livelihoods

Diversification of household livelihood activities has become an important pillar of rural devel- opment strategies for improving …

Objective: Countries in sub-Saharan Africa suffer the highest rates of child mortality worldwide. Urban areas tend to have lower …

The BHET project is assessing the health, environmental, and welfare impacts of a large-scale energy transition policy in peri-urban Beijing. Using the quasi-random rollout of this policy throughout villages in Beijing municipality, we are collecting detailed data on changes in household heating behavior, energy expenditures, indoor & outdoor air quality, air exposure, and other health metrics in over 1000 households in 50 villages over 4 years.

Pathways to equitable healthy cities is a global partnership that aims to improve population health, enhance health equity and ensure environmental sustainability in cities around the world through co-production of rigorous evidence with policy and civil society partners in cities in five countries. We use diverse data sources, especially emerging open and big data, and novel methods for data integration and visualisation to characterise cities dynamic social, physical and natural environments, people’s experiences of these environments, and their health.

This project investigates feedbacks among locusts, livestock, nutrients and people. Current fieldwork focuses on understanding these relationships in Senegal, building on past work in China and Australia. We are investigating two overarching questions: (1) How do insect-nutrient relations and livestock grazing strategies interact to affect food security, and rangeland degradation? (2) How do property rights regimes affect the adaptive capacity of societies to respond to the linkages between overgrazing and locust outbreaks?

This project developed our understanding of the links between human welfare and ecosystem services by tracing rural welfare dependencies back to local ecosystems and land uses. We developed methods for capturing these dependencies through household surveys, land use data, and models of ecosystem service flows. Our primary collaborating partners were the Chinese Academy of Science and the Natural Capital Project.

This paper examines spatial spillovers associated with the adoption of organic dairy farm- ing. We hypothesize that neighboring farmers …