Matti Salo
Biographic Data
| ID | 1414643 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matti Salo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matti |
| FAMILY NAME | Salo |
| SIGNATURE | SALO M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Natural Resources Institute Finland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6328-5299 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Acting for biodiversity in a food value chain
Food production ranks among the primary causes of biodiversity decline. While drivers of this decline are relatively well known, the role of food value chains in contributing to efforts to mitigate the ongoing biodiversity decline remains poorly understood. Adopting a qualitative, grounded theory research design, we explore companies' biodiversity actions across a national food value chain. Empirically, we study 37 companies operating in the Finn…
Bridging biodiversity and regenerative development
The global decline of biodiversity demands transformative change that realigns human activity with planetary processes. Regenerative development may facilitate systemic transformation but remains underexamined in relation to biodiversity. We explore the relationship between biodiversity and place regeneration, conceptually aligning biodiversity enhancement and regenerative development. This requires adopting a refocused concept of biodiversity as…
The art of the ‘common good’
Cutting across many biophysical, institutional, cultural, and psychological boundaries, the quest for the ‘common good’ is an enduring legitimation for land-use planning interventions that go beyond statutory planning, even supporting the emergence of new commons. We analyse a body of qualitative and semi-quantitative data from a recent strategic land-use plan process in Southwest Finland, including a series of planning documents and the results …
Form and function in ecologizing spatial planning
We explore the emergence of ecological concerns in urban planning in Bogotá, Colombia. Although ecologizing urban planning practices has been a recurrent theme in Bogotá for around three decades, the sustainability problems the city is facing remain addressed in a rather abstract way. We analyze urban and spatial planning by triangulating data from interviews with local stakeholders, a close reading of policy documents, and participant observatio…
Neoliberal pathways to the bioeconomy
Global capitalism has changed the Earth system to the extent that the current epoch is called the Anthropocene. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), land use change has played a crucial role in this profound functional shift in the Earth system. The Convention on Biodiversity (CBD) and its follow-up processes have insisted the same regarding the persisting decline in biodiversity. To shed light on the institutional a…
Governmentality in evidence? Evolving rationalities of forest governance in Peru
During the recent decades, the effectiveness, sustainability and equity of environmental and resource policies have become increasingly intertwined in governance reforms. This situation with potentially inherent trade-offs has challenged not only the policy planners and implementers, but also the scientific and expert communities to justify the role of specific forms of scientific knowledge in the pursue of multiple and often conflicting objectiv…
The Nordic societies and the development of the data centre industry
While attempts to conceptualise the future course of societal development often emphasise the high-level integration and blurring of boundaries between physical and digital space, digital transformation has already made current societies highly dependent on the flawless functioning of the digital infrastructures built globally around data centres. This study provides a comprehensive analysis of the recent emergence and maturation of the Nordic da…
Reterritorialization practices and strategies of campesinos in the urban frontier of Bogotá, Colombia
Much of the research on urbanization has focused on how rural populations move to cities for work opportunities. This paper takes a different perspective on the relations between rural populations and urbanization. The livelihoods of rural dwellers on the outskirts of the city of Bogotá in Colombia are increasingly affected by the expansion of urban activities and infrastructure. Therefore, urbanization takes place in the areas of residence of th…
Forest Resource-based Household Economy in the Communities of the Nanay River Basin, Peruvian Amazonia
Experiences from harvest-driven conservation
Nudging the Impasse? Lessons From the Nationwide Online Wolf Management Forum in Finland
During the early 2010s, Finnish wolf (Canis lupus) policy reached an impasse. Unfavorable conservation status, intensifying wolf–human conflict, civil disobedience, legislative confusion, and administrative frustration characterized the situation. As part of a participatory updating process for the Finnish national wolf management plan in 2014, we organized a nationwide wolf management forum to explore how e-participation could be used to nurture…
Local perspectives on the formalization of artisanal and small-scale mining in the Madre de Dios gold fields, Peru
A growing number of governments and donors are promoting the formalization of artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM). They believe that doing so puts them in a better position to govern the sector, and manage the social and environmental impacts of its activities. Mainstream formalization processes are based on the assumption that clear property rights enable the recipients of these rights to capitalize their possessions. Because of reciprocal ob…
High-Tech Centre in the Periphery
The Oulu region in Northern Finland has witnessed a remarkable growth of ICT industries since the 1980s. A town near the Arctic Circle with only 140,000 people (2012) created a high-tech business that employed at its best nearly 16,000 people in the region at the millennium. This article investigates the historical background of this phenomenon, which is not so much an imitation of Silicon Valley, but rather a result of special Finnish and northe…
Control and intimacy in the Amazonian reality
Unfolding the organised irresponsibility
Unfolding the organised irresponsibility
Reterritorialization practices and strategies of campesinos in the urban frontier of Bogotá, Colombia
Much of the research on urbanization has focused on how rural populations move to cities for work opportunities. This paper takes a different perspective on the relations between rural populations and urbanization. The livelihoods of rural dwellers on the outskirts of the city of Bogotá in Colombia are increasingly affected by the expansion of urban activities and infrastructure. Therefore, urbanization takes place in the areas of residence of th…
Local perspectives on the formalization of artisanal and small-scale mining in the Madre de Dios gold fields, Peru
A growing number of governments and donors are promoting the formalization of artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM). They believe that doing so puts them in a better position to govern the sector, and manage the social and environmental impacts of its activities. Mainstream formalization processes are based on the assumption that clear property rights enable the recipients of these rights to capitalize their possessions. Because of reciprocal ob…
