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Duties

Development and coordination of Circular Economy Research, CE governance, policy appraisals

Subject area

Circular economy
Research

Education and academic titles

PhD (organizations and management), Aalto University, School of Business

Licentiate of Administrative Sciences, University of Tampere

Post Doc researcher 2012-2016, Research Council of Finland

Research and expertise

  • Development of the Unit's Research Activities and Circular Economy Research.
  • Policies and Politics of Circular Economy
  • Policy Appraisals and Development; Regulation
  • Research on Business and Politics
     

Memberships and networks

CE Act, Working Group, Ministry of the Environment, member (2024 - 2026)

Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke) Circular Bioeconomy Stakeholder Advisory Board, member (2021 - 2025)

Strategic programme to promote a circular economy, Working Group, member, 2021

Ongoing projects

Selected publications 

Turunen, T., Mosoni, C., Kautto, P. 2026. Enhancing Critical Raw Materials Recovery in Micro E-Mobility: Regulatory Strategies for the EU. Waste Management & Research: The Journal for a Sustainable Circular Economy, Vol. 44, pp. 334-342.

Turunen, T., Horn, S., Kautto, P., Saarenaho, I., Suomalainen, E. 2026. Circular economy strategies for critical raw materials management. Helsinki: Finnish Environment Institute. Action Recommendations. UrbanSymbiosis & UC-Mobility.

Entsalo, H. Kalimo, H., Kautto, P., Turunen, T. 2023. Analysing regulatory instruments in sustainability transitions: a combined ’intervention points’ and ‘roles of law’ approach to the European Union’s Ecodesign framework. Sustainable Production and Consumption, Vol. 42, pp. 125-137.

Lifset, R., Kalimo, H., Jukka, A., Kautto, P., Miettinen, M. 2023. Restoring the incentives for eco-design in extended producer responsibility: The challenges for eco-modulation. Waste Management, Vol. 168, pp.  189-201.

Pitkänen, K., Karppinen, T.K.M., Kautto, P., Pirtonen, H., Salmenperä, H., Savolahti, H. Schubin, E., Myllymaa, T. 2023. How to measure the social sustainability of the circular economy? Developing and piloting social circular economy indicators in Finland. Journal of Cleaner Production, 136238.

Lazarevic, D., Salo, H., Kautto, P. 2022. Circular economy policies and their transformative outcomes: The transformative intent of Finland's strategic policy programme, Journal of Cleaner Production, Volume 379, Part 2, 134892.