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The Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE) wants to promote the cleantech opportunities of municipalities
The way municipalities promote low-carbon solutions and cleantech business is very important to the market. The Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE) has investigated how the HINKU municipalities aimin...
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2015-06-09
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Finnish Sustainable Communities FISU - vitality from resource wisdom
No waste, no emissions, no overconsumption. Four Finnish cities, Jyväskylä, Lappeenranta, Turku and Forssa, have committed to working towards becoming carbon neutral and waste-free and curbing overcon...
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2015-06-09
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Dr Joe Ravetz is a visual thinker
The public lecture held by Dr Joe Ravetz is loaded with hand drawn maps and pictures. Even his self-presentation on the Urban 3.0 website is partly a comic strip. "I am a researcher of sustainable fut...
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2015-02-05
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Finnish bioenergy research highly visible in international science communication
Scientific articles on bioenergy written by Finnish researchers have gained exceptionally good visibility in the international science community. They are cited, downloaded and used extensively in, fo...
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2015-01-20
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SYKE researcher wins best paper award
Dr Paula Kivimaa, a senior researcher at the Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), was awarded the best paper prize at the 5th International Conference on Sustainability Transitions.
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2014-09-03
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Nature is conserved for its owns sake – and for all of us
Along with the pressure to economize on public budgets, also nature conservation faces a need to understand how incentives reward for conservation. The idea of ecosystem service payments is often coup...
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2014-07-18
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Evaluations should match decision-making realities
SYKE hosted the Annual Forum of the European Environmental Evaluators’ Network (EEEN) in Helsinki at the end of April. The forum brought together evaluation researchers, environmental impact assessors...
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2014-05-27
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