City health and well-being

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 the County officials themselves and in collaboration with SEI Africa in order to make Nakuru a healthy environment where every citizen can have the opportunity to thrive.Episode art image credit: Howard Cambridge / SEI

In the fourth episode of the City Health and Well-being 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.Episode art image credit: Lawrence Nzuve / SEI.

In this third episode, Vishal Mehta introduces one of the outputs of SEI's City Health and Well-being 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 Thailand and Rosie Witton from SEI's Oxford centre in the UK.The Urban Toolbox will be published online in the weeks following the release of this episode. It will be available on the weAdapt website at www.weadapt.org. Once on the site, one can navigate through the different networks available. Within the network section, all the current networks will be visible. That is where SEI's Urban Toolbox will be sitting as well.Episode art image credit: Wasike Yusuf Arby

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 Well-being Initiative.Episode art image credit: Dario Valenzuela on Unsplash

A city provides opportunities for education, jobs andhealth 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 (Stockholm Environment Institute), have been poring over. And this is exactly what this podcast called the City Health and Well-being podcast intends to understand and share with you.Vishal Mehta, a Senior Scientist at SEI, working in their Davis, California office, who has actually worked on the City Health and Well-being Initiative hosts the podcast, and Gokul Chakravarthy is its producer.In this first episode of the City Health and Well-being podcast, Vishal is joined by Steve Cinderby from SEI's York centre in the UK. Steve is one of the co-leads of this Initiative and introduces the Initiative, its purpose, methods, challenges and findings.Episode art image credit: Diane Archer / SEI.