Understanding Open Access Publishing

𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐑𝐢𝐬𝐤 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧-𝐀𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐓𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐬 – 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 🇪🇺 I recently shared a collection of open-access tools to assess climate and nature-related risks in Germany. Now, here’s a structured list covering the whole of Europe. It brings together: 🏛️ The relevant political regulations and strategies 🗂️ Frameworks for climate risk assessment aligned with these regulations 📚 Key resource hubs and EU-funded projects on climate risk ⛈️ The best reports on climate risk in Europe 📊 A methodology for cost-benefit analysis of climate adaptation measures 🗺️ Leading geospatial tools for mapping and monitoring climate- and nature-related risks. ❗The list is structured along the steps of a climate risk assessment and the relevant hazards to cover: flood, drought, wildfire, ecosystem degradation, ... For geospatial tools, I included only the strongest solutions available. But since the scope is European-wide, their precision is limited. To delve deeper into the matter, I’ve included key practical frameworks, EU resource hubs, and more. 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭? Please comment below, and I’ll send it to you. (If you prefer to DM me, that works too.)

ISO - International Organization for Standardization x Greenhouse Gas Protocol (GHG Protocol) : A Partnership That Could Redefine Carbon Accounting One of the persistent challenges in global decarbonization efforts has been the fragmentation of greenhouse gas (GHG) standards. Companies often juggle ISO frameworks for compliance and GHG Protocol standards for disclosure, leading to overlaps, inefficiencies, and at times, confusion. The newly announced ISO–GHG Protocol partnership changes that equation. By harmonizing their portfolios into co-branded international standards, they are creating what amounts to a “common language” for emissions accounting. 💡 Why this matters: For businesses: Fewer frameworks to navigate, stronger clarity in reporting, and greater efficiency in supply chain engagement. For investors: Consistent, comparable, and reliable data to inform capital allocation decisions. For policymakers: A unified foundation that simplifies regulation and raises accountability standards. ⚙️ Strengthening Industry Loops This partnership has the potential to tighten the feedback loops across the sustainability ecosystem: 1.Corporate reporting feeds into investor decision-making with greater credibility. 2.Policy and regulation can align seamlessly with global standards. 3.Supply chains gain consistency, reducing duplication of efforts and enabling more granular data-sharing. ♻️The Bigger Take ! If successful, the ISO–GHG Protocol collaboration could accelerate the pace of corporate decarbonization, raise ambition levels across industries, and build trust in net-zero pathways. More importantly, it reframes carbon accounting not as a compliance burden, but as a strategic enabler of sustainable growth. In other words: harmonization is not just technical-it’s transformational. #Sustainability #ClimateAction #ISO #GHGProtocol #Decarbonization

Labor Displacement in Agriculture: Evidence from Oil Palm Expansion in Indonesia In a recently published open access paper with long-term primary and secondary data from Indonesia, we show that the oil palm boom has increased demand for land & male labor, but reduced demand for female labor. Interesting implications for the economy, the environment, & gender equity. Open access link to paper in Land Economics: https://lnkd.in/eud2TizT Christoph Kubitza, Vijesh Krishna, Dr. Thomas Kopp, nunung nuryartono Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung / Center for Development Research (ZEF)

📢 New Publication Alert! Excited to share our latest research: "Gender gap in agricultural labour productivity: A comparison across African countries" by Natalia P., Valentina Costa, and Erdgin Mane. 🌍 In sub-Saharan Africa, where women make up half of the agricultural workforce, productivity remains unequal. Using data from the World Bank’s LSMS-ISA surveys across Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, Uganda, and Tanzania, we examine the gender disparities in agricultural labour productivity. 📘 Applying the Oaxaca–Blinder decomposition, we unpack the drivers behind these disparities and highlight the need for targeted policy interventions to ensure equitable access to productive resources. 🔍 Key Insights: 📈 Male-managed plots show 33% higher labour productivity on average compared to female-managed plots. ⏱️ The gender gap narrows when productivity is measured in hours rather than days. 🧑🌾 Differences in productivity are largely driven by access to inputs—underscoring the importance of addressing structural inequalities. 🤝 Jointly managed plots reveal nuanced patterns, with female-managed plots lagging but not significantly so. This cross-country analysis sheds light on persistent gender disparities in agriculture and offers evidence to inform inclusive agricultural policies. 🔗 Read the full paper here: https://lnkd.in/dAVYYA7C #GenderEquality #WomensEmpowerment #Agriculture #Productivity #DevelopmentResearch #Africa #PolicyImpact #GlobalFoodSecurity #FAO #LSMS #WorldBank

