A5073013008- Environmental law and policy
- International Environmental Law and Policies
- Coastal and Marine Management
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- International Maritime Law Issues
- European and International Law Studies
- Transboundary Water Resource Management
- Human Rights and Development
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
- Arctic and Russian Policy Studies
- Water resources management and optimization
- Water Governance and Infrastructure
- Environmental Conservation and Management
- Research in Social Sciences
- Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
- Regulation and Compliance Studies
- Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
- Environmental Policies and Emissions
- Complex Systems and Decision Making
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Water Quality and Pollution Assessment
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- European Criminal Justice and Data Protection
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
University of Eastern Finland
2013-2025
Finland University
2013-2025
Finnish Environment Institute
2021-2023
Environmental Law Institute
2023
University of Helsinki
2019-2022
University of Gothenburg
2017-2021
Finnish Medical Foundation
2021
Aarhus University
2021
Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters
2015-2016
Abstract The scale, pace, and intensity of human activity on the planet demands radical departures from status quo to remain within planetary boundaries achieve sustainability. steering arms society including embedded financial, legal, political, governance systems must be radically realigned recognize connectivity among social, ecological, technological domains urban deliver more just, equitable, sustainable, resilient futures. We present five key principles requiring fundamental cognitive,...
The speed and uncertainty of environmental change in the Anthropocene challenge capacity coevolving social–ecological–technological systems (SETs) to adapt or transform these changes. Formal government legal structures further constrain adaptive our SETs. However, new, self-organized forms governance are emerging at multiple scales natural resource-based Adaptive involves private public sectors as well formal informal institutions, fill gaps traditional roles states. While new emerging, they...
Abstract EU environmental law increasingly adopts an impact-based regulatory strategy that places biophysical sciences in a significant role not only designing regulation but also interpreting and implementing the law. While crucial for effectiveness of law, such creates challenges legitimacy This article traces shift from behaviour-based to this context analyses latter light Lon L. Fuller’s eight classic criteria rule expose challenges. Focusing on Water Framework Directive Land-use Change...
Science-policy-society interfaces (SPSI) are defined as social processes that encompass relations between scientists and other actors in the policy process, allowing for exchange, co-evolution, joint construction of knowledge to enrich decision-making (Van Den Hove, 2007). When optimal, SPSIs support sound formulation, implementation, adaptation processes, can help address different challenges, such incomplete knowledge, unpredictability, uncertainty, ambiguity. In this way, improve...
A policy coherence evaluation framework: supporting sustainable ocean governance and the European Green DealCoherent marine policies are crucial for protection of our oceans progress toward multiple targets, such as those established in Deal. As many environmental challenges pressures interconnected, there is a need approaches that overcome shared barriers to management, leverage synergies towards joint action, identify opportunities cooperation across areas sectors. Over several decades,...
Historically, Finnish rivers supported vital populations of migratory salmonids. Presently, these species are more or less endangered due to extensive damming and hydropower production. In this article, we study the main legal scientific drivers for re-evaluating some existing operations in Finland. We argue that there is a need re-evaluation on basis obligations stemming largely from EU law new knowledge. Theoretically, our setting opens up classical adaptive governance problem how address...
Around the globe, coastal communities are increasingly coping with changing environmental conditions as a result of climate change and ocean acidification, including sea level rise, more severe storms, decreasing natural resources ecosystem services. A adaptation response is to engineer coast in perilous often doomed attempt preserve status quo. In long term, however, most nations will need transition approaches based on ecological resilience—that is, zone management that allows absorb adapt...
Abstract While innovative approaches to urban transformations are increasingly proposed, scholars often overlook challenges faced by endogenous actors (e.g. planners) tasked with taking action within non-ideal, real-world settings. Here we argue that an ‘inside’ view of (focused on judgment in practice) is needed complement existing ‘outside’ views assessment), where the feasibility becomes a central concern. This recasts discretised perspective. It suggests transformation pathways as both...
