methodology Archives

A practical approach to measuring the biodiversity impacts of land conversion

Journal article / This paper presents a global framework for quantifying the relative impacts of human activities on biodiversity.

29 May 2020 / About Ecosystems, Forests and Supply chains

Scenario processes for socio-environmental systems analysis of futures: A review of recent efforts and a salient research agenda for supporting decision making

Journal article / A review of the state of the art in research on scenarios, focused on socio-environmental systems analysis, modeling and decision-making.

19 May 2020

Strengths and weaknesses of the WHO urban air pollutant database

Journal article / This paper recommends improvements to the WHO's 2018 global ambient air quality database to enable better city comparisons.

25 April 2020 / About Cities, Pollution and Short lived climate pollutants

Spatially-explicit footprints of agricultural commodities: Mapping carbon emissions embodied in Brazil’s soy exports

Journal article / An enhanced approach to life cycle assessments of globally traded agricultural commodities that takes into account the specifics of individual supply chains.

7 May 2020 / About Climate services and Food and agriculture

Advancing the 2030 Agenda in African cities through knowledge co-production: Urban experiments led by early-career African scientists

Other publication / This report sheds light on what it takes to co-produce transdisciplinary knowledge on sustainable urban development in Africa.

7 May 2020 / About Cities and Sustainable Development Goals

Games as boundary objects: charting trade-offs in sustainable livestock transformation

Journal article / This paper describes an inclusive participatory approach engaging multi-stakeholders in decision-making processes in three African agri-food systems.

27 March 2020 / About Food and agriculture and Participation

Small-Scale Irrigation Mapping (SSIM) as a tool for improving and validating irrigated area maps: contextual approach and lessons learnt in Burkina Faso

Other publication / Supporting water management interventions with small-scale irrigation map using satellite data.

19 January 2019 / About Food and agriculture and Water resources

Understanding complexity in freshwater management: Practitioners’ perspectives in the Netherlands

Journal article / How are concepts of complexity interpreted and applied by practitioners in the case of freshwater management?

24 February 2020 / About Water resources