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Tool / Resource Value Mapping (REVAMP) helps city planners estimate resources and reuse potential in a city's wastewater and their financial values.

About Cities, Finance and Sanitation

In the search for food security, how can African scientists make themselves heard?

Feature / Large parts of the Horn of Africa are in the midst of a drought and 15 million people are facing food and water shortages. In Kenya 1,3 million need food relief

16 February 2017 / About Adaptation, Food and agriculture and Public policy

Preterm birth associated with maternal fine particulate matter exposure: A global, regional and national assessment

Journal article / This article presents the first global assessment of the association between preterm births and exposure to ambient particulate matter (PM2.5) air pollution.

15 February 2017 / About Household energy and Pollution

Study links outdoor air pollution with 2.7 million preterm births per year

Feature / Results suggest that addressing major sources of fine particulate matter from diesel vehicles, to agricultural waste-burning, could save babies’ lives.

15 February 2017 / About Cities, Pollution, Short lived climate pollutants and Wellbeing

Older People’s Experiences of Mobility and Mood in an Urban Environment: A Mixed Methods Approach Using Electroencephalography (EEG) and Interviews

Journal article

13 February 2017 / About Cities and Wellbeing

What is so special about the water-energy-food nexus?

Perspective / Describing connections across policy domains is helpful, but the focus on water, energy and food is discretionary and limiting.

8 February 2017 / About Food and agriculture, Water resources and Water-energy-food nexus

To what extent are land resource managers preparing for high-end climate change in Scotland?

Journal article

6 February 2017 / About Adaptation and Land use

Broader, ubiquitous, ambiguous: What does mainstreaming adaptation mean, and when is it appropriate?

SEI brief

2 February 2017 / About Adaptation and Climate policy

Q&A: Åsa Gerger Swartling on leading capacity-building at SEI

Feature / Capacity development is crucial to enable stakeholders to fully engage in our research and analysis, benefit and learn from it, and take ownership of results.

2 February 2017 / About Participation and Public policy

Members of a fishing community in Cambodia

Both research for adaptation and research on adaptation are needed to inform society’s response to climate change impacts

SEI brief

1 February 2017 / About Adaptation

Are adaptations self-organized, autonomous, and harmonious? Assessing the social–ecological resilience literature

Journal article

31 January 2017 / About Adaptation and Ecosystems

SEI Executive Director Johan Kuylenstierna inks the MoU with Instituto Humboldt.

SEI strengthens ties with partner institutes in Sweden and Colombia

Feature / SEI signed memorandums of understanding with Lund University in Sweden and the Alexander von Humboldt Biological Resources Institute in Bogotá, Colombia.

31 January 2017

What does resilience mean for urban water services?

Journal article / How resilience thinking can be translated into urban water practice to develop the conceptual understanding of transitions toward sustainability

30 January 2017 / About Cities and Sanitation

Two fishermen put out a net to catch reef fish in Fumato’o, Malaita Province, Solomon Islands.

Analysis shows how climate finance to Pacific Islands varies across countries

Feature / In 2010–2014, a total of US$748 million in official development assistance focused on responding to climate change flowed to the 15 nations, mainly bilaterally.

30 January 2017 / About Adaptation, Finance and Mitigation

Final Obama administration analysis shows expanding oil supply increases CO2

Perspective / A Bureau of Ocean Energy Management report shows ceasing new Arctic and Gulf of Mexico drilling could decrease global CO2 by over 2 billion tonnes cumulatively.

30 January 2017 / About Fossil fuels, Mitigation and Public policy

SEI ranked as world’s most influential environment policy think tank

Feature / SEI is rated as the world’s most influential think tank on environmental policy issues in the University of Pennsylvania’s 2016 Global Go To Think Tanks Index.

26 January 2017

Two fishermen putting nets out in a small canoe-like boat

Climate finance in the Pacific: An overview of flows to the region’s Small Island Developing States

SEI working paper / Analysis of climate finance flows to Pacific Island states in 2010–2014 and recent data on flows from multilateral climate funds.

25 January 2017 / About Finance

Climate change and hydropower in the Southern African Power Pool and Zambezi River Basin: System-wide impacts and policy implications

Journal article

23 January 2017 / About Adaptation, Fossil fuels and Water-energy-food nexus

Habitat loss on Rondon’s marmoset potential distribution

Journal article / Habitat loss on Rondon’s marmoset potential distribution

23 January 2017 / About Forests and Land use

The politics of planning: assessing the impacts of mining on Sami lands

Journal article / What are the implications of undertaking community-based impact assessment in Sweden, where indigenous rights receive little recognition?

20 January 2017 / About Land use, Participation and Public policy

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