Petrus Kautto

PhD (Organisations & Management, Aalto University School of Business)

Senior Researcher, Academy of Finland Postdoctoral Researcher

Email: firstname.lastname@ymparisto.fi

Tel. +358 (0)400 148850
Fax. +358 (0)9 4030 0382

Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE)
Environmental Governance Studies Unit
Street address: Mechelininkatu 34a
Mail address: P.O.Box 140, 00251 Helsinki, Finland

Tasks and research interests

• Business and politics relations
• Politics and potentials of product oriented environmental policies
• Evaluation and impact assessment

Current projects

Nanosafety on trial(s): Understanding politics and potentials of product oriented environmental policies, 2012-2015 (Academy of Finland, project No. 260492)

Previous projects

Linking Impact Assessment Instruments to Sustainability Expertise, LIAISE (FP7, 2009-2014)

POlicy Influence of iNdicaTors, POINT (FP7, 2008-2011)

Development and application of a standardized methodology for the PROspective Sustainability assessment of Technologies, PROSUITE (FP7, 2009-2013)

Impact assessment of legal proposals, plans and programmes at the Ministry of the Environment (Ministry of the Environment, 2011-2013)

Introducing Environmental Compliance Monitoring Fees: Impact Assessment (Ministry of the Environment, 2011-2012)

Environmental management and sustainable use of nanocellulose (CLEEN Ltd., 2011-2012)

Innovations in the Public Sector, Pub-I (The Advisory Board for Sectoral Research, 2010-2011)

Impact assessment of Finnish Waste Legislation Reform (Ministry of the Environment, 2009)

Memberships in various working groups, expert groups and associations etc. in the fields of product oriented environmental policy, waste policy and evaluation since 2003.

Publications

Publications in Google Scholar

Selected recent papers

• Podhora, Aranka & Helming, Katharina & Adenäuer, Lucie & Heckelei, Thomas & Kautto, Petrus & Reidsma, Pytrik & Rennings, Klaus & John Turnpenny, John & Jansen, Jacques: The policy-relevancy of impact assessment tools: evaluating nine years of European research funding. Environmental Science and Policy, Vol. 31, August 2013, pp. 85–95.
• Rinne, Janne & Lyytimäki, Jari & Kautto, Petrus: From sustainability to well-being: Lessons learned from the use of sustainable development indicators in national and EU level. Ecological Indicators, 2013.
• Kivimaa, Paula & Kautto, Petrus: Making or breaking environmental innovation? Technological change and innovation markets in the pulp and paper industry. Management Research Review, 2010, Vol. 33, No 4, pp. 289-305.
• Kautto, Petrus : Nokia as an Environmental Policy Actor - Evolution of Collaborative Corporate Political Activity in a Multinational Company. Journal of Common Market Studies, 2009, Vol. 47, No 1, pp. 103-125.
• Kautto, Petrus : Industry - government interaction in the preparation of a new directive: Nokia, industry associations and EuP. European Environment, 2007, Vol. 17, No 2, pp. 79-91.

Selected other publications / books and book chapters

• Lähtinen, Katja & Valve, Helena & Jouttijärvi, Timo & Kautto, Petrus & Koskela, Sirkka & Leskinen, Pekka & Silvo, Kimmo & Pitkänen, Marja & Kangas, Heli & Tukiainen, Pauliina: Piecing together research needs: safety, environmental performance and regulatory issues of nanofibrillated cellulose (NFC). Helsinki: Cleen Oy (Cluster for Energy and Environment), 2012. MMEA Research Report nr D2.5.2.
• Kautto, Petrus : Julkisen sektorin ja yritysten vuorovaikutus ympäristöpolitiikassa [Interaction of companies and public sector in environmental policy]. In Joutsenvirta, Maria & Halme, Minna & Jalas, Mikko & Mäkinen, Jukka (eds.): Vastuullinen liiketoiminta kansainvälisessä maailmassa. Helsinki: Gaudeamus, 2011. pp. 174-183.
• Kautto, Petrus: Who holds the reins in Integrated Product Policy? An individual company as a target of regulation and as a policy maker. Helsinki: Helsinki School of Economics, 2008. Acta Universitatis Oeconomicae Helsingiensis A-339. Doctoral thesis.