Publications

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

Towards unravelling the ‘Black Box’ of peatland carbon: linking peatland habitat condition and management to water chemistry and quality

SEI report / SEI researchers and partners presented insights on the physical and chemical properties of peat relevant to management decisions on 'at source' drinking water.

30 April 2021 / About Ecosystems, Land use and Water resources

Male red grouse peeps above heather, Whipperdale, North Yorkshire, UK

Peatland-ES-UK: a long-term, deep and holistic look at climate and management impacts on grousemoor managed UK blanket bog peatlands – carbon, water, biodiversity

SEI report / SEI researchers and partners presented insights into blanket bog ecosystem functioning based on data from a peatland management project in Northern England.

30 April 2021 / About Ecosystems and Land use

Green corn field under blue sky with white clouds

Just Enough Nitrogen: Perspectives on how to get there for regions with too much and too little nitrogen

Other publication / This book examines how sustainable nitrogen management can contribute to meeting many of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

9 November 2020 / About Ecosystems, Food and agriculture, Pollution and Short lived climate pollutants

Ecological and urban garden, Barcelona, Spain

Local2030 Coalition for the Decade of Action

SEI report / This report launches the Local2030 Coalition, a UN-led support platform and network to accelerate local-level action on the Sustainable Development Goals.

1 December 2021 / About 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

People walking on flooded street, Indonesia, April 2021

A Framework for Global Science in Support of Risk-informed Sustainable Development and Planetary Health

Other publication / The report explores more holistic and collaborative approaches to understanding and managing risks.

1 November 2021 / About Disaster risk

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

Human hands protecting the earth. Elements furnished by NASA

Bridging the knowledge gap between distance health and social care solutions and the environment

SEI brief / SEI applied two different kinds of tools to the question of putting health and social care services online to improve access.

1 October 2021 / About Cities and Sustainable Development Goals

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