Africa

Flags of UN line grass in front of UN building, Geneva, Switzerland

Human Rights Day 2021

Feature / Celebrate the United Nations Day of Human Rights 2021.

10 December 2021 / About Behaviour and choice, Climate policy and Sustainable lifestyles

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

Aerial view of sea bay with turquoise water and a small white beach. Beautiful lagoon and volcanic island covered with dense forest

Islands as spaces of innovation for marine biodiversity

Perspective / Read key insights on how innovating in Islands offers an opportunity to think beyond the established ways of organizing society and building cities.

8 December 2021 / About Business, Cities, Innovation and Water resources

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

Better data is necessary, but not sufficient, to enable sustainable trade

Other publication / Whether trade is "good" or "bad" for our societies and the environment has been a topic of ongoing debate. This brief is a simple overview of the costs.

17 November 2021 / About Ecosystems, Food and agriculture, Forests and Supply chains

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

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