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Jane Turpie

Researcher at University of Cape Town

Publications -  75
Citations -  3989

Jane Turpie is an academic researcher from University of Cape Town. The author has contributed to research in topics: Ecosystem services & Population. The author has an hindex of 30, co-authored 71 publications receiving 3567 citations. Previous affiliations of Jane Turpie include South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity & Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology.

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The working for water programme Evolution of a payments for ecosystem services mechanism that addresses both poverty and ecosystem service delivery in South Africa

Jane Turpie, +2 more
- 01 May 2008 - 
TL;DR: A payments for ecosystem services (PES) system came about in South Africa with the establishment of the government-funded Working for Water (WfW) programme that cleared mountain catchments and riparian zones of invasive alien plants to restore natural fire regimes, the productive potential of land, biodiversity, and hydrological functioning as mentioned in this paper.
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Biogeography and the selection of priority areas for conservation of South African coastal fishes

Jane Turpie, +2 more
- 01 Jan 2000 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared different approaches to the selection of marine protected area sites for the conservation of South Africa's coastal fish diversity, and developed a pragmatic approach in which data are refined to include species' core distributions only.
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Economic value of terrestrial and marine biodiversity in the Cape Floristic Region: implications for defining effective and socially optimal conservation strategies

Jane Turpie, +2 more
- 01 Jul 2003 - 
TL;DR: The Cape Floristic Region is renowned for its beauty and floral diversity as well as other nature pursuits such as whale watching and angling, but invasion of aliens, transformation of natural vegetation and overexploitation of resources threaten the sustainability of this value.
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The existence value of biodiversity in South Africa: how interest, experience, knowledge, income and perceived level of threat influence local willingness to pay

Jane Turpie
- 01 Sep 2003 - 
TL;DR: This article investigated the public interest, experience and knowledge of biodiversity and used contingent valuation methods to estimate its existence value, with emphasis on the internationally significant fynbos biome in the Western Cape.
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Assessing, quantifying and valuing the ecosystem services of coastal lagoons

Alice Newton, +37 more
- 01 Jul 2018 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assessed, quantified and valued the ecosystem services of 32 coastal lagoons and found that the definitions of ecosystem services are still not generally accepted, and the quantification of ecosystem service is made in many different ways, using different units.