Sharing new open-access research just published in the Journal of Rural Studies: Gender (in)equity and the adoption of farm machinery – Opportunities and trade-offs in Bangladesh livestock systems . This study, led by Michael Euler at CIMMYT, conducted with 373 livestock-producing households across Bangladesh, examine how mechanized fodder choppers affect women’s lives and time allocation, participation in decision-making, and control over livestock income. Key findings: • Adoption of mechanized fodder choppers reduced women’s workload and increased resting time, supporting wellbeing. • Men reported greater influence over decisions on livestock income, highlighting risks to women’s agency. • Impacts of farm machinery adoption are complex, with both opportunities and trade-offs for gender equity. The evidence underscores the need for development programs and policies to ensure women can fully capture benefits from agricultural mechanization while safeguarding against unintended reinforcement of existing inequalities. The paper is available here for download: https://lnkd.in/gWHmNNeu CGIAR Gender Equality and Inclusion | CGIAR

Our guest contribution for the International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research (IJEBR) Special Issue on the theme "Exploring entrepreneurship policy in a global context: a gender perspective" is online in Open Access. https://lnkd.in/eWdkhjXn We identify four essential areas of research on entrepreneurship and gender that are a priori fertile in terms of new knowledge. Firstly, the influence of context, emphasizing the importance of considering different cultural and regulatory contexts, including gender equality frameworks and ethnicity. Secondly, we would not advocate merely duplicating research conducted in developed countries in developing country contexts. Rather, the need for research on women's entrepreneurship in developing countries focusing on issues unique to those settings. Thirdly, the challenges of measuring the impact of entrepreneurship due to varied definitions of entrepreneurship and difficulties in data collection. Lastly, the importance of methodological diversity in research methods, advocating for longitudinal studies, cross-country examinations, and mixed-method approaches to develop gender-sensitive entrepreneurship policies. Collaboration among researchers, practitioners, and policymakers is also highlighted as crucial. https://lnkd.in/eWdkhjXn #entrepreneurship #gender #policy Colette Henry, FRSA, FAcSS Joan Ballantine Helle Neergaard Alena Křížková Marcus Dejardin

Happy to share our recent publication in Current Research in Environmental Sustainability "What works, where and how? A systematic literature review of climate change adaptation measures in India". In this first-of-its-kind study, we conducted a systematic review of over 2,100 peer-reviewed articles (2017–2023) and found only 28 studies that clearly focused on climate change adaptation (CCA) measures in India using IPCC definitions of incremental and transformative adaptation. What we found: • Adaptation research is heavily skewed towards agriculture sector with a technocratic approach. • Most literature emphasizes incremental adaptation in agriculture (e.g., crop diversification, altered sowing cycles), with limited insights into transformative adaptation. • There’s a geographical gap, vulnerable regions like Northeast India are underrepresented, despite being on the frontlines of climate risk. • Gender, urban resilience, and soft adaptation measures (like education and capacity building) are majorly underrepresented. • A lack of clarity persists on how adaptation types are conceptualized in literature. Our review highlights the urgent need for more inclusive, transformative, and context-specific adaptation research to support climate-resilient development in India. Transformative adaptation is necessary as it reimagines and restructures systems to address the root causes of vulnerability, leading to long-term resilience and sustainability unlike incremental adaptation that focuses on small-scale adjustments within existing systems. It is an open access publication, we hope you will find it interesting. Thanks to my co authors Sumit Vij Surbhi Vyas Visakha G !

