SEI York Publications 2020
Publications by SEI York centre staff are listed here. For the full list of SEI Publications please visit the SEI website.
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This article introduces the first issue of Cities & Health volume 4. It covers topics such as urban density, active travel and climate change adaptation.
Grant, M., McCunn, L., Ahmad, S., Goodman, A., Creutzig, F., Woodcock, J., Tainio, M., Holmes, T., Eisenman, D., Warwick-Booth, L., Coan, S., Bagnall, A.-M., Neale, C., Aspinall, P., Roe, J., Tilley, S., Mavros, P., Cinderby, S., Coyne, R., … Fleming, P. (2020). Research for city practice. Cities & Health, 4(1), 2–12. http://doi.org/10.1080/23748834.2020.1741922
This paper evaluates the impact of Zero Deforestation Commitments (ZDCs) on supply chains using Brazilian soy sector as an example.
zu Ermgassen, E. K. H. J., Ayre, B., Godar, J., Bastos Lima, M. G., Bauch, S., Garrett, R., Green, J., Lathuillière, M. J., Löfgren, P., MacFarquhar, C., Meyfroidt, P., Suavet, C., West, C. and Gardner, T. (2019)
Based on a recent study of Fair Trade Enterprises, this report unveils pivotal governance, management and profit reinvestment models that are already working across the world. It challenges leaders gathering at Davos, in January 2020, to foster business models that put people and planet first.
Doherty, R., Haugh, H., Sahan, E., Wills, T., and Croft, S. (2020)
Land-use change is a direct driver of biodiversity and carbon storage loss. Projections of future land-use often include notable expansion of cropland areas in response to changes in climate and food demand, although there are large uncertainties in results between models and scenarios.
Molotoks, A., Henry, R., Stehfest, E., Doelman, J., Havlik, P., Krisztin, T., Alexander, P., Dawson, T.P., and Smith, P. (2020)
This study, derives a national-level emission inventory for Nepal including short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs), CO2, and other air pollutants, and projects their impacts under different scenarios.
Nakarmi, A.M., Sharma, B., Rajbhandari, U.S., Prajapati, A., Malley, C.S., Kuylensiterna, J.C.I., Vallack, H.W., Henze, D.K., and Panday, A.
As a globally consumed agricultural product, soybeans have long been one of the most important commodities in the current international market. In this regard, the governance of the global soybean supply chain has become one of the central themes in both industry and academia. However, existing scholarly works focusing on sustainability issues and mechanisms for better governance in the soybean chain are rare. Moreover, the relationship among soybean supply chain governance mechanisms remains unclear.
In this study, a systematic review of the existing literature is conducted in order to identify key themes or topics, and from which, a conceptual framework to guide future research is developed.
Jia, F., Peng, S., Green, J., Koh, L. and Chen, X. (2020)
Ecosystems have been stabilized by human interventions to optimize delivery of certain ecosystem services, while at the same time awareness has grown that these systems are inherently dynamic rather than steady state. Applied research fields have emerged that try to increase adaptive capacity in these ecosystems, using concepts deriving from the theory of complex adaptive systems. How are these concepts of complexity interpreted and applied by practitioners?
Rutten, G., Cinderby, S. and Barron, J. (2020)
This paper presents the results of a novel project where parents of young children used Internet platforms to ask questions they wanted answered by scientific research and to build their confidence in assessing research evidence.
Collins, S., Brueton, R., Graham, T. G., Organ, S., Strother, A., West, S. E. and McKendree, J. (2020)
This paper describes an inclusive participatory approach engaging multi-stakeholders in decision-making processes in three African agri-food systems.
Morris, J., Ensor, J. E., Pfeifer, C., Marchant, R., Mulatu, D. W., Soka, G., Ouédraogo-Koné, S., Wakeyo, M. B. and Topi, C. (2020)
The report sets out the building blocks of a proposed new strategic approach for the UK to overcome the challenge of commodity-driven deforestation and land conversion.
SEI’s Chris West contributed as an expert adviser to the taskforce on issues of monitoring and reporting, in particular recommendations for a monitoring, measurement and reporting framework covering current and future commodity supply chain forest risk, impact and response.
Results of a mapping exercise are presented in this technical report, with reflections on the opportunities it provides for improving knowledge of small-scale irrigation in countries with incomplete irrigation inventories.
The map was used to validate the results of the decision-support tool Targeting Agricultural Water Management Interventions (TAGMI), which calculates the varying spatial likelihood of long-term success of an intervention at district level across the country.
Chaix-Bar, M., Barron, J., Cinderby, S., Cambridge, H. and Morris, J.