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The impacts of and solutions to environmental change are never gender-neutral. SEI’s work explores the gender dimensions of vulnerability, and opportunities for women to play a greater role in shaping sustainable development.
Adaptation to climate change is a key area of SEI's research. In particular, we focus on adaptation policy and finance under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, vulnerability assessments, capacity building and community-based adaptation.
Perspective / This blog offers three practical recommendations drawing on insights from youth at the 2024 UN Women Gen-Forum.
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.
Feature / See how strategic urban interventions transformed Tallinn’s historic core into a lively and sustainable urban oasis for the community.
Our research recognizes that disaster risk and development are closely linked: it is development processes that largely determine who and what is exposed to risk as well how much, and how effectively they can respond. SEI works to integrate disaster risk reduction with equitable, sustainable and resilient development.
SEI working paper / The authors provide an overview of the socio-economic impacts and displacement outcomes on the informal settlement of Kihoto, Kenya, post-flooding.
How can we meet the nutritional needs and expectations of a growing world population? And how do we do it without compromising long-term sustainability? SEI research explores the transition to sustainable food and agricultural systems.
Past event / SEI York expert Howard Cambridge will share insights from the TRADITION project at the 30th Festa da Tainha in Balneário Barra do Sul, Brazil in July.
Around 2.4 billion people use biomass fuels – wood, charcoal and animal dung – for their domestic energy needs. These are typically burned in inefficient stoves or on open fires, with serious consequences for health and the environment. SEI identifies and designs actions to help households transition to cleaner technologies and energy sources.
Past event / The webinar is an overview of smart microgrids, technologies, business models and enabling policy environment for efficient energy systems in Africa.
Sustainable development has important consequences for lives and livelihoods. SEI research explores the conditions that support broad-based participation in development processes, particularly by disadvantaged, vulnerable and marginalized groups.
Past event / SEI York's Citizen Science Group ran a panel session exploring four related narratives at the Science in Public 2024 conference in Birmingham, UK.
Tackling climate change and pollution demands a rapid shift to renewable sources of energy. Our research, analysis and policy work looks at opportunities for driving the necessary transition to clean energy.
Perspective / Women must be integrated into the global climate finance architecture to help foster sustainable livelihoods and build climate resilience for all.
Building on a long legacy of pioneering work, SEI explores ways to provide equitable, universal access to hygiene and sanitation, with a focus on systems that offer multiple benefits in terms of health, environmental sustainability, livelihoods and food security.
Past event / Rachel Pateman shared methods and lessons from a co-created project to understand unhoused people's access to water, sanitation, and hygiene in Mexico City.
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