The 2024 SETI Annual Workshop, held on June 18-19, brought together a vibrant network of researchers, policymakers, and students for an engaging exchange of ideas and groundbreaking research. The…
Bogotá, the capital of Colombia, suffers from heavy air pollution, EfD researchers have studied alternative solutions to evaluate what interventions are most effective. The result of their work is now
Call for Papers! SETI 2024 Annual Meeting Deadline: April 21, 2024, 23:59 ET USA. We are pleased to announce that the Ninth Annual Workshop of the Sustainable Energy Transitions Initiative (SETI) will…
Merely providing a collection service that ensures waste segregated at source is not mixed during transportation is not enough to induce households to segregate. Information campaigns are a must.
This research brief is based on the EfD Discussion Paper titled Disentangling the chicken or egg problem of household waste sorting and segregated waste collection: A randomized control trial in India by authors Shivani Wadehra, Zihan Nie, and Francisco Alpizar
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This study analyzes how daily mobility may be disrupted or constrained due to the flooding of road infrastructure. The empirical focus is Accra, Ghana, a rapidly growing African city with frequent flood events due to heavy rainfall. In the context of very scarce mobility data availability from official sources, this study proposes a novel way to utilize data from a large survey of mobility patterns conducted through in-person interviews in four peri-urban neighbourhoods.
Urban managers in sub-Saharan Africa have recently come under intense pressure to prepare for and adapt to the footprints of rapid peri-urbanization and increased climate-related risks. Addressing spatial planning integral with the urban expansion is not only because climate variability is becoming more prominent. Further, within peri-urban zones, people most often live and work in physical areas of hazard that are commensurate with their economic stability. This makes the need for adaptation amidst inadequate resources imperative.
The theme of the SOCHER 2023 meeting in the city of Valdivia in southern Chile was Territorial Challenges and Sustainability. Several EfD Chile fellow researchers, academics, and alumni from various…