Pekka Kauppi, Professor of Environmental Science and Policy

Research:

Research Area

Research themes: "Environment across borders"

1. Carbon stocks in forests:

• How much carbon exists in forests ?
• How can forests serve climate policy ?

2.Industrial ecology:

• How to reduce waste ?

3. Nature protection:

• How to win public support to nature protection ?

Projects

1) Testing the "Boomerang hypothesis"

Since the 1990's, Finland has become one of the main importers of Russian wood. According to the "boomerang hypothesis" this increasing logging activity in northwest Russia will eventually harm the conservation efforts in Finland. Our three year effort to further investigate the hypothesis was launched in January 2006.

For more information, see the Boomerang Homepage

Sponsor: Academy of Finland

2) Transferring ecological impacts across national borders

A Nordic-Russian co-operation network to study transferred ecological impact within the region.

Sponsor: Nordic forest research co-operation committee (SNS)

3) IFEE

Indicator Framework for Eco-Efficiency (IFEE) is a part of the interdisciplinary 'Sustainable production and products' ( KETJU ) -program.

For more information, see the IFEE Homepage

Sponsor: Academy of Finland

4) Carbon footprint of forest industries (planning phase)

Sponsor: Stora Enso

Research Team

Core team in Viikki:

• see the Department homepage

Regarding IIASA:

• see the IIASA Forestry homepage