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        Heidi Tuhkanen

        Senior Expert (Environmental Management Programme)

      • Role(s): Environmental Economics Programme
      • Expertise: Local level and urban sustainability, sustainability and environmental management (systems, indicators, and tools), Climate change mitigation and adaptation, marine issues
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      Heidi Tuhkanen is a senior expert at SEI Tallinn.

      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, adaptation, and resilience, her work has also included the interaction between the private sector, society, and the environment.

      Heidi holds a Master´s degree in Urban Environmental Management (MSc) from Wageningen University (NL) and is currently working on her PhD at University of Helsinki in the Urban Environmental Policy research group. Heidi is member of the Cicero-led Expert Network on Second Opinions (ENSO) which provides Second Opinions of Green Bond Frameworks, the IRDR International Centre of Excellence on Transforming Development and Disaster Risk hosted in SEI Asia, and the Advisory Group in the SEI Gender, Social Equality and Poverty Programme.

      Topics of interest include ecosystem approach, nature based solutions, disaster risk reduction, equity, urban governance, corporate sustainability, environmental management, green bonds, and local level capacity building.

      Expertise: Local level and urban sustainability, sustainability and environmental management (systems, indicators, and tools), Climate change adaptation and mitigation, disaster risk reduction.

       

       

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      Q&A: Heidi Tuhkanen on analyzing the “trade-offs” between development and disaster risk reduction

      Senior expert Heidi Tuhkanen discusses the initial results from a case study analyzing trade-offs between development and disaster risk reduction.

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      • 18 October 2017
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      Publications by Heidi Tuhkanen

      • Redistributing resilience? Deliberate transformation and political capabilities in post-Haiyan Tacloban
      • Guidelines for planning equitable disaster resilient development
      • Matchmaking power: expanding climate finance for off-grid solar electricity
      • Green bonds: a mechanism for bridging the adaptation gap?
      • A framework for transforming the relationship between development and disaster risk
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      Perspectives by Heidi Tuhkanen

      • Prioritising social equity in disaster recovery and resilience
      • What is holding back the promise of nature-based solutions for climate change adaptation?
      • Aislamiento resalta el valor de espacios verdes en las ciudades
      • Lockdown highlights the value of green space in cities
      • How better hydropower planning can avert future disasters on the Mekong

      Featured stories with Heidi Tuhkanen

      • Kliimariskidega kohanemine Läänemere regioonis
      • Q&A with Heidi Tuhkanen on climate risk adaptation in the Baltic Sea Region
      • COVID-19
      • The Ocean and Biodiversity
      • Sustainable production meets sustainable consumption
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      Projects and tools with Heidi Tuhkanen

      • ClimVis
      • Iniciativa de SEI sobre igualdad de género, equidad social y pobreza
      • B.Green: Roheline kiirtee – innovaatiline rohetaristu planeerimine
      • B.Green - Baltic Green Urban Infrastructure Planning
      • SEI initiative on gender equality, social equity and poverty
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