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RISC-KIT (Resilience-Increasing Strategies for Coasts – toolKIT)

Fri, 08 Dec 2017 07:29:06 +0000

RISC-KIT developed methods, tools and management approaches to reduce risk and increase resilience to low-frequency, high-impact hydro-meteorological events in the coastal zone.

EPSRC Mood Mobility Place (MMP)

Thu, 10 Apr 2014 10:26:31 +0000

Mobility, Mood and Place explores how places can be designed collaboratively to make mobility easy, enjoyable and meaningful for older people.

Moors for the Future

Fri, 26 Jul 2013 07:19:27 +0000

SEI worked together with the Moors for the Future Partnership to design a Community Science Project in the Peak District National Park and surrounding areas.

Adaptation Without Borders – understanding the indirect impacts of climate change RCR03 TG10

Thu, 19 Mar 2015 13:47:41 +0000

This project aims to improve our understanding of indirect climate change effects, highlight adaptation interdependencies between countries, and begin to explore the implications for adaptation governance and decision-making.

Analysis of the First Cycle of Local Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA)

Tue, 25 Jun 2013 18:10:40 +0000

This project will review local HFA reports and related materials on disaster risk reduction and resilience work undertaken by city governments and their partners.

Risks of, and responses to, the new fossil fuel economy

Fri, 17 Apr 2015 21:07:48 +0000

This project will provide timely, authoritative, and pertinent analysis on the climate and other social and environmental risks of developing new fossil fuels supply and delivery infrastructure.

Orchestrating International Climate Policy (RCR01)

Tue, 25 Jun 2013 18:19:58 +0000

This project explores the potential role of the UNFCCC as orchestrator of actions initiated outside of its auspices in three key areas of international climate policy: climate finance, REDD+ and short-lived climate forcers.

National implementation of SAICM in developing countries – prospects for achieving sound chemicals management – TG11

Wed, 31 Oct 2012 10:10:56 +0000

The purpose of the project is to contribute to improved chemicals management in developing countries through advancing the knowledge on national level opportunities and challenges for governance for the sound management of chemicals.

Co-Motion: Co-design of the built environment for mobility in later life

Wed, 30 Aug 2017 13:11:47 +0000

The Co-Motion project, investigated the links between mobility and well-being among older people.

FP7 FLAGSHIP – Tulevikku suunatud analüüsid poliitikate kujundamiseks

Fri, 08 Dec 2017 11:11:19 +0000

Multifunctional wetlands and stakeholder engagement: Lessons from Sweden

Kim Andersson — Sun, 30 Dec 2012 23:00:00 +0000

This study, conducted within the EU-financed project Baltic COMPASS, seeks to draw lessons from Sweden’s wetland implementation and identify key enabling and disabling factors, especially in the governance system.

Varför multifunktionella våtmarker? En studie om våtmarksimplementering och aktörssamverkan i Sverige

Kim Andersson — Sun, 30 Dec 2012 23:00:00 +0000

The Common Agricultural Policy post-2013: a Pathway to Regional Cohesion?

Neil Powell; Rasmus Kløcker Larsen; Maria Osbeck; Marion Davis; Kim Andersson — Sun, 30 Dec 2012 23:00:00 +0000

This report evaluates the potential for reforms of the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) to support more effective agri-environmental measures and policy coordination across the Baltic Sea Region.

Understanding the vulnerability of migrants in Shanghai to typhoons

Frank Thomalla — Sun, 30 Dec 2012 23:00:00 +0000

This initial study analysed the perceptions and personal experiences of migrants living in Shanghai of typhoon hazards. Compared with non-migrants (long-term residents), migrant vulnerability to typhoons is considered high due to limited access to job opportunities, social security, information, and other resources; however, there is no research on vulnerability of this population sector to natural hazards.

Understanding the Paradoxes of Multilevel Governing: Climate Change Policy in the European Union

Harro van Asselt — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 23:00:00 +0000

Sanitation and Hygiene: Policy, Stated Beliefs and Actual Practice: A Case Study in the Burera District, Rwanda

Marianne Kjellén; Stacey Noel; Madeleine Fogde; Nelson Ekane — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 13:52:25 +0000

This case study compares policy and practice on sanitation and hygiene in Rwanda, where these issues are government priorities, and a range of guidelines and standards are prescribed for toilet technologies.

Doomed eco-toilet scheme was “valuable experience”

Fri, 21 Dec 2012 00:06:51 +0000

We look at key factors that led to the failure of a major sustainable-sanitation project in Erdos, China, and how it will inform future work in sanitation.

Communicating climate change: It’s about people

Marion Davis — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 02:48:16 +0000

Inspired by a discussion during COP18, SEI’s climate communications manager – a veteran journalist – reflects on the challenges of bringing complex policy issues to a human scale.

Scaling up carbon finance through CDM Programmes of Activities: challenges for low-income household energy projects in South Africa

Harro van Asselt — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 23:00:00 +0000

This article explores the potential for Programmes of Activities under the CDM to facilitate scaling-up of energy access projects, drawing on research on low-income household energy projects in South Africa.

Formas awards SEI three long-term research grants

Tom Gill — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 09:30:35 +0000

Three SEI researchers have been awarded long-term funding by the Swedish Research Council Formas to work on climate adaptation, palm-oil production, and social-ecological systems in the Amazon.