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More than 65% of the world's population are projected to live in urban areas by 2050, with major implications resource use, energy, water and sanitation, and health and well-being. At the same time urbanization can bring benefits, especially efficiency gains. SEI examines these challenges in the round to advance sustainable urbanization.
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Journal article / How resilience thinking can be translated into urban water practice to develop the conceptual understanding of transitions toward sustainability
Program / SEI's sanitation experts collaborate with NIRAS and WaterAid on a Sida-funded capacity development program for sustainable sanitation in cities.
Project / The AIR (Action for Interdisciplinary Air Pollution Research) Network uses a transdisciplinary method to address air pollution in informal settlements in Kenya.
Project / Towards healthy communities: Citizen science for improved air quality in Nairobi and Addis Ababa is a project addressing health problems from air pollution.
Project / This project brought together researchers to understand if more specific ‘greenspace dose’ recommendations can be made to improve health and wellbeing.
Project / Air quality drivers for sub-Saharan Africa (AQD-Nairobi) identifies drivers of exposure through measurements of air pollutants and air quality monitoring.
Project / Air pollution is a serious threat to the health of humans and ecosystems, yet is largely invisible and so out of the public consciousness.
Project / BONUS RETURN – reducing emissions by turning nutrients and carbon into benefits. The project focuses on turning waste into circular solutions for the Baltic Sea
Perspective / 2016 showed us that poor air quality is a scourge of the developed and developing world and that it requires immediate action.
