Nora Fagerholm

Datos Biográficos

ID3100517
NOMBRENora Fagerholm
NOMBRESNora
APELLIDOFagerholm
FIRMAFAGERHOLM N
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Turku
ORCID0000-0001-5020-0746
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS41
TOTAL DE CITAS113
TOTAL COMO AUTOR41
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2011
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H7

  • Eudaimonic well-being in relation to urban nature

    Open AccessJoha Järekari, Salla Eilola et al.ARTICLEEcosystems and People2026

    Urban nature is increasingly recognized as essential for mental well-being. This study examines eudaimonic well-being – value-based, deeper well-being – by exploring how nature supports self-acceptance, autonomy, purpose in life, personal growth, good social relations, and environmental mastery among users of preventive psychosocial services provided by mental health associations. A creative writing method was developed to capture personal, well-…

  • Landscape planning for transformative change in social-ecological systems

    Open AccessChristian Albert, Christopher M Raymond et al.ARTICLEEcosystems and People2026

    In Europe, landscape planning has demonstrated its capacity to guide more sustainable landscape development and support biodiversity and nature’s contributions to people (NCP), yet its potential to enable transformative change at the scale and pace required remains insufficiently understood. This Perspective critically explores how landscape planning may need to transform in order to act as a catalyst for achieving transformative change in social…

  • Exposure to greenness and physical activity behavior

    Open AccessJooa Norha, Arpa Aishwarya et al.ARTICLEHealth & Place2026Referencias: 4

    While higher exposure to greenness based on NDVI was associated with less MVPA and transportation PA on workdays, the changes in exposure to greenness were not associated with the changes in PA

  • Policy and regulatory measures supporting the implementation of nature-based solutions in urban stormwater management of private properties

    Open AccessAino Saarinen, Piia Leskinen et al.ARTICLEAMBIO2026Referencias: 28

    Despite widely existing consensus that nature-based solutions (NbS) provide competitive and sustainable alternatives for grey infrastructure in urban water management, the implementation of NbS is lagging behind current needs. This study explores if and how regulatory measures can promote NbS adoption on privately owned land. Policy document analysis of Finnish stormwater programmes gathers how NbS are considered at municipal-level, key informant…

  • Why do people visit or avoid public green spaces? Insights from an online map-based survey in Bochum, Germany

    Open AccessClaudia Romelli, Carl C Anderson et al.ARTICLEEcosystems and People2025

    Public green spaces (PGS) have the capacity to fulfil the needs and interests of diverse groups of urban dwellers and thus contribute to their well-being. However, PGS designers and managers usually lack spatially disaggregated information on how PGS is used, by whom, and for what reasons. This study aims to assess spatial PGS visitation and avoidance patterns and their respective determinants using the city of Bochum, Germany as a case study. Th…

  • Exploring values, rules, and knowledge around traditional hunting in a rapidly developing society

    Open AccessTobias Plieninger, Ragnheiður Bogadóttir et al.ARTICLEPeople and Nature2025

    Consideration of traditional practices of natural resource management in decision‐making is crucial to meet the challenges of the world’s intersecting sustainability crises. However, knowledge of the role that such practices play in developed societies is scant, especially in Europe. This study investigates the persistence of traditional hunting practices in the context of the Faroe Islands. Specifically, it explores the values, rules, and knowle…

  • Nature facilitates eudaimonic well‐being through promoting connection with self and others

    Open AccessJoha Järekari, Nora Fagerholm et al.ARTICLEPeople and Nature2025

    Urban nature is an important source of cultural ecosystem services (CES), providing well‐being benefits. Currently, well‐being is often conceptualized too narrowly to capture the more intangible benefits of urban nature. The concept of eudaimonic well‐being takes a long‐term, value‐based approach to the well‐being effects of the human–nature connection. There is a recognized need to study the deep, qualitative benefits of CES, as well as to under…

  • Operational principles for fostering transformative qualities and capacities in higher education sustainability science and practice

    Open AccessNora Fagerholm, Neil Coles et al.ARTICLESustainability Science2025Referencias: 21

    Education for sustainability is widely recognised as a critical pathway for driving the transformations needed to address today’s polycrisis. Despite growing theoretical and conceptual advancements in sustainability education, current approaches have not achieved the deep systemic changes required. While university networks and individual institutions increasingly integrate sustainability into their education, concerns persist that transformative…

