Pollution

A tale of two cities: inequalities in urban wellbeing in the Global South

Feature / City planning needs to consider livability and resident well-being alongside equality of environmental and economic development.

Low-cost interventions to reduce emissions and fuel consumption in open wood fires in rural communities

Journal article / This research explores how using grates and rock beds in open fire cooking can reduce harmful emissions and wood consumption in remote, low-income locations.

Just Enough Nitrogen: Perspectives on how to get there for regions with too much and too little nitrogen

Other publication / This book examines how sustainable nitrogen management can contribute to meeting many of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

In-use emissions from biomass and LPG stoves measured during a large, multi-year cookstove intervention study in rural India

Journal article / The study aimed to measure in-home emissions from a variety of stoves in rural Indian communities.

Forest, farms and fuelwood: Measuring changes in fuelwood collection and consumption behavior from a clean cooking intervention

Journal article / Researchers examined fuelwood use in two rural Indian districts where clean cooking solutions were implemented.

Low-cost interventions to reduce emissions and fuel consumption in open wood fires in rural communities: Evidence from field surveys

Journal article / Researchers measure the effectiveness of a grass-roots campaign in Western Kenya to increase cooking with rock-beds for open fires and simple woodstoves.

Using a co-created transdisciplinary approach to explore the complexity of air pollution in informal settlements

Journal article / Novel co-created transdisciplinary research uses arts and humanities methods to explore air pollution in an informal settlement (Mukuru) in Nairobi, Kenya.

Assessing inequalities in wellbeing at a neighbourhood scale in low-middle-income-country secondary cities and their implications for long-term livability

Journal article / This article describes a mixed methods approach to understand inequalities in urban wellbeing in two rapidly changing cities in Kenya and Thailand.

Jessica Slater helps BBC Scotland’s “Out of Doors” team consider their environmental impact

Media coverage / SEI's Jessica Slater helps Mark Stephen and Euan McIlwraith consider the environmental impact of lighting their firepit and cooking bacon each Saturday.