ecosystems

The value of cooperation under climate change in Central Asia’s Syr Darya River: Using integrated water-energy-food-ecosystems nexus tools to inform policy

Other publication / Cooperation in the water-energy-food-ecosystems nexus among countries sharing the Syr Darya River Basin can improve local livelihoods.

WEAP training: summer 2023

Past event / SEI scientists will host a three-day training on WEAP, SEI's flagship water modelling software, on 12, 14 and 16 June 2023. Register today.

Application of watershed-scale habitat modeling and decision-support tools for reservoir reoperations in coastal northern California

Journal article / Researchers used a suite of tools to model human and aquatic habitat water needs in a California watershed and aid local water allocation policy.

Balancing aquatic habitat and human water supply in California: a Q&A with Doug Chalmers

Feature / Water managers must balance the needs of aquatic habitat and human supply. SEI Scientist Doug Chalmers explains a new approach to help resolve that tension.

Prescribed fire in UK heather-dominated blanket bog peatlands: a critical review of “Carbon storage and sequestration by habitat: a review of the evidence (second edition)” by Gregg et al., 2021

Journal article / This paper critically reviewed a UK government advisory agency's publication which aimed to synthesise evidence on prescribed fire for peatlands management.

Virtual reality shows how fracking affects Argentinian river basin

Media coverage / SEI's partnership with a university in Argentina allows people to explore the intersections of fracking and local water supply with virtual reality.

Unlocking SDG interlinkages through integrated governance for SDG6 in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta

Other publication / This brief highlights current governance challenges in the Mekong delta.

Final 10-year report to the project advisory group of Peatland-ES-UK

Other publication / This report presented a comprehensive picture of the first ten years of work in what is hoped will be a twenty-year study.

Peatland core domain sets: building consensus on what should be measured in research and monitoring

Journal article / Researchers conducted workshops and questionnaires with international experts to standardize and consolidate the data collection process in peatland research.