**𝐀𝐬 𝐚 𝐰𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧, 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞, 𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐲 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭** Lahore, a megacity of sharp contrasts, is a place where elite neighbourhoods and low-income settlements stand side by side. But what’s often invisible is how this divide shapes something as essential as access to energy—especially for women living in the urban peripheries. I am beyond thrilled to share that my latest research, "𝐒𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐖𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧'𝐬 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐀𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐄𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐲," has been published in the prestigious 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘜𝘳𝘣𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘙𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘙𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩, IJURR Foundation. It looks at how energy access for women varies across different urban peripheries and the impact that has on their daily lives. 🚨 𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐞’𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 👇: 🔹 Energy access is pretty much shaped by geography, but is also tied to who you are—your gender, income, religion, job, as well as where you live. And we back this with quantitative and qualitative data. 🔹 Proximity to affluent high-income urban core areas can open up access to energy and services for low-income women, but it can also reinforce certain power imbalances. 🔹 Women’s time poverty, drudgery, agency and empowerment is shaped by the infrastructure they have access to—whether its within their homes, in their neighbourhoods, or the wider city. Private-public boundaries are often blurred in the interlinks between energy equity and gender equity- showing that to empower women through electricity, we need to ensure their access in domestic spaces, workplaces and public spaces. This research is a call to action for more #Inclusive and #GenderResponsive infrastructure development and urban planning. We need to design cities that give everyone—not just the privileged few—a fair shot at living with dignity and opportunity. Read the full open-access paper here: https://lnkd.in/eW_99upt This paper has been three years in the making, and I am extremely grateful to my co-authors Hadia Majid, Rabia Saeed, Alaiba Faheem and Charlotte Lemanski for their continued support. I also acknowledge the contributions of our project RA Shahzina Malik in data collection, and am extremely grateful to all the women who took out the time to participate in our study. I am also very thankful to the Energy IRC at Cambridge for funding our project. I‘d love to hear your take on our research and how you think we can tackle urban inequalities. Please share your thoughts! 👇 UN Women The Gendered City CRASSH Cambridge Climate Society CITY at LUMS World Urban Forum GWNET: Global Women's Network for the Energy Transition Lucy Cavendish College #EnergyJustice #GenderEquity #InclusiveCities #Sustainability #UrbanDevelopment #Lahore #SDGs

🌍 New WorldPop preprint led by Dorothea Woods describing global gridded multi-temporal datasets to support human population distribution modelling: https://lnkd.in/e3SGTgcK 💥 The article presents an open access repository of 73 gridded datasets covering topography, climate, night time lights, land cover, inland water, infrastructure, protected areas as well as the built-up environment on a global level at a spatial resolution of 3 arc-seconds (approximately 100 metres) 💥 Datasets are available as annual time series from 2015 up to and including at least 2020, and as recent as 2023 where source datasets allow 💻 Data openly available via the WorldPop hub: https://lnkd.in/eFXbbwuX 🧮 Code used in the harmonization process available here: https://lnkd.in/e_HW9vgs 🤝 Supported by the University of Southampton's IRIDIS High Performance Computing Facility and the Gates Foundation

🌟 Proud Moment! 🌟 I'm delighted to share this insightful article resulting from Phuong (Kat) Nguyen, PhD's research. Myself and Phuong's other PhD supervisors, Alice Beban and Samantha Gardyne, had the pleasure of co-authoring this. This work delves into a key question in international development: does connecting smallholder women to value chains really empower them and close the gender gap? 📚 Using a case study in Vietnam, we explored women's empowerment across four dimensions: economic, psychological, social, and political. The findings challenge the assumption that participation in value chains alone brings empowerment. In fact, existing patriarchal structures in families, communities, and businesses often limit women's control over high-value production decisions. Instead, they tend to gain autonomy over ‘women's crops’ that yield smaller incomes, while ‘men’s work’ is reserved for larger, more lucrative crops. The takeaway? True empowerment calls for a relational approach, not just an individual one. Development initiatives should actively involve both men and women to foster meaningful change within households, communities, and broader networks. A huge thank you to everyone who supported this research, especially the research participants and research assistants – let’s keep pushing for approaches that genuinely empower women in sustainable, inclusive ways. #GenderEquality #WomensEmpowerment #SustainableDevelopment #ValueChains #Vietnam The full article is open access and available here: https://lnkd.in/gcmzzKbC