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Improving Rural Livelihoods, Energy Access, and Resilience Where It’s Needed Most: The Case for Solar Mini-Grid Irrigation in Ethiopia
(2022-07-18)Ethiopia’s levels of agricultural productivity and energy access are among the lowest in the world. Now Ethiopia is moving forward with the new Distributed Renewable Energy-Agriculture Modalities (DREAM) project to test ... -
Invited Remarks on The Twilight of Cutting
(Somatosphere: Science, Medicine, and Anthropology (online), 2019)Invited remarks on Saida Hodžić, The Twilight of Cutting: African Activism and Life after NGOs. -
Climate Finance for Just Transitions: Building Low-Carbon Development Pathways in an Age of US-China Rivalry
(2022-09-14)This paper investigates challenges throughout the international climate finance landscape and recommends pathways for how investments into low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) can more effectively drive low-carbon ... -
Developing a State-Level Natural and Working Lands Climate Action Plan
(2022-10-13)Natural and working lands—forests, wetlands, coastal, and agricultural lands—provide many benefits, including supporting key economic sectors, enhancing community resilience to hazards such as fires and floods, and contributing ... -
Can Time-of-Use Tariffs Increase the Financial Viability of Mini-Grids?
(2022-10-26)Declining solar and battery costs and increased operational efficiency have helped expand community-scale mini-grids, especially in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, where they now meet the power needs of over 47 million ... -
Pathways to Net-Zero for the US Energy Transition
(2022-11-04)What will it take to achieve a net-zero carbon emissions footprint for the US economy by 2050? This report from Energy Pathways USA helps strengthen the evidence base on what will be required for a robust US energy transition ... -
Coalition Stability in PJM: Exploring the Consequences of State Defection from the Wholesale Market
(2022-11-28)Using a simulation tool, the authors investigate the effects created by a US state defecting from the wholesale electricity market in PJM, an organized electric grid in the eastern United States, on the states that remain ... -
Taxes and Subsidies and the Transition to Clean Cooking: A Review of Relevant Theoretical and Empirical Insights
(2022-11-22)United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 7.1 sets a target of ensuring universal access to affordable, reliable, and modern energy services by 2030. Unfortunately, many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are well ... -
State of the Coast: A Review of Coastal Management Policies for Six States
(2023-01-17)This analysis of coastal habitat policy in six US states—California, Florida, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Texas, and Washington—aims to identify promising policy approaches for improved protection and restoration of oyster ... -
Developing Key Performance Indicators for Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience Planning
(2022-08-17)This document from the Resilience Roadmap project recommends a common approach to developing key performance indicators (KPIs) for climate change adaptation and resilience planning, drawing upon current science and tools ... -
Does Environmental Review Worsen the Wildfire Crisis? How Environmental Analysis Delays Fuel Treatment Projects.
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Bridge Collaborative Practitioner’s Guide: Principles and Guidance for Cross-sector Action Planning and Evidence Evaluation
(2017-10-25)The health, development and environment sectors increasingly realize that they cannot achieve their respective goals by acting in isolation. Yet, as they pivot to act collectively, they face challenges in finding and interpreting ... -
Data and Modeling Infrastructure for National Integration of Ecosystem Services into Decision Making: Expert Summaries
(2017-07-17)Resource managers face increasingly complex decisions as they attempt to manage for the long-term sustainability and the health of natural resources. Incorporating ecosystem services into decision processes provides a means ... -
Evidence Library for Oyster Reef Restoration in the Gulf of Mexico
(2020-04-28)Billions of dollars will be spent on large-scale restoration of Gulf ecosystems over the coming decades, but there is no shared platform to guide assessment and reporting of restoration progress and effectiveness for the ... -
Ecosystem Services Conceptual Model Application: Bureau of Land Management Solar Energy Development
(2018-09-05)Interest in using ecosystem services to integrate considerations of people and the environment continues to grow in federal agencies. One method that can help agencies incorporate ecosystem services into decision making ... -
Workshop Guide: Using Facilitation Techniques to Integrate Ecosystem Services into Coastal Management Decisions
(2019-02-18)Estuarine systems are areas of immense ecological importance and provide numerous social, economic, and environmental benefits. The strong link between healthy habitats and these benefits requires incorporating the concerns ... -
Building Ecosystem Services Conceptual Models
(2018-09-05)Funders and developers of infrastructure projects and businesses and managers overseeing critical natural resources are becoming increasingly aware of and interested in ecosystem services. Although methods for incorporating ... -
Art, Geopolitics and Gendering in Afghanistan, Part 2
(The Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy, 2017)
