Eeva Furman

Director, professor, Doctor of Philosophy
Environmental Policy Centre

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Contact

Email: firstname.surname@ymparisto.fi
Telephone: +358 295 251 123
Skype: syke_eevafurman

Finnish Environment Centre, Environmental Policy Centre
Latokartanonkaari 11, FI-00790 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 (PDF)

Research activities

Ongoing

• Towards Eco-Welfare State: Orchestrating for Systemic Impact (ORSI)
• To Ally Technology, NAture and Society for integrated urban water management (ATeNAS)
• Health and Environment Research Agenda for Europe (HERA)
• Politics, practices and transformative potential of sustainable diets (POPRASUS)
• Knowledge & Learning Mechanism on Biodiversity & Ecosystem Services (Eklipse)

Finished

• Polku 2030 – A developmental evaluation of Finland’s sustainable development policy and transformation pathways (Polku)
• 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

2019

• What leadership in tomorrow’s sustainability? (Next Leaders' Europe Summit 2019, Helsinki, 21.3.2019, PDF) 
• Towards sustainable development: Interlinkages calling for systems transformations (Regional Forum for Sustainable Development, UNECE, Geneva, 22.3.2019, PDF)
• The UN Global Sustainable Development Report (GSDR): Highlights (World Science Forum, Budapest, 21.11.2019, PDF)
• Draft Global Sustainable Development Report 2019: messages for the globe, insights for the EU (European Parliament Public Hearing ”The remaining 12 years: EU action towards achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development", Brussels, 7.2.2019, PDF, 3 MB)
• The Global Sustainable Development Report (GSDR): set-up, main findings and recommedations (EEAC webinar 14.11.2019, PDF, 4,8 MB) 
• Politics, practices and the transformative potential of sustainable diets (FEEDING ON FUTURE, International Conference on sustainable food systems, Barcelona, 10-11 October 2019, PDF, 4,4 MB)

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

• Human health and the health of the natural environment cannot be disassociated from one another (THL Blog, 3.12.2019)
• Sustainable diets enhance progress in all Sustainable Development Goals (UN Chronicle, 2019) / Arabic / Spanish / Chinese / French / Russian
• 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 (2016-2019) who wrote the global sustainable development report 2019
• Chair of the advisory panel for the National Board of Sustainable Development, Finland (2015-2018, 2019-2021)
• 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.

• List of publications 5 June 2020 (PDF)
• The big leap: how to move from what is agreed and done to what needs to happen (PDF)
• Kaljonen, M., Salo, M., Lyytimäki, J., Furman, E (2019). From isolated labels and nudges to sustained tinkering: assessing long-term changes in sustainable eating at a lunch restaurant (British food journal, PDF) 
• Lyytimäki, J., Lonkila K.-M., Furman, E., Korhonen-Kurki, K., Lähteenoja, S. Untangling the interactions of sustainability targets: synergies and trade‑offs in the Northern European context (18.5.2020, PDF). Environment, Development and Sustainability. 

Six paths towards sustainability: a toolkit to promote a systemic transformation towards sustainable development in Finland. (PDF)
 

Furman, Eeva; Häyhä, Tiina; Hirvilammi, Tuuli. 2018: A future the planet can accommodate (Issuu)
 

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. (Issuu)

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 Artic Yearbook.

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. (PDF)