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        Kaja Peterson

        Programme Director, Senior Expert (Sustainable Development Programme)

      • Expertise: environmental policy, impact assessment
      • kaja.peterson@sei.org
      • +372 62 76 104
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      Kaja Peterson has been working at the SEI Tallinn since 1993. She is a senior researcher and since 2000, the director of the Sustainable Development Programme and since 2016, leading also the centre’s Climate and Energy Programme.

      Key competence

      Her fields of interest and research include environmental policy, specifically environmental assessment issues, such as the methods of impact assessment, environmental management, the process of public involvement and the consideration of results of public involvement in decision-making. She has published several books, guidelines and papers on these issues and is also a respected lecturer on these topics.

      Education

      She graduated from the University of Tartu, Estonia, in 1987 as a Biologist-Ecologist and from the Victorian University of Manchester, UK, in 1992 as an Environmental Scientist and defended her PhD in January 2011 on Environmental Assessment.

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      Publications by Kaja Peterson

      • Seitsme Euroopa rohelise pealinna võrdlus: lävendtegevused ja initsiatiivid
      • Bioeconomy pathways at national and regional levels
      • Policy dialogue on a bioeconomy for sustainable development in the Baltic Sea region
      • Keskkonnamõju hindamise uuring 2019
      • Eesti ökoloogilise maksureformi realiseerumine
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      Featured stories with Kaja Peterson

      • New recommendations for better water management in the Baltic Sea
      • Poliitikasoovitused Läänemere veemajanduse paremaks korraldamiseks
      • Q&A: Kaja Peterson on reviewing Bosnia and Herzegovina’s environmental performance
      • How can Estonia’s transport and housing sectors contribute to cleaner air and a safer climate?
      • Highlighting urban natural treasures in Tallinn and Helsinki
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      Projects and tools with Kaja Peterson

      • ConnectedByBiobord
      • ConnectedByBiobord
      • QGasSP
      • QGasSP
      • Development of the Environmental Strategy and Action Plan of Bosnia and Herzegovina
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