Minna Kaljonen
Biographic Data
| ID | 1522418 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Minna Kaljonen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Minna |
| FAMILY NAME | Kaljonen |
| SIGNATURE | KALJONEN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Finnish Environment Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8067-2402 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 176 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Youth’s lived food environments
The food environment is the immediate context through which people encounter the broader food system in their daily lives. Understanding how individuals navigate and experience their food environments is essential for developing sustainable food systems. This study examines the lived food environments of adolescents and young adults, a life stage characterized by both vulnerabilities and opportunities for food system transformation. We conducted …
Balancing tensions for just transition
Recent years have witnessed an increasing corporate interest in food system climate actions – concurrent with a delay in public authorities’ willingness to implement effective policies in the sector. Within the field of just food system transitions, there is growing concern that mitigation activities are being strategically slowed down with social justice arguments. Yet the roles and responsibilities of private sector actors have been understudie…
Design-driven citizen participation towards 1.5-degree planetary diets
Purpose The transition towards sustainable diets requires profound changes in the food system and the involvement of various actors, including citizens. This calls for the development of processes for citizen participation. Design/methodology/approach This article explores the role of design-driven approaches in leveraging citizens’ knowledge and enhancing their capacities to contribute to policy processes. Through a series of workshops, citizens…
Future images of youth on food systems transformation– study with the Finnish high school students
Planet-friendly school meals
Policy mixes for just transitions
In this paper, we develop a holistic policy evaluation framework that aims to harness a fuller potential of just transitions. Although appeals for broader understanding of just transitions are becoming louder, applicable frameworks supporting consideration of justice in the planning and evaluation of transition policies are still lacking. The evaluation framework developed integrates the multidimensional understanding of justice more consistently…
Just destabilisation? Considering justice in the phase-out of peat
The deliberate destabilisation of regimes has gained attention in sustainability transitions scholarship regarding the urgency of transitions. However, there has been little focus on justice in deliberate destabilisation literature. Without attention to justice, destabilisation policies can cause unforeseen negative social, economic, or environmental impacts. Justice has mainly been explored in terms of compensating losses for regime actors, loca…
Reflexive use of methods
In transformative sustainability science, reflexivity is considered critical for ethically sound and socially relevant research. In practice, many transdisciplinary knowledge co-production processes have faced problems in mitigating power hierarchies among the participating actors and the different types of knowledge. In this paper, we develop and test a reflexive framework that enables transdisciplinary researchers to convey more explicitly how …
Introduction to the special issue on just food system transition
Ontological struggle over new product category
Governing plant-centred eating at the urban scale in the UK
Recent years have seen an increase in actions to address a key feature of food in the Anthropocene: the over-production and consumption of animal-based foods or "animalisation" of diets. However, it is unclear whether such efforts can be understood as a coherent institutional level response that will challenge hegemonic dietary biopower, a regime of governance that normalises and reproduces animal-based food consumption. Building on scholarship t…
Priorities for social science and humanities research on the challenges of moving beyond animal-based food systems
Increasingly high-profile research is being undertaken into the socio-environmental challenges associated with the over-production and consumption of food from animals. Transforming food systems to mitigate climate change and hidden hunger, ensure food security and good health all point to reducing animal-based foods as a key lever. Moving beyond animal-based food systems is a societal grand challenge requiring coordinated international research …
Moving beyond disruptive innovation
Because of the urgency of accelerating transitions, we examine the emerging understanding of the concept of ‘disruption’ in the context of sustainability transition studies to critically assess its value, pitfalls and potentials. By conducting a qualitative systematic review of 47 articles, we analyse how disruption is seen in this literature and what is being disrupted. We identify four non-technical dimensions of disruption, adding ‘behaviour, …
Pluralising agency to understand behaviour change in sustainability transitions
In order to maintain a habitable planet, relatively fast and large-scale transitions towards sustainable societies are needed especially regarding the production and consumption of energy. The transitions require people to change the ways they conduct their daily lives as well as agency (capacity to act) in bringing about the needed changes at different levels of society. However, inadequate attention to human behaviour and agency is a recurring …
Promises of meat and milk alternatives
Increasing concerns for climate change call for radical changes in food systems. There is a need to pay more attention to the entangled changes in technological development, food production, as well as consumption and consumer demand. Consumer and market interest in alternative meat and milk products—such as plant based milk, plant protein products and cultured meat and milk—is increasing. At the same time, statistics do not show a decrease in me…
Justice in transitions
Just transition is gaining increasing attention.The need to consider social justice in sustainability transitions is finally being acknowledged.Research on this issue has, to date, mainly concentrated on energy systems.In this paper, we examine how the elaboration of dietary transition widens the spectrum of justice questions in sustainability transitions research.We explicate the arising normative questions along the dimensions of distributive, …
From isolated labels and nudges to sustained tinkering
