Climate change has many unpredictable impacts on Finland's forests. We developed an impact assessment framework suitable for examining multi-hazard risks in forests. Preparing for and adapting to the ......

The feeling of security can be shaken easily. For example, during last few weeks, the rapid flow of refugees and the management of the Eastern border of Finland have increased uncertainty. On the eve ......

A cognitive understanding of climate change is different from an embodied, physical, and emotional one. Seeing images or videos of melting ice is not as powerful as touching the ice and feeling it mel......

An international seminar entitled Policy implications of Arctic cross-border climate change impacts was held on May this year. The main emphasis was to explore how climate change impacts in the Arctic......

Science, art and architecture come together at the Venice Architecture Biennale. The Finnish pavilion brings water consumption and nutrient recycling into the international architectural debate for th......

It is time to start paying attention to the EU Environmental Footprint as it has a potential of becoming the only acceptable way to substantiate environmental claims of products and services on the co......

We must adapt to climate change, and not only to the biophysical changes that occur within the borders of Finland, but to a whole range of possible cross-border societal impacts that are transmitted t......

SYKE’s Professors Eeva Primmer and Mikael Hildén consider Finland’s role in the EU Forest Strategy in their Ratkaisuja blog: Has Finland taken leadership, or has the lobbying resulted in fragmentation......

Little things together make a huge difference and clean environment. Further, responsible operators undoubtedly attract conscious visitors better than their less responsible competitors. Considering t......

Finnish Environment Institute (Syke) is a multidisciplinary research and expert institute. Our most important task is to solve society’s most burning questions that have an impact on the environment....

Sustainability transition requires addressing wicked complex bundles of problems and new unforeseen risks. Sustainability transition redistributes benefits and impacts - and forces us to give up our o......

Facebook We publish interesting environmental news and events on Syke’s Facebook . In addition to that Syke provides contents from different topics and projects to many Facebook pages: ...