Legal decision-making often relies on scientific knowledge and information of other kinds, not least in environmental law where legal institutions use modeling to, for example, project expected effects projects when approving or denying permits. In this paper, using the problem-feeding model interdisciplinarity, we analyze relationship as an exchange problems solutions between different communities expertise. Drawing recent examples from Finland, to explore conditions under which...
The achievement of a radical global reduction greenhouse gases requires legal-institutional setting capable facilitating such transition on wide range renewable technologies. This paper identifies and critically evaluates the key institutional, procedural substantive legal mechanisms or preventing sustainable production blue energy with Finland as case study country. focus is offshore wind power hydropower. While we approach from perspective an EU member state, simultaneously shed light...
The role of law is arguably key importance in rapid sustainability transition. However, neither past nor current transition research explicitly engages with relation to transition, and when it at all, adopts an instrumental view rather than a complex-systemic one. Similarly, there lack broad-ranging legal scholarship on the We argue that need bridge gap between support achievement goals, propose conceptual framework initiate such dialogue. various accelerating, braking steering roles plays...
Abstract Recent years have seen a massive development of geospatial sensing systems informing the use space. However, rarely do these inform transformation towards urban sustainability. Drawing on four global case examples, we conceptualize how passive and active should be harnessed to secure an inclusive, sustainable resilient transformation. We derive principles for stakeholders highlighting need iterative dialogue along loop, new modes governance enabling direct feeding sensed...
Abstract In both Sweden and Finland, water law has traditionally provided strong protection for hydropower operations by issuing permanent environmental licences. This national started to erode as a result of the requirement European Union (EU) Water Framework Directive (WFD) permit reviews improve ecological status rivers. light this dynamic between frameworks, article compares Swedish Finnish implementation WFD regarding existing operations. Whereas adopted comprehensive legislative policy...
Environmental justice sheds light on the distributive and procedural aspects of planning decision-making. We examined challenges arising from perspective environmental multi-level participatory governance by exploring aquatic environments in Helsinki Metropolitan Area. found three main potential responses to them. First, even though most Helsinki's shoreline is free and/or accessible road accordingly used actively people for recreational purposes, many parts are perceived as inaccessible,...
This article analyses the legal adaptive capacity for increasing sustainable fish aquaculture production in EU-Finland. Currently, is driven by global demand of fish, declining natural fisheries, food security and blue growth policies. At same time, environmental policies such as EU Water Framework Directive Marine Strategy set tightening legal-ecological requirements industry's nutrient emissions. Against this background, success related to – hope reconciling competing interests at sea boil...
The relationship between water security and governance across different water-using sectors remains under-researched. We apply the Organisation for Economic Co-operation Development's (OECD) Water Governance Indicator Framework with revised principles criteria to analyse three critical in Finland: bioeconomy, mining infrastructure. Our findings indicate that as a concept helps both assess clarify priorities, while well-functioning engagement of key actors is prerequisite broader security....
Abstract Global biodiversity loss is most severe in freshwaters, particularly river ecosystems. Hydropower one of the main culprits. While being promoted as a carbon free source renewable energy, hydropower disrupts flow, habitats, and biota rivers. Environmental policies programs seek to mitigate damage causes. Any policy action aiming at making utilization our rivers more sustainable must be ecologically, economically, legally feasible. We show that interdisciplinary feasibility mitigation...
Abstract Climate change is expected to significantly alter hydrological regimes globally as well locally. The impacts will encompass both long‐term changes in trends and short‐term extreme weather events. need anticipate adapt future challenge legal rules institutions, these are bound the past. This article analyses whether water law at international, EU national (Finland) levels can deal with changes. To this end, analysis draws on a case study of Finnish‐Russian transboundary Vuoksi River....
Abstract Sustainability transformations call forth new forms and systems of knowledge across society. However, few tools processes exist for promoting dialogue among different interests normative stances in co-creation. In this article, we build on the notion thought collectives to argue that understanding moderating tensions are necessary if sustainability science is provide successful solutions. Drawing an analysis between rival high-tech low-tech mobility food production sectors, discuss...