Since joining SEI in 2008, Heidi has worked on a broad set of sustainable development issues involving governance, decision-making processes, and assessments. Heidi’s academic background is in urban sustainability, but in addition to urban climate mitigation and adaptation, urban green areas, and disaster risk, her work has also included the interaction between the private sector, society, and the environment. Heidi has also been involved in a series of projects related to the economic valuation of the marine environment around the Baltic Sea and participates in the BalticSTERN research network (Baltic Systems Tools for Ecological-economic evaluation: a Research Network).
Heidi holds a Master´s degree in Urban and Environmental Management (MSc) from Wageningen University (NL).
Areas of focus include ecosystem services/ecosystem approach, corporate sustainability, policy making decision support, supply chain governance, sustainable development goals, marine issues, capacity building within local authorities, disaster risk, environmental management.
- How do we prioritize when making decisions about development and disaster risk? A look at five key trade-offs
- Transforming the relationship between development and disaster risk: Insights from a year of research
- Valuing the benefits of improved marine environmental quality under multiple stressors
- Valuing the commons: An international study on the recreational benefits of the Baltic Sea
- Good environmental status in the Baltic Sea through regional coordination and capacity building via economic and social analysis
- SPICE - Implementation and development of key components for the assessment of Status, Pressures and Impacts, and Social and Economic evaluation in the Baltic Sea marine region
- NATTOURS – sustainable urban nature routes using new IT solutions
- HELCOM TAPAS - Development of HELCOM tools and approaches for the Second Holistic Assessment of the Ecosystem Health of the Baltic Sea
- Estonian Climate Adaptation Strategy for Infrastructure and Energy
- SEI initiative on producer to consumer sustainability (P2CS)