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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 -
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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 -
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