Publications

Man sitting on his knee next to a wall, working with insulation

PROTOCOL: Residential energy efficiency interventions: an effectiveness systematic review

Journal article / The effectiveness systematic review assesses the overall impact of residential energy efficiency, including installations and behaviour interventions.

30 November 2021 / About Household energy

Black pot suspended over wood-burning fire

Low-cost interventions to reduce emissions and fuel consumption in open wood fires in rural communities

Journal article / This research explores how using grates and rock beds in open fire cooking can reduce harmful emissions and wood consumption in remote, low-income locations.

28 August 2020 / About Behaviour and choice, Energy access, Household energy, Pollution and Sustainable Development Goals

Person transporting tall stack of firewood by bicycle down mountain pass, Zomba, Malawi

Energy access and the ultra-poor: Do unconditional social cash transfers close the energy access gap in Malawi?

Journal article / This article explores the relationship between poverty and energy access in Malawi and whether unconditional social cash transfers help close the energy gap.

4 January 2021 / About Behaviour and choice, Energy access, Household energy, Public policy and Sustainable Development Goals

Large black pot on cookstove, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

In-use emissions from biomass and LPG stoves measured during a large, multi-year cookstove intervention study in rural India

Journal article / The study aimed to measure in-home emissions from a variety of stoves in rural Indian communities.

23 November 2020 / About Behaviour and choice, Household energy and Pollution

Forest, farms and fuelwood: Measuring changes in fuelwood collection and consumption behavior from a clean cooking intervention

Journal article / Researchers examined fuelwood use in two rural Indian districts where clean cooking solutions were implemented.

3 March 2021 / About Behaviour and choice, Forests, Household energy and Pollution

Low-cost interventions to reduce emissions and fuel consumption in open wood fires in rural communities: Evidence from field surveys

Journal article / Researchers measure the effectiveness of a grass-roots campaign in Western Kenya to increase cooking with rock-beds for open fires and simple woodstoves.

13 July 2021 / About Behaviour and choice, Household energy and Pollution

Passengers disembarking train onto green grass and mud with green hills and green trees in distances, Hsipaw, Myanmar, March 2018

Tinker, tailor or transform: Gender equality amidst social-ecological change

Journal article / This article explores how different social-ecological narratives implicate gender equality.

13 December 2021 / About Adaptation and Behaviour and choice

Man in hat, shirt and shorts walks across field watering row of plants with two watering cans are hanging from rod on shoulders

Role of environmental awareness in implementing farmland conservation measures

Journal article / Estonian farmers are more concerned about soil fertility issues than with wider environmental issues.

31 August 2021 / About Food and agriculture

Storm clouds over road between cornfields, Sun Prairie, WI, 2020

Climate emotions: it is ok to feel the way you do

Journal article / How does doing climate research affect the emotions of scientists? This article measures their personal responses to the climate crisis.

9 December 2021 / About Climate policy and Wellbeing

Lightning through clouds under purple-blue sky with orange sky in distance with more lightning over Jeffrey’s Bay, South Africa

Combining service design and discrete choice experiments for intervention design: An application to weather index insurance

Journal article / Learn how a new combination of methods can make development action more effective. This article describes the case of weather insurance in Uganda.

8 September 2021 / About Adaptation and Climate services

Using a co-created transdisciplinary approach to explore the complexity of air pollution in informal settlements

Journal article / Novel co-created transdisciplinary research uses arts and humanities methods to explore air pollution in an informal settlement (Mukuru) in Nairobi, Kenya.

19 November 2021 / About Cities, Pollution and Short lived climate pollutants

Europe’s cross-border trade, human security and financial connections: A climate risk perspective

Journal article / A large-scale literature and data review to explore the potential climate impact transmission pathways between the EU and other world regions.

23 November 2021 / About Adaptation, Climate policy, Geopolitics, Public policy and Supply chains

Water level of June Lake loop at Grant Lake in California appears particularly low due to drought conditions and low snowpack

Exploring the Water-Energy Nexus in California via an Integrative Modeling Approach

Journal article / This article discusses how different climate scenarios affect the water-energy nexus in California, employing the WEAP modelling tool.

29 September 2021 / About Adaptation, Planning and modelling, Public policy, Water resources and Water-energy-food nexus

Nyayo Gardens Park, Nakuru, Kenya provides shade and respite to workers and local residents

Assessing inequalities in wellbeing at a neighbourhood scale in low-middle-income-country secondary cities and their implications for long-term livability

Journal article / This article describes a mixed methods approach to understand inequalities in urban wellbeing in two rapidly changing cities in Kenya and Thailand.

10 November 2021 / About Cities, Participation, Pollution, Public policy and Wellbeing

Traffic light sign underwater, Davenport, Iowa, US

What we measure matters: The case of the missing development data in Sendai framework for disaster risk reduction monitoring

Journal article / This article is an exploratory mapping exercise of and a collective reflection on the SDGs and Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction indicators.

19 November 2021 / About Disaster risk