Eeva Furman

 

Director, professor
Environmental Policy Centre

phD

Email: firstname.surname@ymparisto.fi
Telephone: 0295 251 123
Skype: syke_eevafurman

Finnish Environment Centre, Environmental Policy Centre
Street address: Mechelininkatu 34a
Postal address: P.O. Box 140, FI-00251 Helsinki, Finland

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Present role

My duties include directing the Environmental Policy Centre and being part of the lead group of SYKE. I lead national and international research projects (see below) and my positions of trust include chairing and participating boards in the fields of sustainable development, environment, biodiversity and ecosystem services and of research linked to them.

Background

I have been researching and developing environmental and sustainable development governance for more than 20 years. The last 10 years I have been occupied by Europe wide research collaboration where we have focused on challenges in and solutions for human environment relationship. Before that I was involved in intergovernmental environmental collaboration in the Arctic, Asian and European context.

During the last 20 years I have gained experience in international and national environmental collaboration through R&D projects and processes. I am an ecologist from training  (MSc in zoology, University of Helsinki,  PhD in marine biology, University of Wales, Menai Bridge). During my career I have been active in teaching at universities and communicating with the wide audience in written and oral form.

I have always had an orientation towards finding solutions. I get satisfaction and energy from nature, music and my closest. To me, moderateness and fairness are important values.

• CV

Research activities
 

Ongoing

• Politics, practices and transformative potential of sustainable diets POPRASUS
• Eklipse: Knowledge & Learning Mechanism on Biodiversity & Ecosystem Services

Finished

• Biodiversity hypothesis and immunetolerance (Funder: Ministry of the Environment)
• Avain2030 - Key questions of sustainable development and action plan 2030
• Homes beyond homes (HOBO) - multiple dwelling and everyday living in leisure spaces  (In Finnish)
• Operationalisation of natural capital and ecosystem services: from concepts to real-world applications (OpenNESS)
• Assessment and development of the Commitment-tool for sustainable development in Finland  (KekeArvi)  (In Finnish)

Presentations in the web
 

Power Point -presentations

• Looking with binoculars on the sustainable development in the arctic: oppportunities and challenges arising from the conceptual framework of the Agenda2030 (UArctic, Oulu, September 5.2018) (pdf, 1 MB)
• Introduction to sustainable development goals by using soil-human microbiota as a case (Conference on the Ecology of Soil Microorganisms (Helsinki, June 21, 2018) (pdf, 3,9 MB)
• Implementation of the UN Agenda 2030 – pathways to sustainable development (IVL Tillståndet i miljö, Stockholm, May 24, 2018) (pdf, 4,7 MB)
• Everything is interlinked: How to deal with biodiversity-issue when implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals of Agenda2030? (ALTER-Net Summer School, September, 2017) (pdf, 4 KB) 
• Interlinkages and how to deal with them when aiming to reach the UN Sustainable Development Goals (ALTER-Net conference, Ghent, May 2017) (pdf, 2,1 KB)
• GSDR and Science-Policy Interface (Future earth, New York, March 2017) (pdf, 1,4 KB)
• Systemic approach to foster Human Health through Nature based solutions (EcoSummit, Montpellier, 2016) (pdf, 4,8 KB)
• Interdisciplinary perspectives on ecosystem services (Ghent, May, 2015) (pdf, 5 KB)

Video presentations

• Eklipse, science café, 2016
• A sustainable Arctic – innovative approaches, Arctic conference, Oulu, 15.-16. June 2017
  Session 15 June  /  Session 16 June
• Cities as the engine for the Great Food Transformation. Panel at EAT Forum, Stockholm, June 12, 2018

Blogs

• Integrating ecosystem services into land, water and urban management (Globaldevblog, 5 April 2018 / Espanol / Francais)
• Speaking to the heart… with evidence (Sustainable Development Knowledge Platfom, 26.4.2018)

Media interviews

• UN science report to guide countries on the SDGs (SciDevNet, 6 September 2017)
• Science has a lot to offer to sustainable development (The European Business Network for Corporate Social Responsibility, 4 October 2018)
• Industry's role in attaining the UN SDGs. (Konecranes magazine 10 October 2018, page 17)

Other activities

• Member of the UN nominated group of 15 experts writing the global sustainable development report 2019 (2016-2019)
• Chair of the advisory panel for the Finnish National Commission on Sustainable Development (2014-2018)
• Representative of SYKE at the council of ALTER-Net: the European research network of biodiversity and ecosystem services (ongoing)
• Member of the Challenges 5: Climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials´ advisory group for Horizon2020 – the framework programme for research and innovation (2013-2017)
• Member of UN Habitat3 preparatory Policy Unit on Urban Ecology and Resilience (2015-2016)

Publications

I have produced articles, reports, books and other material for communication for science community, experts and wide audience in English and Finnish. Some of my outputs have been translated into Russian, German and Swedish.  I have received national awards for two of my books.

• Publications, 6 November, 2019 (pdf)

Latest publications

	Furman, Eeva; Häyhä, Tiina; Hirvilammi, Tuuli. 2018: A future the planet can accommodate SYKE Policy Brief. ISBN 978-952-11-4938-2. https://helda.helsinki.fi/handle/10138/235418
	Paloniemi, Riikka; Tiitu, Maija; Viinikka, Arto; Vikström, Suvi; Furman, Eeva. 2017: Promoting health through interaction with nature in urban areas. SYKE Policy Brief. ISBN 978-952-11-4862-0. https://helda.helsinki.fi/handle/10138/215210
	Furman, E. 2016. From inspiration to action, from action to institution – some early interventions of Arctic collaboration in sustainable development. In: Heininen, L., H. Exner-Pirot, & J. Plouffe. (Eds.). (2016). Arctic Yearbook 2016. Akureyri, Iceland: Northern Research Forum. ISSN 2298–2418, pp. 252-255. Available from http://www.arcticyearbook.com
	Lyytimäki, J., Lähteenoja, S., Sokero, M., Korhonen, S., Furman, E.  2016. Agenda 2030 in Finland: Key questions and indicators of sustainable development.Publications of the Government´s analysis, assessment and research activities 32/2016
	Eeva Furman & Marion Potchin 2015. Towards sustainable nature-based solutions: research to enhance the systemic transition. OpenNESS brief, no. 02, May 2015