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 report / Policymakers should consider socio-economic and sociopolitical dimensions that mediate air pollution impacts, such as gender and how it intersects with factors.
Other publication / Public purchasing choices can drive the market for green products and services. G20 countries can lead the way in decarbonizing emissions-intensive sectors.
Media coverage / SEI Research Fellow Daniel Duma talks to Nature about surging oil and gas profits while countries fail to invest in carbon-cutting pledges.
Feature / SEI Tallinn organized a training week for young people, offering guidance on continuing their education and finding employment in the green economy.
Other publication / This thesis contributes new knowledge about how service design can be used to design development interventions in complex social-ecological contexts.
Media coverage / Senior Scientist Derik Broekhoff spoke to the climate news outlet Heatmap on the tension between carbon removals and emissions in the voluntary carbon market.
Perspective / This perspective explores the environmental attitudes of Bosnia and Herzegovina citizens and considers ways to increase environmental awareness going forward.
Media coverage / The Biden Administration disappointed climate activists by approving the Willow oil and gas project in Alaska. But that isn't the half of it.
SEI working paper / This essay provides a history of "poverty thinking" and development and positions current approaches and understandings against this historical background.
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