methodology

Co-productive agility and four collaborative pathways to sustainability transformations

Journal article / This paper by SEI's Jonathan Green explores how co-production processes can enable sustainability transformations.

Trading deforestation – why the legality of forest-risk commodities is insufficient

Journal article / Consumer countries and blocs are developing laws to tackle deforestation linked to commodity imports but they are insufficient to address this global issue.

The inequality-emissions link and what it means for the 1.5°C goal

SEI brief / This report highlights the methods used to calculate the chasm in carbon emissions between the world's richest and poorest populations.

Towards unravelling the ‘Black Box’ of peatland carbon: linking peatland habitat condition and management to water chemistry and quality

SEI report / SEI researchers and partners presented insights on the physical and chemical properties of peat relevant to management decisions on 'at source' drinking water.

Peatland-ES-UK: a long-term, deep and holistic look at climate and management impacts on grousemoor managed UK blanket bog peatlands – carbon, water, biodiversity

SEI report / SEI researchers and partners presented insights into blanket bog ecosystem functioning based on data from a peatland management project in Northern England.

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.

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.

Circular cities: an evidence map of research between 2010 and 2020

Journal article / An evidence map describes the literature published in the past decade on cities' circular economy strategies and focus.

Corporations and plastic pollution: Trends in reporting

Journal article / This analysis provides a starting point for a more nuanced consideration of the private sector's role in addressing plastic pollution and suggests priorities.