ISTP4Public Video Series
Our video statement series "ISTP4Public" provides insights into ISTP-related research activities with high public relevance. Listen to our researchers shedding light on substantive, complex real-world issues, whose analysis requires skills in policy analysis, as well as science and engineering know-how.
Sustainability Issues in Global Supply Chains: Forest Conservation
We are thrilled to announce that the last "ISTP4Public" video concluding our video statement series is now available. Prof. Rachael Garrett from the Department of Environmental Systems Science explains the main motivation behind her research project on sustainability issues in global supply chains. The project will be part of an upcoming interdisciplinary research group within ISTP.
She discusses supply chain policies' effectiveness and highlights the need for local governments' involvement to provide capacity building and positive incentives for farmers to become more sustainable. She also talks about the key role that importing regions could play by adopting more rigorous policies, thus driving greater uptake of sustainability policies among supply chain actors.
Managing the COVID-19 pandemic in poor urban neighborhoods: The case of Accra and Johannesburg
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 external page Antoinette van der Merwe from the Swiss Minerals Observatory and Kathrin Durizzo from the Development Economics Group talk about their research's main findings and the policy implications.
Public Lighting in Informal Settlements: Using Virtual Environments as an Evaluation Tool for Policy Making
To date, only sparse research has been conducted on the lighting quality of formal luminaires installed in informal settlements. In the latest video of our "ISTP4Public" series, ISTP researchers from the Urban Research Incubator David Kretzer & Michael Walczak elaborate on the application of Virtual Environments in lighting planning and policy-making based on a case-study in an informal settlement in Bogotá. They conclude that dynamic VE technology appears to be a promising decision-making tool for illustrating potential lighting planning and design shortcomings to policy stakeholders.
Giving climate policy advice that makes a difference
Why does so little of the vast knowledge about fighting climate change make it into policy? In the brand new video of our "ISTP4Public" series, ETH Prof. David Kaufmann 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.
Impacts of Improved on-Farm Storage
What are the impacts of improved on-farm storage on seasonal food insecurity of smallholder farmer households? In the new video of our "ISTP4Public" series, Michael Brander from the ISTP gives an insight into his and Matthias Huss’ research project focused on Sub-Saharan Africa.
What drives public support for policies to enhance electric vehicle adoption?
In this video, we focused on an insightful publication by ISTP PhD student Gracia Brückmann and Prof. Thomas Bernauer on EV adoption. Based on a choice experiment, they 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 in this area are politically feasible.
Policy packaging can make food system transformation feasible
In this video, Lukas Fesenfeld explains 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.
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