Three new publications from SEI York

Assessing inequalities in wellbeing at a neighbourhood scale in low-middle-income-country secondary cities and their implications for long-term livability

What is required to deliver urban wellbeing in the global south? This paper helps to answer that question, using a novel interdisciplinary mixed methods study undertaken in two rapidly changing cities (one Thai and one Kenyan).

Cinderby, S., Archer, D., Mehta, V. K., Neale, C., Opiyo, R., Pateman, R. M., Muhoza, C., Adeline, C. and Tukhanen, H. (2021). Assessing Inequalities in Wellbeing at a Neighbourhood Scale in Low-Middle Income-Country Secondary Cities and Their Implications for Long-Term Livability. Frontiers in Sociology, 6. 729453.  https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2021.729453

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A tool in the toolkit: can true cost accounting remove siloed thinking about food loss and waste?

Efforts to decrease food loss and waste must engage with all stakeholders and all of their impacts. This report explores using method called True Cost Accounting to help overcome siloed thinking and support collaborative efforts to reduce food loss and waste throughout the whole food system. The executive summary is available now, with the full report due later this month.

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Trading deforestation - why the legality of forest-risk commodities is insufficient

Some consumer countries and blocs are developing laws to tackle deforestation linked to commodity imports. Using Brazil as an example, the authors show that measures that focus on legality alone are not sufficient to address global deforestation and may be undermined by dilution of local laws.

dos Reis, T. N. P., de Faria, V. G., Lopes, G. R., Sparovek, G., West, C., Rajão, R. G., Ferreira, M. N., Elvira, M. M. S. and do Valle, R. S. T. (2021). Trading deforestation - Why the legality of forest-risk commodities is insufficient. Environmental Research Letters. DOI: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac358d

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