modelling

From silos to synergy: advancing policy action through water-energy-food nexus in Kenya

Feature / Using SEI’s WEAP and LEAP tools, researchers developed projections of water and energy demand and supply in the catchment through to 2030.

Collaboration with Iraq’s Water Ministry trains engineers in integrated water modelling

Feature / SEI trains Iraqi engineers in SWAT and WEAP tools to boost data-driven, climate-resilient water planning under the WICER project.

A new methodology to estimate the level of water stress (SDG 6.4.2) by season and by sub-basin avoiding the double counting of water resources

Journal article / This journal article details a method to assess water stress at the sub-basin level through developing a new feature for WEAP.

Q&A: How can Iraq improve water management and increase resilience?

Feature / As the WICER project comes to a close this month, SEI sanitation and water resource experts answer a few questions.

Accelerating progress on the SDGs: policy guidance from the global modeling literature

Journal article / This article reviews global SDG models, highlights policy gaps, and urges more integrated, standardized approaches to accelerate progress by 2030.

Predictability of cottonwood recruitment along a dynamic, regulated river

Journal article / This article investigates the use of different algorithms to predict cottonwood growth around river banks and its implications in river conservation.

Guiding riparian vegetation planting with machine learning

Journal article / This article studies the use of machine learning on predicting the growth and health of vegetation around riverbanks.

The missing link: how GEIC helps us understand the biodiversity impacts of consumption

Perspective / Trase highlights how the Global Environmental Impacts of Consumption (GEIC) indicator informs fairer, clearer and stronger policies to protect biodiversity.

Shifting Investment-Driven Consumption Emissions

Project / This project will inform targeted policy actions to reduce unsustainable investments and consumption-driven emissions, using the transport sector as case study.