Resolve land use trade-offs in a sustainable, equitable and rights-based way Archives

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NBS services promoting local biodiversity, wellbeing and scalable solutions (NBSPLUS)

Project / The NBSPLUS project aims to launch the concept of nature-based solution (NBS) services into practice.

2025 - 2027 / About Adaptation, Land use, Mitigation and Wellbeing

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Can conflict be planned away? A critical assessment of participatory land use planning in Swedish forest governance

Journal article / This paper critically analyses the Reindeer Husbandry Plan (Renbruksplan) in Sweden, evaluating its potential for resolving land use conflicts.

30 January 2025 / About Land use

Pursuing more equitable access to urban green spaces: engaging with social equity in urban planning in low- and middle-income countries

SEI report / This SEI report examines issues that must be addressed to foster community-led initiatives to plan, maintain, restore and expand urban nature spaces.

23 January 2025 / About Cities, Land use, Participation and Wellbeing

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LIFE: a metric for mapping the impact of land-cover change on global extinctions

Journal article / LIFE quantifies and maps the extinction risk impacts of land-cover changes, using data on over 30 000 vertebrate species.

9 January 2025 / About Forests and Land use

Multifunctional landscapes

One-SEI program / Finding synergies between otherwise competing land uses could reduce conflicts, prevent deforestation and biodiversity loss and support sustainable agriculture.

2025 - 2026 / About Bioeconomy, Food and agriculture, Forests and Land use

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Balancing energy security and a healthy environment

SEI brief / This policy brief introduces a fracking data platform, OBSERVAR, and calls for greater fracking regulation and transparency in Vaca Muerta, Argentina.

4 December 2024 / About Fossil fuels, Land use, Pollution, Public policy and Water resources

Smoke emanates from forested hillside in Cocora Valley, Colombia.

Understanding and overcoming policy (in)coherence to control deforestation in Colombia

SEI brief / This policy brief details how Colombia's efforts to reduce deforestation can conflict with other environmental policies and goals, such as the 2030 Agenda.

2 December 2024 / About Climate policy, Forests, Public policy and Sustainable Development Goals

New analysis: uncertain if the EU’s new due diligence rules help protect Sámi herding communities in Sweden from negative impacts of mining

Press release / A new SEI analysis shows that it's uncertain if EU’s due diligence rules will protect Sámi communities in Sweden from the negative effects of mining.

5 November 2024 / About Land use, Public policy, Renewables and Sustainable Development Goals

View of a mine from above in a snow covered landscape in northern Sweden at sunset

What do the EU’s new rules on corporate due diligence mean for Sámi rights and mining in Sweden?

SEI working paper / Learn how the new EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive could affect mining projects and Sámi rights in northern Sweden.

3 October 2024 / About Business and Land use