Eeva FURMAN

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Professor Eeva Furman is director of the Environment Policy Centre, Finnish Environment Institute www.syke.fi, chair of Finland’s Sustainable Development Expert Panel www.kestavyyspaneeli.fi/en and member of the IGS who wrote the UN’s Global Sustainable Development Report2019. Her activities, projects, presentations and positions of trust are in the fields of governance of sustainable development & systems transformation, biodiversity & health, ecosystem services & forests and nature-based solutions & urbanisation. She runs national and international research projects or their parts such as the “Politics, practices and the transformative potential of sustainable diets”, “Towards Eco-Welfare State: Orchestrating for Systemic Impact”, “To Ally Technology, Nature and Society for integrated urban water management” and “Knowledge & Learning mechanism on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services”. She led the “Gap Analysis of implementing Agenda2030 in Finland” Avain2030, funded by the Prime Minister´s office in 2016. Furman was also part of the support team for the 2019 “Developmental evaluation of Finland’s sustainable development policy and transformation pathway”, Polku2030, also funded by the Prime Minister´s office. In addition to several advisory boards and evaluation groups, Furman has written peer reviewed international articles, reports, books for broad audience, blogs, www-snapshots, and given podcasts and interviews. She has received honors and prices for her work. .