Land use

SDG interactions analysis in Zambia: climate action, one health and policy coherence

Project / SEI aids Irish Embassy in Lusaka, Sustainable Food Systems Ireland, and Self Help Africa transform Zambia's food system with focus on Climate Action, One Health

Prospects and challenges for policy convergence between the EU and China to address imported deforestation

Journal article / This study applies the ‘Brussels Effect’ theory to identify key factors facilitating and hindering policy convergence between the EU and China.

Timeseries partitioning of ecosystem respiration components in seasonal, non-tropical forests; comparing literature derived coefficients with evaluation at two contrasting UK forest sites

Journal article / Investigating individual components of carbon flows within ecosystems aids our understanding of carbon dioxide sinks and sources.

SEI’s Kløcker Larsen in The Guardian: developer contracts with Sámi reindeer herders “harmful”

Media coverage / The Guardian cites SEI's Rasmus Kløcker Larsen on a study about how developer contracts affect Sami reindeer herders in Sweden.

Negotiated agreements and Sámi reindeer herding in Sweden: evaluating outcomes

Journal article / In this paper, the authors offer an analysis of a selection of agreements involving Sami reindeer herders in Sweden.

Prospects and challenges for implementing land-based climate change mitigation in support of carbon dioxide removal in China

SEI working paper / Land-based mitigation technologies and practices (LMTs) have great potential in China; how does policy promote these practices despite challenges?

Assessing tropical deforestation in Germany’s agricultural commodity supply chains

Other publication / The German economy is linked to significant amounts of deforestation risk, but the majority of this risk results from just five key commodities.

The new “space race”: intensifying competition to control resources on land, of the ocean and in outer space

Perspective / Unprecedented pressure on the planet’s finite resources fuels a new race for space of all kinds. How will we manage the trade-offs and resulting conflicts?

Changes in evapotranspiration, transpiration and evaporation across natural and managed landscapes in the Amazon, Cerrado and Pantanal biomes

Journal article / In this study, the authors investigated how evaporation and transpiration vary within 3 Brazilian biomes for natural and managed land uses and land covers.