Purpose The critical role of diet in climate change mitigation has raised behavioural approaches to the top of the agenda. In this paper, the authors take a critical look at these behavioural approaches and call for a more dynamic, practice-oriented understanding of long-term changes in sustainable food consumption and supply. Design/methodology/approach This approach is based on the experiences from a long-term experiment promoting sustainable e…
Animal bodies multiple
Probing the grounds
You Only Start Filling in the Boxes
To an increasing extent, the management of natural resources rests on planning as a means to enhance collaborative deliberation and policy integration. But even before a planning process can start and any joint meeting be held, a lot of organisational and ontological work needs to be done. 'Plan-ability' requires the shaping of an analytical and operational platform that allows making sense of, and relating to, natural resources and their evoluti…
Seeking policy-relevant knowledge
Co-construction of agency and environmental management. The case of agri-environmental policy implementation at Finnish farms
Views on planning and expectations of SEA
Justice in transitions
Just transition is gaining increasing attention.The need to consider social justice in sustainability transitions is finally being acknowledged.Research on this issue has, to date, mainly concentrated on energy systems.In this paper, we examine how the elaboration of dietary transition widens the spectrum of justice questions in sustainability transitions research.We explicate the arising normative questions along the dimensions of distributive, …
Co-construction of agency and environmental management. The case of agri-environmental policy implementation at Finnish farms
Views on planning and expectations of SEA
Pluralising agency to understand behaviour change in sustainability transitions
In order to maintain a habitable planet, relatively fast and large-scale transitions towards sustainable societies are needed especially regarding the production and consumption of energy. The transitions require people to change the ways they conduct their daily lives as well as agency (capacity to act) in bringing about the needed changes at different levels of society. However, inadequate attention to human behaviour and agency is a recurring …
Introduction to the special issue on just food system transition
Ontological struggle over new product category
Promises of meat and milk alternatives
Increasing concerns for climate change call for radical changes in food systems. There is a need to pay more attention to the entangled changes in technological development, food production, as well as consumption and consumer demand. Consumer and market interest in alternative meat and milk products—such as plant based milk, plant protein products and cultured meat and milk—is increasing. At the same time, statistics do not show a decrease in me…
Probing the grounds
Reflexive use of methods
In transformative sustainability science, reflexivity is considered critical for ethically sound and socially relevant research. In practice, many transdisciplinary knowledge co-production processes have faced problems in mitigating power hierarchies among the participating actors and the different types of knowledge. In this paper, we develop and test a reflexive framework that enables transdisciplinary researchers to convey more explicitly how …
Just destabilisation? Considering justice in the phase-out of peat
The deliberate destabilisation of regimes has gained attention in sustainability transitions scholarship regarding the urgency of transitions. However, there has been little focus on justice in deliberate destabilisation literature. Without attention to justice, destabilisation policies can cause unforeseen negative social, economic, or environmental impacts. Justice has mainly been explored in terms of compensating losses for regime actors, loca…
From isolated labels and nudges to sustained tinkering
Purpose The critical role of diet in climate change mitigation has raised behavioural approaches to the top of the agenda. In this paper, the authors take a critical look at these behavioural approaches and call for a more dynamic, practice-oriented understanding of long-term changes in sustainable food consumption and supply. Design/methodology/approach This approach is based on the experiences from a long-term experiment promoting sustainable e…
Animal bodies multiple
Policy mixes for just transitions
In this paper, we develop a holistic policy evaluation framework that aims to harness a fuller potential of just transitions. Although appeals for broader understanding of just transitions are becoming louder, applicable frameworks supporting consideration of justice in the planning and evaluation of transition policies are still lacking. The evaluation framework developed integrates the multidimensional understanding of justice more consistently…
Governing plant-centred eating at the urban scale in the UK
Recent years have seen an increase in actions to address a key feature of food in the Anthropocene: the over-production and consumption of animal-based foods or "animalisation" of diets. However, it is unclear whether such efforts can be understood as a coherent institutional level response that will challenge hegemonic dietary biopower, a regime of governance that normalises and reproduces animal-based food consumption. Building on scholarship t…
Future images of youth on food systems transformation– study with the Finnish high school students
You Only Start Filling in the Boxes
To an increasing extent, the management of natural resources rests on planning as a means to enhance collaborative deliberation and policy integration. But even before a planning process can start and any joint meeting be held, a lot of organisational and ontological work needs to be done. 'Plan-ability' requires the shaping of an analytical and operational platform that allows making sense of, and relating to, natural resources and their evoluti…
Seeking policy-relevant knowledge
Views on planning and expectations of SEA
Co-construction of agency and environmental management. The case of agri-environmental policy implementation at Finnish farms
Seeking policy-relevant knowledge
You Only Start Filling in the Boxes
To an increasing extent, the management of natural resources rests on planning as a means to enhance collaborative deliberation and policy integration. But even before a planning process can start and any joint meeting be held, a lot of organisational and ontological work needs to be done. 'Plan-ability' requires the shaping of an analytical and operational platform that allows making sense of, and relating to, natural resources and their evoluti…
Probing the grounds
Animal bodies multiple
From isolated labels and nudges to sustained tinkering