  • Balancing landscape values and tourism choices

    Open AccessLiliana Solé, Kyle P Hearn et al.ARTICLEAMBIO2025Referencias: 56

    The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Biosphere Reserves aim to balance nature and human coexistence, but increasing tourism challenges landscape management. The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) stresses the importance of understanding stakeholder values for effective management of natural spaces through a typology of intrinsic, instrumental, and relat…

  • D Geovisualizations and Participatory Land-Use Planning – Planners’ Perspectives from Finland

    Open AccessHannu Linkola, Nora Fagerholm et al.ARTICLEPlanning Theory & Practice2025Referencias: 5

    Our article discusses the use of 3D geovisualizations in participatory planning in Finnish municipalities. The data from a survey and interviews among the municipality-level planners is analyzed from the perspectives of three discursive spaces: representational, experiential, and institutional. Our study shows that 3D geovisualizations are regarded as attractive tools, but their usage is sporadic, and the benefits are mostly evaluated on the basi…

  • Key factors to enhance efficacy of 3D digital environments for transformative landscape and urban planning

    Open AccessAdrienne Grêt-Regamey, Nora FagerholmARTICLELandscape and Urban Planning2024

    The unprecedented expansion of digital technologies has led to a rapid increase in the development and application of 3D digital environments for landscape and urban planning in the past two decades. Considering the significant challenges in guiding human societies towards sustainability, these technologies must not only assist decision-makers in adapting to changes but promote fast, transformative shifts in the relationship between human societi…

  • Predicting context-sensitive urban green space quality to support urban green infrastructure planning

    Open AccessAnna Kajosaari, Kamyar Hasanzadeh et al.ARTICLELandscape and Urban Planning2024

    Urban green spaces (UGSs) support human health and well-being in diverse ways. In addition to their availability and accessibility, also the quality of UGSs is relevant for understanding human-environment interactions between urban populations and their local UGS. However, data on UGS quality are rarely available with the geographic coverage required for spatial decision making and urban green infrastructure (UGI) planning and management. This st…

  • Bridging senses of place and mobilities scholarships to inform social-ecological systems governance

    Open AccessSarah Gottwald, Iga Kołodyńska et al.ARTICLEApplied Geography2024

    Uncertainty and change are increasingly commonplace as communities respond to impacts of social-ecological change including climate change, and dangerous levels of pollution. Given the extent of these crises, new approaches are needed to support responses. Here we identify challenges and discuss insights that the nexus of Senses of place (SoP) and mobilities research offers in navigating such uncertainty. We conducted a two-round Delphi, followed…

  • Extracting sensory experiences and cultural ecosystem services from actively crowdsourced descriptions of everyday lived landscapes

    Open AccessManuel F Baer, Flurina M Wartmann et al.ARTICLEEcosystems and People2024

    What cultural ecosystem services (CES) do people perceive in their immediate surroundings, and what sensory experiences are linked to these ecosystem services? And how are these CES and experiences expressed in natural language? In this study, we used data generated through a gamified application called Window Expeditions, where people uploaded short descriptions of landscapes they were able to experience through their windows during the COVID-19…

  • Revisiting the sustainability science research agenda

    Open AccessMesfin Sahle, Shruti Ashish Lahoti et al.ARTICLESustainability Science2024Citada por: 7Referencias: 22

    Identifying research gaps and priorities is paramount to advance sustainability science and contribute to a sustainable future. This editorial contributes to this effort by contemplating the sustainability science research agenda and aligning it with recent changes in global dynamics. Drawing on consultations with the editorial board members of the Sustainability Science journal and a review of relevant literature, we identified 12 key research t…

  • Maptionnaire

    Open AccessMarketta Kyttä, Nora Fagerholm et al.CHAPTEREvaluating Participatory Mapping…2023

  • D visualisations for communicative urban and landscape planning

    Open AccessSalla Eilola, Kaisa Jaalama et al.ARTICLELandscape and Urban Planning2023

    Public participation and collaboration supported by the opportunities that digital technologies offer are prolific themes in urban and landscape planning. In the past two decades, there has been a growing interest in the capacity of 3D visualisations to support citizen and stakeholder engagement in communicative planning processes. However, the technical advances of 3D visualisations still outstrip the current understanding of their benefits, app…

