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Technical "solutions" for human health or the environment introduced through development interventions, such as clean cookstoves, often fail to take hold because people never truly embrace them. SEI explores individual and household behaviour to better understand how and why people take up new technologies.
380 results / 27 of 43 pages
Perspective / Now more than ever, we need an environmentalism that works through and for the poor and marginalized.
Journal article / Using Internet platforms to help parents ask questions they wanted answered by scientific research and to build their confidence in assessing research evidence.
Feature / SEI researchers explain the gender dimensions of their work, and how these uncover opportunities for better sustainable development.
Feature / Highlighting how pollution, in its various forms, disproportionately affects women and why policies to address pollution must consider gender.
Feature / Explore the results from our Initiative on Behaviour and Choice, including a toolkit for behaviour-based development interventions and examples of its use.
Other publication / This report unveils pivotal governance, management and profit reinvestment models used by fair trade enterprises that are already working across the world.
Feature / SEI research projects on adaptation provide crucial insights for organizations working to alleviate poverty and increase food security.
Perspective / Weather-index insurance can shield smallholder farmers from climate-related disasters, but it's mainly the wealthy who can afford it. How to change that?
Journal article / How important is communication in managing resources and complex social-ecological systems? Read the results from laboratory games designed to find out.
