation of ecosystem services, household livelihoods and pressures on natural resources, modelling socio-ecological systems, incentive and financing systems for conservation, integrated conservation and development planning, quantitative scenario analysis for integrated water resource management, and impact and adaptation studies relating to climate change and biodiversity. Jane is director of Anchor Environmental Consultants, a part-time Senior Research Fellow of the Environmental-Economics Policy Research Unit at the School of Economics, University of Cape Town, and an Honorary Research Fellow of the South African Institute of Aquatic Biodiversity. She has supervised 41 postgraduate students, published 58 peer-reviewed papers in ecology and economics disciplines, 14 book chapters, and numerous technical reports.