Land use

Image shows a smoldering charcoal basin.

Project / This project examined the potential of a dual-pronged approach to developing technical and social alternatives to charcoal in Zambia.

2018 - 2020 / About Cities, Energy access, Household energy and Land use

Silhouette of the old cableway for transporting coal from mines in Longyearbyen, Svalbard. Midnight sun scenery with light clouds and mountains in background.

Mapping different forms of knowledge to understand the impacts of mining

Perspective / Neal Haddaway explains how frustrations with evidence synthesis led to new work combining indigenous and scientific knowledge.

10 October 2018 / About Fossil fuels, Land use, Pollution and Wellbeing

Photo - of a member of the Movement of Landless Rural Workers (MST), wearing a mask - Marcello Casal JR/ABr on Wikimedia CC3.

Brazil’s landless movement and rights ‘from below’

Journal article / This study considers how agrarian movements develop and apply their own rights discourses to further demands for social justice.

15 September 2018 / About Land use and Participation

Loading truck with bananas for transporting, near El Jardin Antioquia, Colombia, South America

Supporting SDG integration in Colombia

Project / SEI is partnering with the UN Environment Programme to support the implementation of the environmental aspects of the Sustainable Development Goals in Colombia.

2018 - 2020 / About Land use, Sustainable Development Goals and Water resources

What does the science say? A Q&A with Neal Haddaway on systematic reviews and systematic maps

Feature / Find out how systematic reviews and systematic maps can minimise bias in evidence synthesis.

21 September 2018 / About Land use and Public policy

IMARA

Project / The IMARA program aimed to increase the resilience of marginalized households to climate-change-related shocks.

2018 - 2025 / About Adaptation, Energy access, Household energy and Land use

Photo of Western Usambara Mountains, Tanzania -Photo David Ashby (CC2.0)

REDD+, hype, hope and disappointment: The dynamics of expectations in conservation and development pilot projects

Journal article / This paper explores the dynamics of expectations in international forest conservation and development programs.

1 September 2018 / About Adaptation, Forests, Land use and Mitigation

The multifunctional roles of vegetated strips around and within agricultural fields

Journal article / A systematic map of effects of field margins on nutrients, pollutants, socioeconomics, biodiversity, and soil retention in boreo-temperate systems.

7 June 2018 / About Food and agriculture and Land use

Unravelling past impacts of climate change and land management on historic peatland development using proxy-based reconstruction, monitoring data and process modelling

Journal article / Modelling moisture conditions to understand past climate-driven peatland development and carbon budgets together with likely management impacts.

8 May 2018 / About Ecosystems and Land use