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        Heidi Tuhkanen

        Senior Expert (Environmental Management Programme)

      • SEI Tallinn,
      • Role(s): Environmental Management Programme
      • Expertise: Local level and urban sustainability, sustainability and environmental management (systems, indicators, and tools), climate change mitigation and adaptation, marine issues
      • heidi.tuhkanen@sei.org
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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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      Heidi Tuhkanen in the media

      • Pealinn (17.05.2022) FOTOD JA VIDEO Putukaväila roheala saab peagi sensorid, millega mõõdetakse temperatuuri, suhtelist õhuniiskust ja sademeid (Pollinator Highway in Tallinn will soon get sensors that measure temperature, relative humidity and precipitation)

      Heidi Tuhkanen's presentations

      • ESPON Peer Learning Workshop on Climate change strategies in Baltic Sea Region: "Integrating climate adaptation and disaster risk reduction in the Baltic Sea Region. Insights from the CASCADE project"

      Publications by Heidi Tuhkanen

      • Governance and everyday adaptations? Examining the disconnect between planned and autonomous adaptation through justice outcomes
      • Principles for just and equitable nature-based solutions
      • Health and wellbeing in cities - Cultural contributions from urban form in the Global South context
      • Assessing inequalities in wellbeing at a neighbourhood scale in low-middle-income-country secondary cities and their implications for long-term livability
      • Citizen science and the Sustainable Development Goals in low and middle income country cities
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      Perspectives by Heidi Tuhkanen

      • Latest report on global disaster risk stresses need for transformative approaches to deal with new risk landscapes
      • Is the new IPCC report a game changer for adaptation?
      • How to leverage the power of digital participatory tools in urban planning
      • Prioritising social equity in disaster recovery and resilience
      • What is holding back the promise of nature-based solutions for climate change adaptation?
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      Featured stories with Heidi Tuhkanen

      • Regions4Climate to test innovative solutions for climate change adaptation
      • The promises and pitfalls of nature-based solutions
      • A tale of two cities: inequalities in urban wellbeing in the Global South
      • The role of international cooperation in disaster risk reduction
      • Urban October 2021
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      Projects and tools with Heidi Tuhkanen

      • Regions4Climate
      • Iniciativa de SEI sobre igualdad de género, equidad social y pobreza
      • SEI Initiative on Gender Equality, Social Equity and Poverty
      • SEI Initiative on City Health and Well-being
      • BalticClimate
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