natural resources

UrbanCircle: turning urban waste into circular economy benefits

SEI brief / UrbanCircle uses the REVAMP tool to help cities identify the opportunities in their organic waste.

Boosting the bioeconomy in the Baltic Sea region

Feature / SEI Tallinn and partners kick off a project to build bioeconomy clusters in rural areas of the region.

Poison and profit: mining on traditional lands

Perspective / In the underground depths of northern Canada lies a monster. That’s how one local describes the 237,000 tons of arsenic left from an abandoned mining project.

Amidst social and environmental dynamics in Ilulissat, West Greenland

Perspective / Images of calving icebergs show the impacts of climate change in the Arctic. Rexsac researchers were in InIlulissat, in western Greenland.

Sustainable diets will remain a minefield until we change the way we approach food

Perspective / Are consumers aware of the full environmental impact their food has made throughout its production?

Global water governance and climate change: Identifying innovative arrangements for adaptive transformation

Journal article / This CADWAGO paper analyses nine water governance case studies to help illustrate some of the underlying perspectives in water governance.

The mining industry in a sustainable future

Project / Svemin, together with SEI, initiated a project to analyse the role of the mining and minerals industry in the shift towards a sustainable future.

Synthesis of multiple knowledge sources on the impacts of mining

Project / As mining in the Arctic increases, there is an urgent need to assess social and environmental impacts as well as mitigate negative impacts.

Moving ahead on gender-responsive planning and implementation of national biodiversity in Southeast Asia and the Pacific

Perspective / Gender-responsive planning can improve biodiversity outcomes in Southeast Asia and the Pacific