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.
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SEI brief / Four case studies are part of a larger study examining air pollution and workers' occupational exposures in southeast Asia.
Journal article / Researchers investigated migration in Namibia, with findings indicating that climate hazards could be driving people from rural to to peri-urban areas.
Feature / Water is a central research topic at SEI. This World Water Day, explore SEI's latest research and perspectives on water.
Media coverage / Perhaps counterintuitively, some fossil-based cooking fuels are better for climate and health than the biomass fuels used by 2.4 billion people, research shows.
Media coverage / This module covers policies to encourage circularity in production and consumption, and outlines the important role played by informal waste actors.
Perspective / This piece shares four steps to improve education and awareness campaigns to help change behaviour and reduce food waste.
Journal article / A novel analysis shows the global climate and health benefits of switching biomass cookstoves in low- and middle-income countries to electricity and LPG.
Press release / Expanding the use of LPG and/or grid electricity to replace biomass-fueled cooking in low- and middle-income countries benefits human health and climate.
Feature / A team of SEI experts published a report on the status of Green Public Procurement in the EU. Lead author Astrid Nilsson Lewis breaks down their findings.
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