  • Disconnection from nature

    Open AccessThomas Beery, Anton Stahl Olafsson et al.ARTICLEPeople and Nature2023

    The human relationship with nature is a topic that has been explored throughout human history. More recently, the idea of connection to nature has merged as an important transdisciplinary field of study. Despite increased scholarly attention to connection to nature, the notion of disconnection from nature remains undertheorized and understudied. In this perspective article, we argue for a more comprehensive understanding of disconnection from nat…

  • Self-assessment in student’s learning and developing teaching in geoinformatics – case of Geoportti self-assessment tool

    Open AccessNora Fagerholm, Eliisa Lotsari et al.ARTICLEJournal of Geography in Higher…2023Referencias: 1

    In successful geoinformatics education, students’ active role in the learning process, e.g. through applying self-assessment, show an increasing interest but the evidence of benefits and challenges of self-assessment are sporadic. In this article, we examine the usefulness of an online self-assessment tool developed for geoinformatics education. We gathered data in two Finnish universities on five courses (n = 11–73 students/course) between 2019 …

  • Comparing landscape value patterns between participatory mapping and geolocated social media content across Europe

    Open AccessAnton Stahl Olafsson, Ross S Purves et al.ARTICLELandscape and Urban Planning2022

    In this study, we bring together participatory mapping and analysis of geolocated social media content from the Flickr platform in an assessment of similarities and differences in their utility for landscape value elicitation. We do so in a Pan-European context comparing types of landscape values and their spatial patterns across 19 case sites in 11 European countries. Across these sites, we find great variety in volume, types and spatial pattern…

  • Navigating overgrazing and cultural values through narratives and participatory mapping

    Open AccessLaura Verbrugge, Gunnar Bjarnason et al.ARTICLEEcosystems and People2022

    Long-term livestock grazing has shaped landscapes, biodiversity, societies, cultures, and economies in the North Atlantic over time. However, overgrazing has become a major environmental sustainability challenge for this region, covering the Faroe Islands, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, and Scotland. The objective of this study was to elicit narratives and spatial patterns of local people’s management preferences for sheep grazing in the Faroe Islan…

  • Public participation geographical information systems (PPGIS)

    Open AccessNora Fagerholm, María García-Martín et al.ARTICLEGAIA - Ecological Perspectives…2022

    Participatory mapping is a useful approach to engage the general public and stakeholders to communicate place-based values, behaviour, preferences and observations. The approach informs social-ecological research and land-use planning. In land-use planning, PPGIS is applicable, for example, in initial phases or for assessing project outcomes. This toolkit gives guidance on participatory mapping surveys

  • Radical changes are needed for transformations to a good Anthropocene

    Open AccessTimon Mcphearson, Christopher M Raymond et al.ARTICLEnpj Urban Sustainability2021

    The scale, pace, and intensity of human activity on the planet demands radical departures from the status quo to remain within planetary boundaries and achieve sustainability. The steering arms of society including embedded financial, legal, political, and governance systems must be radically realigned and recognize the connectivity among social, ecological, and technological domains of urban systems to deliver more just, equitable, sustainable, …

  • Sense of presence and sense of place in perceiving a 3D geovisualization for communication in urban planning – Differences introduced by prior familiarity with the place

    Open AccessKaisa Jaalama, Nora Fagerholm et al.ARTICLELandscape and Urban Planning2021

    Technological development towards increased visual quality and accessibility has made photorealistic 3D geovisualizations an interesting tool for communication in urban planning. Particularly the ability to support perception is important in assessing 3D geovisualizations’ effectiveness for communication. We applied both the concept of sense of presence, i.e. effectiveness of the medium, and sense of place, i.e. meanings and affordances, in a use…

  • Lessons learned from participatory land use planning with high-resolution remote sensing images in Tanzania

    Open AccessSalla Eilola, Niina Käyhkö et al.ARTICLELand Use Policy2021Referencias: 46

    Participatory mapping (PM) solutions have become common in many sectors of society to enhance engagement of the local communities in planning processes. Especially in data scarce regions, like Africa, PM that captures local knowledge in spatially explicit form is an important tool for integrating previously non-existent spatial knowledge in to collaborative planning. Despite the increasing usage of PM solutions, there still lies a gap in our know…