ecosystems Archives

SEI's work on the Ocean and Biodiversity

Feature / Our Strategy for the Ocean and Biodiversity focuses on bridging science and policy within sources of marine pollution, coastal resilience and biodiversity loss.

28 September 2020 / About Adaptation, Bioeconomy, Cities, Climate policy, Disaster risk, Ecosystems, Finance, Land use, Public policy and Water resources

Climate change, crops and commodity traders: subnational trade analysis highlights differentiated risk exposure

Journal article / Assessing individual commodity trader exposure to long-term climate change risk. The case of Brazilian soy production.

15 September 2020 / About Ecosystems, Food and agriculture and Supply chains

Butterfly on a plant. Nick Windsor / Pixabay

DECIDE

Project / Delivering Enhanced Biodiversity Information with Adaptive Citizen Science and Intelligent Digital Engagements

2020 - 2022 / About Food and agriculture, Forests and Land use

Understanding the stickiness of commodity supply chains is key to improving their sustainability

Journal article / A novel methodological approach to inform deforestation policies and to assess potential effectiveness of supply chain zero-deforestation commitments.

24 July 2020 / About Food and agriculture, Forests and Supply chains

Acknowledging uncertainty in evolutionary reconstructions of ecological niches

Journal article / This article proposes a new framework for coding ecological niches and reconstructing their evolution

27 June 2020 / About Ecosystems

The crucial link between air pollution and biodiversity loss

Media coverage / Kevin Hicks explains how ammonia impacts the environment.

3 July 2020 / About Food and agriculture, Pollution and Transport

Restoration of heather-dominated blanket bog vegetation on grouse moors for biodiversity, carbon storage, greenhouse gas emissions and water regulation: comparing burning to alternative mowing and uncut management

Other publication / The study examined the evidence gap regarding alternatives to burn-rotation management of heather dominated UK blanket bog on carbon, water and biodiversity.

27 March 2020 / About Ecosystems, Land use and Water resources

Global Resource Initiative: Final recommendations report

Other publication / A proposed UK strategic approach to overcome the challenge of commodity-driven deforestation and land conversion in UK supply chains.

30 March 2020 / About Business, Ecosystems, Food and agriculture and Supply chains