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Sustainability Issues in Global Supply Chains: Forest Conservation
(2020)The seventh and last video of our "ISTP4Public" series sheds light on sustainability issues in forest-focused supply chain policies. Prof. Rachael Garrett from the Department of Environmental Systems Science discusses the global developments that provoked her scientific interest in this topic, and she talks about supply chain policies' effectiveness. She also highlights the need for local governments' involvement and the key role of ...Video -
Managing the COVID-19 pandemic in poor urban neighborhoods: The case of Accra and Johannesburg
(2020)The global COVID-19 pandemic is manifesting differently in every country. The new video of our "ISTP4Public" series sheds light on how the urban poor mitigated their risk of infection in Accra and Johannesburg at the onset of the COVID-19 outbreak. Researchers Antoinette van der Merwe from the Swiss Minerals Observatory and Kathrin Durizzo from the Development Economics Group talk about their main findings and the policy implications.Video -
Public Lighting in Informal Settlements: Using VR as an Evaluation Tool for Policy-Making (Video Documentation)
(2020)ISTP4Public Video SeriesIn our latest ISTP4Public video, ISTP researchers from the Urban Research Incubator David Kretzer & Michael Walczak investigated the application of Virtual Environments in lighting planning and policy making.Other Publication -
Utilization-focused scientific policy advice: a six-point checklist
(2020)ISTP4Public Video SeriesIn this video of our "ISTP4Public" series, Prof. David Kaufmann from ETH Zurich’s Spatial Development and Urban Policy Group highlights the need for policy advice that includes considerations of implementability and acceptance of the proposed policy. To help climate scientists provide such utilization-focused policy advice, Prof. Kaufmann worked together with various researchers and formulated a six-point checklist. One of their key ...Other Publication -
Improved on-farm storage reduces seasonal food insecurity of smallholder farmer households
(2020)ISTP4Public Video SeriesIn this "ISTP4Public" video, we focused on a research project investigating low-cost technology for improved on-farm storage. The multi-disciplinary research team responsible for the project includes researchers in Switzerland (ETH Zurich; University of Zurich), research institutes in Africa, and NGOs/IGOS specialized in rural development (Helvetas; UN World Food Programme’s Global Post Harvest Knowledge & Operations Centre). To analyse ...Video -
What drives public support for policies to enhance electric vehicle adoption?
(2020)ISTP4Public Video SeriesThe second video of the "ISTP4Public" video series provides fresh insights into the public support and the political feasibility of policy options for promoting EV adoption. Based on a choice experiment, ISTP PhD student Gracia Brückmann and Prof. Thomas Bernauer found that pull measures, such as subsidies for electric cars, attract more public support even when policy funding is revealed. This suggests that more ambitious pull measures ...Video -
Policy packaging can make food system transformation feasible
(2020)ISTP4Public Video Series“ISTP4Public” started its journey with a recent article on food system transformation, which was published in Nature Food. This study examines how potentially effective policy instruments may be designed and combined so as to reduce public backlash and ensure political feasibility of transforming the food system.Video -
MuSES Grand Finale: Multi-Scale Energy Systems for Low Carbon Cities – 10 Video Presentations
(2020)The Multi-Scale Energy Systems for Low-Carbon Cities (MUSES) project says goodbye after 4 years of cutting-edge research on the topic of energy and low-carbon cities. This is the compilation of the Webinar showcasing our project findings on Thursday the 26th of March of 2020 at 3:30 pm (Singapore local time). More information about the program and speakers is in here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/grand-finale-multi-scale-energy-sy ...Video