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.

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SEI Initiative on Low Emission Development Pathways

Initiative / This initiative focuses on integrated analysis and planning for the mitigation of air pollution and greenhouse gases, including short-lived climate pollutants.

2015 - 2019 / About Cities, Climate policy, Food and agriculture, Fossil fuels, Household energy, Mitigation, Planning and modelling, Pollution, Renewables, Short lived climate pollutants and Transport

Peri-urban sanitation and water service provision: challenges and opportunities for developing countries

SEI report

10 March 2015 / About Cities and Sanitation

Access to Green Space in Disadvantaged Urban Communities: Evidence of Salutogenic Effects Based on Biomarker and Self-report Measures of Wellbeing

Journal article

13 January 2015 / About Cities and Wellbeing

EDUCEN “European Disasters in Urban centres”: a Culture Expert Network (3C – Cities, Cultures, Catastrophes)

Project / EDUCEN "European Disasters in Urban centres": a Culture Expert Network (3C – Cities, Cultures, Catastrophes).

2015 - 2017 / About Cities, Disaster risk and Land use

Citizen science and air pollution

Project / A project to assess levels of knowledge and people's understandings of air pollution and see whether this changes over time.

2015 / About Cities, Pollution, Short lived climate pollutants and Wellbeing

FRACTAL

Project / Future Resilience for African CiTies And Lands (FRACTAL) looks at climate processes driving southern Africa's climate variability and response to global change.

2015 - 2020 / About Adaptation, Cities, Climate policy and Mitigation

SEI Initiative on Sustainable Sanitation

Initiative / This initiative gathers SEI’s work in sustainable sanitation, bringing together research, capacity-building and policy support.

2015 - 2019 / About Cities, Land use, Planning and modelling, Sanitation and Water-energy-food nexus