Purpose The critical role of diet in climate change mitigation has raised behavioural approaches to the top of the agenda. In this paper, the authors take a critical look at these behavioural approaches and call for a more dynamic, practice-oriented understanding of long-term changes in sustainable food consumption and supply. Design/methodology/approach This approach is based on the experiences from a long-term experiment promoting sustainable e…
Priorities for social science and humanities research on the challenges of moving beyond animal-based food systems
Increasingly high-profile research is being undertaken into the socio-environmental challenges associated with the over-production and consumption of food from animals. Transforming food systems to mitigate climate change and hidden hunger, ensure food security and good health all point to reducing animal-based foods as a key lever. Moving beyond animal-based food systems is a societal grand challenge requiring coordinated international research …
Moving beyond disruptive innovation
Because of the urgency of accelerating transitions, we examine the emerging understanding of the concept of ‘disruption’ in the context of sustainability transition studies to critically assess its value, pitfalls and potentials. By conducting a qualitative systematic review of 47 articles, we analyse how disruption is seen in this literature and what is being disrupted. We identify four non-technical dimensions of disruption, adding ‘behaviour, …
Pluralising agency to understand behaviour change in sustainability transitions
In order to maintain a habitable planet, relatively fast and large-scale transitions towards sustainable societies are needed especially regarding the production and consumption of energy. The transitions require people to change the ways they conduct their daily lives as well as agency (capacity to act) in bringing about the needed changes at different levels of society. However, inadequate attention to human behaviour and agency is a recurring …
Promises of meat and milk alternatives
Increasing concerns for climate change call for radical changes in food systems. There is a need to pay more attention to the entangled changes in technological development, food production, as well as consumption and consumer demand. Consumer and market interest in alternative meat and milk products—such as plant based milk, plant protein products and cultured meat and milk—is increasing. At the same time, statistics do not show a decrease in me…
Justice in transitions
Just transition is gaining increasing attention.The need to consider social justice in sustainability transitions is finally being acknowledged.Research on this issue has, to date, mainly concentrated on energy systems.In this paper, we examine how the elaboration of dietary transition widens the spectrum of justice questions in sustainability transitions research.We explicate the arising normative questions along the dimensions of distributive, …
Ontological struggle over new product category
Governing plant-centred eating at the urban scale in the UK
Recent years have seen an increase in actions to address a key feature of food in the Anthropocene: the over-production and consumption of animal-based foods or "animalisation" of diets. However, it is unclear whether such efforts can be understood as a coherent institutional level response that will challenge hegemonic dietary biopower, a regime of governance that normalises and reproduces animal-based food consumption. Building on scholarship t…
Reflexive use of methods
In transformative sustainability science, reflexivity is considered critical for ethically sound and socially relevant research. In practice, many transdisciplinary knowledge co-production processes have faced problems in mitigating power hierarchies among the participating actors and the different types of knowledge. In this paper, we develop and test a reflexive framework that enables transdisciplinary researchers to convey more explicitly how …
Introduction to the special issue on just food system transition
Planet-friendly school meals
Policy mixes for just transitions
In this paper, we develop a holistic policy evaluation framework that aims to harness a fuller potential of just transitions. Although appeals for broader understanding of just transitions are becoming louder, applicable frameworks supporting consideration of justice in the planning and evaluation of transition policies are still lacking. The evaluation framework developed integrates the multidimensional understanding of justice more consistently…
Just destabilisation? Considering justice in the phase-out of peat
The deliberate destabilisation of regimes has gained attention in sustainability transitions scholarship regarding the urgency of transitions. However, there has been little focus on justice in deliberate destabilisation literature. Without attention to justice, destabilisation policies can cause unforeseen negative social, economic, or environmental impacts. Justice has mainly been explored in terms of compensating losses for regime actors, loca…
Design-driven citizen participation towards 1.5-degree planetary diets
Purpose The transition towards sustainable diets requires profound changes in the food system and the involvement of various actors, including citizens. This calls for the development of processes for citizen participation. Design/methodology/approach This article explores the role of design-driven approaches in leveraging citizens’ knowledge and enhancing their capacities to contribute to policy processes. Through a series of workshops, citizens…
Future images of youth on food systems transformation– study with the Finnish high school students
Youth’s lived food environments
The food environment is the immediate context through which people encounter the broader food system in their daily lives. Understanding how individuals navigate and experience their food environments is essential for developing sustainable food systems. This study examines the lived food environments of adolescents and young adults, a life stage characterized by both vulnerabilities and opportunities for food system transformation. We conducted …
Balancing tensions for just transition
Recent years have witnessed an increasing corporate interest in food system climate actions – concurrent with a delay in public authorities’ willingness to implement effective policies in the sector. Within the field of just food system transitions, there is growing concern that mitigation activities are being strategically slowed down with social justice arguments. Yet the roles and responsibilities of private sector actors have been understudie…
Business (13 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact (8 works) · Ecology (8 works) · Economics (8 works) · Sustainability (8 works) · Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability (7 works) · Organic Food and Agriculture (7 works)