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This podcast chronicles the City Health and Wellbeing Initiative instituted by the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) to investigate how rapidly growing cities are affecting the well-being of residents, and how this interacts with the overall health of city systems. This podcast is brought to you by the Stockholm Environment Institute.
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In this episode, Vishal talks to one of the most important stakeholders that SEI works with in Nakuru - Grace Karanja, Nakuru County's Director of Environment, Energy, Climate Change and Natural Resources. Together, they unpack the on-ground realities and concerns of the County government of Nakuru, Kenya, that play into the work being done by both…
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In the fourth episode of the City Health and Wellbeing podcast, Vishal Mehta talks to Romanus Opiyo, an urban planner by training and SEI's program head in their Africa center located in Nairobi, Kenya. Vishal and Romanus discuss the work spearheaded by Romanus and the rest of the SEI team on air pollution.…
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In this, third episode, Vishal Mehta introduces one of the outputs of SEI's City Health and Wellbeing Initiative, namely the Urban Toolbox for "liveable" cities. This Toolbox is a collection of digital tools that support the understanding of different dimensions of urban sustainability. Vishal is joined by Diane Archer from SEI's Asia office in Tha…
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SEI York’s citizen science research group has expertise in designing, running and evaluating citizen science projects on environmental sustainability topics. In this episode, Vishal Mehta talks to his colleague, Rachel Pateman from SEI York about citizen science in general and its application in SEI's City Health and Wellbeing Initiative.…
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A city provides opportunities for education, jobs and health care, for example, but is that all there is to a good life? Can good health and well being coexist with economic and business opportunities that are also people-centric, liveable, equitable, sociable, and, maybe even, enjoyable? This is the central question that the folks at SEI (Stockhol…
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A city provides opportunities for education, jobs and health care, for example, but is that all there is to a good life? Can good health and well being coexist with economic and business opportunities that are also people-centric, liveable, equitable, sociable, and, maybe even, enjoyable? This is the central question that the folks at SEI (Stockhol…
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