Petrus Kautto

Development Manager

PhD (Organisations & Management, Aalto University School of Business)

Contact information

Email: firstname.lastname@syke.fi
Tel. +358 (0)400 148850

Finnish Environment Institute (Syke)
Circular economy solutions
Latokartanonkaari 11
FI-00790 Helsinki, Finland

Tasks and research interests

• Business and politics relations
• Politics and potentials of product oriented environmental policies
• Evaluation and impact assessment

Current projects

Nanosafety on trial(s): Understanding politics and potentials of product oriented environmental policies, 2012-2015 (Academy of Finland, project No. 260492)

Previous projects

• Linking Impact Assessment Instruments to Sustainability Expertise, LIAISE (FP7, 2009-2014)
• POlicy Influence of iNdicaTors, POINT (FP7, 2008-2011)
• Development and application of a standardized methodology for the PROspective Sustainability assessment of Technologies, PROSUITE (FP7, 2009-2013)
• Impact assessment of legal proposals, plans and programmes at the Ministry of the Environment (Ministry of the Environment, 2011-2013)
• Introducing Environmental Compliance Monitoring Fees: Impact Assessment (Ministry of the Environment, 2011-2012)
• Environmental management and sustainable use of nanocellulose (CLEEN Ltd., 2011-2012)
• Innovations in the Public Sector, Pub-I (The Advisory Board for Sectoral Research, 2010-2011)
• Impact assessment of Finnish Waste Legislation Reform (Ministry of the Environment, 2009)
• Memberships in various working groups, expert groups and associations etc. in the fields of product oriented environmental policy, waste policy and evaluation since 2003.

Publications

• Publications in Google Scholar

Selected recent papers

• Podhora, Aranka & Helming, Katharina & Adenäuer, Lucie & Heckelei, Thomas & Kautto, Petrus & Reidsma, Pytrik & Rennings, Klaus & John Turnpenny, John & Jansen, Jacques: The policy-relevancy of impact assessment tools: evaluating nine years of European research funding. Environmental Science and Policy, Vol. 31, August 2013, pp. 85–95.
• Rinne, Janne & Lyytimäki, Jari & Kautto, Petrus: From sustainability to well-being: Lessons learned from the use of sustainable development indicators in national and EU level. Ecological Indicators, 2013.
• Kivimaa, Paula & Kautto, Petrus: Making or breaking environmental innovation? Technological change and innovation markets in the pulp and paper industry. Management Research Review, 2010, Vol. 33, No 4, pp. 289-305.
• Kautto, Petrus: Nokia as an Environmental Policy Actor - Evolution of Collaborative Corporate Political Activity in a Multinational Company. Journal of Common Market Studies, 2009, Vol. 47, No 1, pp. 103-125.
• Kautto, Petrus: Industry - government interaction in the preparation of a new directive: Nokia, industry associations and EuP. European Environment, 2007, Vol. 17, No 2, pp. 79-91.

Selected other publications / books and book chapters

• Lähtinen, Katja & Valve, Helena & Jouttijärvi, Timo & Kautto, Petrus & Koskela, Sirkka & Leskinen, Pekka & Silvo, Kimmo & Pitkänen, Marja & Kangas, Heli & Tukiainen, Pauliina: Piecing together research needs: safety, environmental performance and regulatory issues of nanofibrillated cellulose (NFC). Helsinki: Cleen Oy (Cluster for Energy and Environment), 2012. MMEA Research Report nr D2.5.2.
• Kautto, Petrus: Julkisen sektorin ja yritysten vuorovaikutus ympäristöpolitiikassa [Interaction of companies and public sector in environmental policy]. In Joutsenvirta, Maria & Halme, Minna & Jalas, Mikko & Mäkinen, Jukka (eds.): Vastuullinen liiketoiminta kansainvälisessä maailmassa. Helsinki: Gaudeamus, 2011. pp. 174-183.
• Kautto, Petrus: Who holds the reins in Integrated Product Policy? An individual company as a target of regulation and as a policy maker. Helsinki: Helsinki School of Economics, 2008. Acta Universitatis Oeconomicae Helsingiensis A-339. Doctoral thesis.