planning

Five lessons from past mining closures

Feature / Getting out of coal to reduce emissions is the order of the day but doing so is complicated. Here are five lessons from our research.

It’s time to look at climate risks and adaptation measures from a transnational perspective

Perspective / Climate risks do not always fit neatly into country boundaries. Niall O'Connor calls for climate policies that are more holistic and borderless.

Development of the Environmental Strategy and Action Plan of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Project / The ESAP 2030+ project supports the development of a Bosnia and Herzegovina country-wide environmental strategy and action plan.

The SEI Initiative on City Health and Wellbeing

SEI brief / This initiative investigates how rapidly growing cities affect residents' wellbeing and how this interacts with the overall health of city systems.

Women and transportation in East Africa

Project / This project explored linkages between sustainable urban planning, public transport, mobility, and gender in East Africa.

A typology framework for trade-offs in development and disaster risk reduction: a case study of Typhoon Haiyan recovery in Tacloban, Philippines

Journal article / This paper presents and tests a conceptual framework for analysing the trade-offs that underpin the relationship between development and disaster risk.

Housing and life experiences: making a home on a low income

Other publication / This is the UK first study to provide a detailed qualitative longitudinal analysis of the interaction between poverty and housing over lifetimes.

Stop calling it the housing ladder. For those on low incomes, it’s a treadmill

Media coverage / Guardian Op-Ed on how lack of affordable housing in the UK seriously affects people's lives

Local costs of conservation exceed those borne by the global majority

Journal article / Conservation planning tools and processes need to consider local costs as well as broader benefits.