Nudging the Impasse? Lessons From the Nationwide Online Wolf Management Forum in Finland
During the early 2010s, Finnish wolf (Canis lupus) policy reached an impasse. Unfavorable conservation status, intensifying wolf–human conflict, civil disobedience, legislative confusion, and administrative frustration characterized the situation. As part of a participatory updating process for the Finnish national wolf management plan in 2014, we organized a nationwide wolf management forum to explore how e-participation could be used to nurture…
High-Tech Centre in the Periphery
The Oulu region in Northern Finland has witnessed a remarkable growth of ICT industries since the 1980s. A town near the Arctic Circle with only 140,000 people (2012) created a high-tech business that employed at its best nearly 16,000 people in the region at the millennium. This article investigates the historical background of this phenomenon, which is not so much an imitation of Silicon Valley, but rather a result of special Finnish and northe…
Control and intimacy in the Amazonian reality
Unfolding the organised irresponsibility
Control and intimacy in the Amazonian reality
High-Tech Centre in the Periphery
The Oulu region in Northern Finland has witnessed a remarkable growth of ICT industries since the 1980s. A town near the Arctic Circle with only 140,000 people (2012) created a high-tech business that employed at its best nearly 16,000 people in the region at the millennium. This article investigates the historical background of this phenomenon, which is not so much an imitation of Silicon Valley, but rather a result of special Finnish and northe…
Local perspectives on the formalization of artisanal and small-scale mining in the Madre de Dios gold fields, Peru
A growing number of governments and donors are promoting the formalization of artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM). They believe that doing so puts them in a better position to govern the sector, and manage the social and environmental impacts of its activities. Mainstream formalization processes are based on the assumption that clear property rights enable the recipients of these rights to capitalize their possessions. Because of reciprocal ob…
Nudging the Impasse? Lessons From the Nationwide Online Wolf Management Forum in Finland
During the early 2010s, Finnish wolf (Canis lupus) policy reached an impasse. Unfavorable conservation status, intensifying wolf–human conflict, civil disobedience, legislative confusion, and administrative frustration characterized the situation. As part of a participatory updating process for the Finnish national wolf management plan in 2014, we organized a nationwide wolf management forum to explore how e-participation could be used to nurture…
Forest Resource-based Household Economy in the Communities of the Nanay River Basin, Peruvian Amazonia
Experiences from harvest-driven conservation
Reterritorialization practices and strategies of campesinos in the urban frontier of Bogotá, Colombia
Much of the research on urbanization has focused on how rural populations move to cities for work opportunities. This paper takes a different perspective on the relations between rural populations and urbanization. The livelihoods of rural dwellers on the outskirts of the city of Bogotá in Colombia are increasingly affected by the expansion of urban activities and infrastructure. Therefore, urbanization takes place in the areas of residence of th…
The Nordic societies and the development of the data centre industry
While attempts to conceptualise the future course of societal development often emphasise the high-level integration and blurring of boundaries between physical and digital space, digital transformation has already made current societies highly dependent on the flawless functioning of the digital infrastructures built globally around data centres. This study provides a comprehensive analysis of the recent emergence and maturation of the Nordic da…
Neoliberal pathways to the bioeconomy
Global capitalism has changed the Earth system to the extent that the current epoch is called the Anthropocene. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), land use change has played a crucial role in this profound functional shift in the Earth system. The Convention on Biodiversity (CBD) and its follow-up processes have insisted the same regarding the persisting decline in biodiversity. To shed light on the institutional a…
Governmentality in evidence? Evolving rationalities of forest governance in Peru
During the recent decades, the effectiveness, sustainability and equity of environmental and resource policies have become increasingly intertwined in governance reforms. This situation with potentially inherent trade-offs has challenged not only the policy planners and implementers, but also the scientific and expert communities to justify the role of specific forms of scientific knowledge in the pursue of multiple and often conflicting objectiv…
The art of the ‘common good’
Cutting across many biophysical, institutional, cultural, and psychological boundaries, the quest for the ‘common good’ is an enduring legitimation for land-use planning interventions that go beyond statutory planning, even supporting the emergence of new commons. We analyse a body of qualitative and semi-quantitative data from a recent strategic land-use plan process in Southwest Finland, including a series of planning documents and the results …
Form and function in ecologizing spatial planning
We explore the emergence of ecological concerns in urban planning in Bogotá, Colombia. Although ecologizing urban planning practices has been a recurrent theme in Bogotá for around three decades, the sustainability problems the city is facing remain addressed in a rather abstract way. We analyze urban and spatial planning by triangulating data from interviews with local stakeholders, a close reading of policy documents, and participant observatio…
Acting for biodiversity in a food value chain
Food production ranks among the primary causes of biodiversity decline. While drivers of this decline are relatively well known, the role of food value chains in contributing to efforts to mitigate the ongoing biodiversity decline remains poorly understood. Adopting a qualitative, grounded theory research design, we explore companies' biodiversity actions across a national food value chain. Empirically, we study 37 companies operating in the Finn…
Bridging biodiversity and regenerative development
The global decline of biodiversity demands transformative change that realigns human activity with planetary processes. Regenerative development may facilitate systemic transformation but remains underexamined in relation to biodiversity. We explore the relationship between biodiversity and place regeneration, conceptually aligning biodiversity enhancement and regenerative development. This requires adopting a refocused concept of biodiversity as…
Geography (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Ecology (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Environmental resource management (5 works) · Biodiversity (4 works) · Environmental planning (4 works) · Law (4 works)