Participation

Three women wearing traditional dress and head coverings carrying wicker baskets on their backs with the woman in the centre also carrying a metal pot on top walking down a mountain path in the middle of rice paddies, North Viet Nam

Community agency and democratic resource conservation: Case of Baan Thung Yao forest community in Thailand

Perspective / Prioritizing stronger local community participation and gender-equal decision-making can ensure ecological and human dignity in forest conservation in Thailand.

28 January 2022 / About Adaptation, Behaviour and choice, Food and agriculture, Forests, Land use, Mitigation, Participation and Sustainable lifestyles

Town with factories and residential buildings with river and mountains in background under overcast sky, Brazil

The Bioeconomy–Biodiversity Nexus: Enhancing or Undermining Nature’s Contributions to People?

Journal article / The NCPs framework can help broaden synergies in the bioeconomy–biodiversity nexus, but inclusive governance remains critical.

24 January 2022 / About Bioeconomy, Climate services, Ecosystems and Participation

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Co-productive agility and four collaborative pathways to sustainability transformations

Journal article / This paper by SEI's Jonathan Green explores how co-production processes can enable sustainability transformations.

21 January 2022 / About Innovation and Participation

Man in red shirt riding motorcycle with crops on back on dirt road during daytime

How does adaptive collaborative management leverage changes in power: Insights from social theory

Other publication / The chapter looks at why power imbalances persist in community-based natural resource management and how an adaptive collaborative management approach can help.

5 January 2022 / About Forests, Participation and Sustainable Development Goals

A group photo of participants in the network standing outside Stockholm Environment Institute headquarters. They are from various international and Swedish regions and municipalities.

Building capacity for climate finance access through municipal partnerships in Africa and Sweden

Project / Together with UNCDF and ICLD, SEI is empowering African municipalities to access climate finance and build resilient communities.

2022 - 2025 / About Adaptation, Finance and Participation

A close-up of female hands holding a tablet and a tablet pen in the middle of green plants. The tablet shows a few graphs and numbers.

European Topic Centre on Sustainability Transitions (ETC ST)

Project / A consortium of thirteen European organisations supports the European Environment Agency in sustainability transitions.

2022 - 2026 / About Adaptation, Participation, Planning and modelling, Public policy, Sustainable Development Goals and Sustainable lifestyles

Car, bicycle and foot traffic coalesce amid a monsoon in the New Market area of Kolkata, India.

Operationalizing finance for loss and damage

Project / Vulnerable countries are already experiencing severe losses and damages from unavoidable climate change impacts. They urgently need financial support.

2022 - 2023 / About Climate policy, Disaster risk, Finance, Geopolitics, Participation and Public policy

Aerial view of Guanajuato, Mexico with white and orange-coloured colonial-era buildings, including churches, hotels and houses

Seizing the urban opportunity: how national governments can recover from Covid-19, secure shared prosperity and tackle the climate crisis through cities

Other publication / Cities provide critical venues to advance climate resiliency and decarbonize. We examine six economies and propose how cities can lead on climate action.

17 March 2021 / About Adaptation, Cities, Climate policy, Finance, Innovation, Participation, Public policy, Sustainable lifestyles and Transport

An African woman fills a large metal tub in front of her above another African woman's head using a water hose

Empowerment in water, sanitation and hygiene index

Journal article / A pilot study in Burkina Faso used the Empowerment in Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Index (EWI), a survey-based index designed to measure agency and more.

12 September 2020 / About Participation, Sanitation, Sustainable Development Goals and Water resources