Cities

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.

REVAMP

Tool / Resource Value Mapping (REVAMP) helps city planners estimate resources and reuse potential in a city's wastewater and their financial values.

About Cities, Finance and Sanitation

Study links outdoor air pollution with 2.7 million preterm births per year

Feature / Results suggest that addressing major sources of fine particulate matter from diesel vehicles, to agricultural waste-burning, could save babies’ lives.

15 February 2017 / About Cities, Pollution, Short lived climate pollutants and Wellbeing

Older People’s Experiences of Mobility and Mood in an Urban Environment: A Mixed Methods Approach Using Electroencephalography (EEG) and Interviews

Journal article

13 February 2017 / About Cities and Wellbeing

What does resilience mean for urban water services?

Journal article / How resilience thinking can be translated into urban water practice to develop the conceptual understanding of transitions toward sustainability

30 January 2017 / About Cities and Sanitation

International training programme on sustainable urban water and sanitation

Program / SEI's sanitation experts collaborate with NIRAS and WaterAid on a Sida-funded capacity development program for sustainable sanitation in cities.

2017 - 2021 / About Cities, Sanitation and Sustainable Development Goals

The AIR Network

Project / The AIR (Action for Interdisciplinary Air Pollution Research) Network uses a transdisciplinary method to address air pollution in informal settlements in Kenya.

2017 - 2018 / About Cities, Pollution and Short lived climate pollutants