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Examining poverty and equality in water resources planning

SEI working paper / This paper describes the development of poverty-related indicators in SEI's Water Evaluation And Planning (WEAP) tool.

A philosophical justification for a novel analysis-supported, stakeholder-driven participatory process for water resources planning and decision making

Journal article / The authors explore early classical writing from Plato and Aristotle to find a new approach to water resource planning and decision-making.

Access to water is not equal. This framework can help

Feature / SEI researchers take a first step toward water analysis that considers inequality, by developing poverty-related indicators in WEAP.

Change story: Making the leap – better health through climate action

Feature / Short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs) can have a big impact on climate change. SEI’s new LEAP-IBC tool shows that cutting emissions also has health benefits.

Navigating the water-energy governance landscape and climate change adaptation strategies in the northern Patagonia region of Argentina

Journal article / This paper uses the Robust Decision Support (RDS) framework to examine the water resource challenges for a large basin in northern Patagonia, Argentina.

The future of hyperdiverse tropical ecosystems

Journal article / An international team warns that a failure to act quickly and decisively will risk unprecedented species loss in the most diverse parts of the planet.

Money from waste? Revamp your view on sanitation

Perspective / Resource recovery from sanitation and waste management can be a lucrative business. You can get it up and running in your city with support of the REVAMP tool.

Time is running out in the tropics – researchers warn of global biodiversity collapse

Press release / A global biodiversity collapse is imminent unless we take urgent, concerted action to reverse species loss in the tropics, according to a major study in Nature.

Trase Yearbook reveals how companies and consumer markets are linked to soy deforestation risk in Brazil

Feature / Using Trase transparency data, discover insights into how companies' and importers' sourcing of Brazilian soy could link them to deforestation.