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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.
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SEI working paper / Get our Cross-impact Balance analysis of what influences the adoption of improved cookstoves in Kenya.
Perspective / SEI researchers followed the adoption of solar mini-grids in rural Tanzania to understand their impact and sustainability.
Feature / SEI Asia recently spoke with renewable fuel leader Neste on responsible business and the SDGs at the Responsible Business Forum in Singapore.
Perspective / SEI has a role amidst economic inequality, climate change, mass migration, says Asia Director Niall O'Connor, reporting from the 8th Asia Think Tank Summit.
Feature / A research project on mango farming found that technological solutions are not always suitable – especially when they attempt to solve the wrong problem.
Feature / At the Asia Committee on Environment and Development, Måns Nilsson called for heightened action to meet the region's environmental challenges.
SEI report / This guidance note looks at applying a GSE lens in sustainable development research and how to integrate GSE when conducting research.
Past event / Policy-makers, business representatives and researchers gathered to connect the dots between sustainable lifestyles and a circular economy.
SEI brief / This brief calls for China's Belt and Road Initiative to embrace three characteristics: transparency, participation and commitment to international standards.









