Americas

Solar lights being used in a Malawian flood refugee camp. - stock photo In mid January 2015, a three day period of excessive rain brought unprecedneted floods to the small poor African country of Malawi. It displaced nearly quarter of a million people, devastated 64,000 hectares of alnd, and killed several hundred people. This shot shows a solar lamps being charged in the refugee camp of Chiteskesa refugee camp, near Mulanje.

LOCACONS – Conflict Prevention and Low-Carbon Development

Project / Climate change and security, renewable energy and development -- LOCACONS looks at the unintended consequences of the intersection of these arenas.

2017 / About Mitigation and Renewables

Disentangling the pathways of land use impacts on the functional structure of fish assemblages in Amazon streams

Journal article / Multi-scale assessment of the biological condition of streams in the Amazon to date, examining functional responses of fish assemblages to land use

13 April 2017 / About Land use

SEI and Tufts celebrate a decade of collaboration with Nexus Symposium

Past event / To mark 10 years of a close research affiliation between Tufts and SEI, Tufts University Institute for the Environment and SEI-US will host a public seminar.

11 February 2017 / About Adaptation, Food and agriculture, Renewables and Water-energy-food nexus

Using carbon tax revenues to help attain climate goals: insights for Washington State from existing programs

SEI working paper / How to use revenues from a carbon tax to achieve climate and non-climate goals, based on insights from the State of Washington.

2 April 2017 / About Finance, Mitigation, Renewables and Transport

Aerial view of a lake surrounded by mountains

How governance affects participation: Insights from water resources planning projects in Colombia and Peru

SEI brief / This brief explores how the design of water resources governance systems in Colombia and Peru affect stakeholder participation.

19 March 2017 / About Adaptation and Participation

Mount Shasta against a blue sky, capped with small white clouds, overlooking a line of trees

Shasta River Water Allocation Model

Project / SEI is developing the Shasta River Water Allocation Model to help evaluate potential management actions in the watershed under the California Water Action Plan.

2017 / About Food and agriculture, Planning and modelling, Public policy and Water resources

Soil organic matter responses to anthropogenic forest disturbance and land use change in the eastern Brazilian Amazon

Journal article / Changing land-use and its influence on soil C and N stocks, soil organic matter physical fractions, and the origin of SOM in the Amazon

7 March 2017 / About Food and agriculture, Forests and Land use

Valuation of fish production services in river basins: a case study of the Columbia River

Journal article / A bio-economic model to assess the capacity of the Columbia River to provide four ecosystem services and an estimate of their use in terms of economic welfare

6 March 2017 / About Food and agriculture and Water resources

SEI Tallinn uuris õhukvaliteedi parandamise võimalusi hoonete ja transpordi sektoris

Feature / Õhu kvaliteet mõjutab oluliselt inimeste tervist ja kvaliteetselt elatud eluaastaid. Kuigi Eesti õhukvaliteet on üks paremaid Euroopas, põhjustavad ka siin lühiajalise kliimamõjuga õhusaasteained enneaegseid surmasid ja terviseprobleeme. SEI Tallinna eksperdid uurisid, kuidas saaks olukorda parandada alustades muutustega transpordi ja hoonete sektoris.

27 February 2017 / About Cities, Household energy and Short lived climate pollutants