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Ecosystems clean water and air, regenerate soils, provide us with food and materials, and more. SEI works at the intersection between human needs and healthy ecosystems to protect human well-being over the long term.

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Resilience and management of Arctic wetlands

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Sunset over Serra da Canastra National Park, Minas Gerais

From the savannah to the supermarket – new study links consumption to specific biodiversity impacts in the Cerrado

A new paper describes a breakthrough in linking final consumption to localized biodiversity impacts in the Brazilian Cerrado.

Feature
Land
Economy
29 October 2019
Brazil

Kaempfer's woodpecker Celeus obrieni

Linking global drivers of agricultural trade to on-the-ground impacts on biodiversity

Calculating the biodiversity impact of soy production that can be attributed to consumers in different countries around the world.

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Land degradation worsening climate change and undermining well-being of billions

Feature
Economy
Water
Land
Climate
26 March 2018

A group of students standing happily with Ambassador Högberg

Sweden’s Ambassador to Vietnam discusses environmental challenges and solutions during Vietnam Water Week

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A unifying explanation for variation in ozone sensitivity among woody plants

Journal articles
Air
Land
27 December 2017
Europe

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

Perspective
Land
Gender
19 December 2017
Southeast Asia

Footpath of duckboards over a marshland

Resilience and management of Arctic wetlands

The sediment in the Mekong River enriches and replenishes the entire basin, and performs critical ecosystem services, and in turn supports the livelihoods of millions of people in the basin countries.

Case Study on Sediment in the Mekong River Basin: Current State and Future Trends

SEI reports
Land
Water
4 November 2017
Read in 70 minutes
Mekong

Eiffel Tower: Paris, France.

Second conference of the Collaboration for Environmental Evidence – calls for submissions now open

Feature
Land
Health
Governance
10 October 2017

On the road in Sweden

How are biodiversity and dispersal of species affected by the management of roadsides? A systematic map

Journal articles
Land
10 October 2017

Example of typical Peatland landscape in Scotland. Patrick Mackie via Wikimedia / CC-BY-SA-2.0

Impacts of tropospheric ozone exposure on peatland microbial consumers

Journal articles
Land
Air
29 August 2017

Bioclimate

Hierarchical bioclimate zonation to reference climate change across scales and its implications for nature conservation planning

Leaf

Better evidence, better decisions, better environment: emergent themes from the first environmental evidence conference

Journal articles
Land
31 May 2017

Lake in Sweden

Assessing the adaptive capacity of multi-level water governance: ecosystem services under climate change in Mälardalen region, Sweden

Village of Kulusuk.

How to build resilience in the Arctic

Feature
Climate
Land
9 May 2017
Arctic

Global adaptation

The importance of socio-ecological system dynamics in understanding adaptation to global change in the forestry sector

Dragonfly and frog

Bringing EU policy into line with the planetary boundaries