local knowledge Archives

A man renovating the roof of a house standing on scaffolding.

Local leadership is the key missing ingredient in the UK’s retrofit revolution

Perspective / The UK should shift from national, top-down retrofit schemes to locally led delivery, explains SEI’s Luke Gooding in an Inside Housing op-ed.

4 February 2026 / About Household energy and Wellbeing

Communal sustainable development goals, belonging and involvement: engaging with the SDGs

Journal article / This study investigates how Indigenous Peoples and other Traditional Communities in Western Bahia, Brazil, understand and practice sustainability in daily life.

3 February 2026 / About Sustainable Development Goals

Contested borders of fire and reindeer

Journal article / Official reports of Swedish wildfire impacts are compared with Sámi reindeer herders' own perception and navigation of the events.

16 January 2026 / About Adaptation, Forests, Land use and Mitigation

Close up of hands holding a mobile phone, using it to take a photograph or video of two brown and orange butterflies on a round purple flower.

Increasing inclusivity in biological recording in the UK: progress to date and future priorities

Journal article / Eight UK organizations who run volunteer biological recording schemes gathered to evaluate their engagement and activities with underrepresented groups.

15 January 2026 / About Participation

Aerial view of houses at the water's edge, with boats on deep blue and aquamarine water, and green forest to the horizon.

“When will our voice be heard?” Voices from the Pacific

Feature / An event screening a documentary on climate change impacts on Pacific islands served as the basis for wider discussion about taking climate action worldwide.

22 December 2025 / About Climate policy

Frameworks and platforms can support inclusive and fair climate adaptation

Feature / At Adaptation Futures 2025, “Accelerating Adaptation into Action”, SEI researchers contributed expertise on climate finance, adaptation and co-production.

17 December 2025 / About Adaptation, Finance and Participation

Rows of glass lotion and other dispensers stand on a table with people in the background at a trade conference.

Specialty markets: rethinking value chains in the tropics

Perspective / Commodities are not always the answer. Specialties suit development based on livelihood and biodiversity conservation, as well as more sustainable consumption.

15 December 2025 / About Bioeconomy

Two women from La Guajira speak to three male researchers from SEI outside under gray skies with small buildings in the background.

Anajia Guajira

Tool / Anajia Guajira is a mapping and communication platform to foster a just transition to renewable energy in La Guajira, Colombia.

About Participation and Renewables

Advancing a research agenda on agroecology and degrowth: questions we need to ask

Perspective / SEI researchers call for integrating agroecology and degrowth to reshape knowledge, redistribute power and enable just food system change.

20 November 2025 / About Food and agriculture