natural resources Archives

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Building water resilience with communities in Kenya

Feature / SEI and partners helped to reduce risk to community-managed water systems to improve local people’s water security and economic opportunities.

21 August 2026 / About Water resources and Wellbeing

The power to define nature-based solutions: insights from coastal aquaculture communities in Cambodia

Perspective / This piece looks at the gap between policy labels and lived reality when livelihood practices are branded as nature-based solutions.

17 July 2026 / About Food and agriculture

Aerial View of Lake Tahoe Shoreline with Mountains and Turquoise Blue Waters

Untangling the complex web of water rights in the western US using SEI’s WEAP tool

Feature / This story explores how SEI's WEAP tool empowers planners and policymakers to build resilient and adaptable water systems across the drying western US.

15 July 2026 / About Climate policy, Planning and modelling and Water resources

A slippery slope? Gas developments and costly investments lock Colombia into a carbon-intensive path

Perspective / Calls in Colombia to increase gas production could set the country down an environmentally and financially perilous path despite cleaner energy alternatives.

24 April 2026 / About Climate policy, Energy access, Fossil fuels and Renewables

Indian woman collecting pure water from the well. Collecting and carrying water are women's responsibilities in India. Rajasthani women often walk long distances through the desert to bring back jugs of water that they carry on their heads.

World Water Day: SEI on the intersection of water management and gender equality

Collection / Explore SEI's content on how the global water crisis overlaps with gender issues on this World Water Day.

About Participation, Sanitation, Water resources and Water-energy-food nexus

Aerial view of the city of Tupiza, Bolivia, on a sunny day. Buildings line the Tupiza River, cutting through the middle of the foreground, with a bridge that runs across it. Mountains line the background and the sun shines in the blue sky.

Socially responsive water adaptation planning: lessons from community informed water modelling in Bolivia and Cambodia

Journal article / This journal article describes how community-informed water systems modelling has fostered more resilient, equitable water management in Cambodia and Bolivia.

11 February 2026 / About Planning and modelling and Water resources

Why nature data is becoming a business necessity

Perspective / Selorm Kugbega reflects on insights from Davos on why nature-based solutions must become core business investments.

10 February 2026 / About Food and agriculture, Land use and Planning and modelling

Women walking near a producing oil well near La Dorada village on a sunny day.

Inside the Atlas mapping oil and gas threats in the Amazon

Feature / After years of compiling data, a critical update arrived in December: a map of the Amazon that lays bare the real-time footprint of oil and gas expansion.

15 January 2026 / About Ecosystems, Forests, Fossil fuels, Water resources and Wellbeing

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SEI at AGU25 Annual Meeting

Past event / SEI US water researchers will share their latest findings and ongoing projects at the AGU25 Annual meeting 15–19 December in New Orleans, Louisiana.

15 December 2025 / About Adaptation, Food and agriculture, Planning and modelling, Water resources and Water-energy-food nexus