Associate Professor Anthony Leiman

Designation: Associate Professor: School of Economics and the Environmental-Economics Policy Research Unit
Expertise: Environmental and resource economics; pollution and air quality, fisheries, mining

Biography:
Former Director of the EPRU Anthony Leiman’s research focuses on environmental and resource economics, cost-benefit analysis and related matters surrounding the informal sector, and the implications of natural gas and its extraction in South Africa. He is also currently and Associate Professor in the Economics department at UCT, and teaches in environmental and resource economics.

Climate change and Development link:
As part of the EPRU, Anthony is on a panel exploring the potential economic costs and benefits of mining shale gas (fracking) in the semi-desert Karoo region of South Africa. The CSIR has commissioned a series of studies into the potential impacts of fracking on tourism, agriculture, health, water, the natural environment, communities, and the transport sector, amongst others. Resource economist, Anthony Leiman is interested in economic implications of shale mining for these sectors, in order to inform decision makers by establishing the costs and benefits of fracking in the ‘broadest economic sense’.

Contact: Tony.Leiman@uct.ac.za