| Academic degree: | Dr. | | Last name: | Seppälä | | First name: | Jyri | | Responsible for: | | | Organization/Institute: | Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE) | | Department: | | | Position: | Research Manager | | Street, Number, POB: | Mechelinkatu 34 | | Postal code, City: | Helsinki | | State: | | | Country: | FINLAND | | Phone: | | | Fax: | | | E-mail address: | jyri.seppala@ymparisto.fi | | Url: | http://www.environment.fi/syke | | Curriculum vitae: | Jyri Seppälä was born on October 16, 1959, in Helsinki, Finland. After taking a master’s degree in the Department of Civil Engineering, at Helsinki University of Technology (HUT) he worked at an environmental consultants firm, Paavo Ristola Ltd.
His main area of specialization was environment modelling (water, soil and air) for environmental protection in industry.
From 1989 he worked at the Finnish Environmental Administration starting as an inspector. The work included preparation of waste water permits for industry and development of risk analysis and environmental management systems for companies.
From 1995 to 2001, he was Head of the Environmental Management Group at the Finnish Environment Institute (FEI), an R&D centre operating under the Ministry of the Environment. The aim of the group was to perform complete environmental impact assessments of different human activities and sectors (industry, municipalities etc.) in order to increase eco-efficiency and to enhance integrated product policy.
His main interest has been in developing life cycle impact assessment (LCIA) with the help of decision analysis, which was a field of his licentiate thesis completed in the System Analysis Laboratory at HUT in 1998.
Since 2002 he has been Research Manager of the Environmental Technology Programme in the Finnish Environment Institute. | | Areas of interest: | | life cycle impact assessment (LCIA) | | |
| | Articles: | 13 LCA (6) 477-486 (2008), The role of atmospheric dispersion models and ecosystem sensitivity in the determination of characterisation factors for acidifying and eutrophying emissions in LCIA - [full paper at: http://www.springerlink.com/content/112849/]
12 LCA (7) 464-469 (2007), On the Meaning of Fuzzy Approach and Normalisation in Life Cycle Impact Assessment (see this issue, Güereca et al., 488-496)
11 LCA (6) 403-416 (2006), Country-dependent Characterisation Factors for Acidification and Terrestrial Eutrophication Based on Accumulated Exceedance as an Impact Category Indicator (14 pp)
9 LCA (2) 90-100 (2004), Eutrophication of Aquatic Ecosystems - A New Method for Calculating the Potential Contributions of Nitrogen and Phosphorus (11 pp)
6 LCA (6) 339-343 (2001), Life Cycle Impact Assessment of Pollutants Causing Aquatic Eutrophication
6 LCA (4) 211-218 (2001), On the Meaning of the Distance-to-Target Weighting Method and Normalisation in Life Cycle Impact Assessment
5 LCA (2) 65-67 (2000), Towards Region-Specific, European Fate Factors for Airborne Nitrogen Compounds Causing Aquatic Eutrophication *
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