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SYKE - Finnish Environment Institute (Finland)
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The Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE) is the national research and development institute within the environmental administration of Finland. SYKE carries out research on the environmental changes, their causes and possible ways to solve them and restore the environment as well as analysis of environmental policy. Additional tasks of SYKE include monitoring and assessment of the state of the environment, pollution loads and use changes, as well as management of water resources. The institute develops, assesses and applies environmental models and decision support systems to guide the use and protection of the natural resources. In recent years SYKE has particularly focused on the development of integrated projects that combine several disciplines and approaches. Such studies have been undertaken e.g. in the field of evaluation of environmental policy instruments, climate change and in several projects supporting integrated watershed management.
At SYKE there is a strong emphasis to provide scientific support to the decision-making processes concerning large-scale environmental problems like biodiversity, air pollution, climate change, and the effects of agriculture and silviculture on aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. This work is carried out in close co-operation with the users of environmental information. SYKE employs nearly 600 people, more than 370 of which are university-educated scientists. The annual budget of SYKE is about 36 million Euro and 55% of it is financed through direct budget allocations. The following research programmes of SYKE cover both natural sciences and environmental social sciences:
- Global Change
- Contaminants
- Protection of the Baltic Sea
- Biodiversity
- Environmental Policy
- Environmental Technology
- Integrated River Basin Management
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For general information:
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Helsinki research site:
Mechelininkatu 34 a
00260 Helsinki
Finland
Tel.: +358-20-490 2770
Fax: +358-20-490 2790
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