Jussi T Eronen
Biographic Data
| ID | 1542347 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jussi T Eronen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jussi T |
| FAMILY NAME | Eronen |
| SIGNATURE | ERONEN J T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0390-8044 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 69 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Adapting in polycrisis: Ensuring access to land as a polysolution for Arctic reindeer herding
Current global socio-environmental changes challenge human societies and give rise to new adaptation needs also for Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLCs). Based on participatory workshops with Sámi and Finn reindeer herders we examined adaptation challenges for reindeer herding in a situation characterized by complex, intertwined and unpredictable risks framed as polycrisis. We found that increasing the possibilities of reindeer herder…
A new scenario architecture to capture granularity of governance within and across Shared Socioeconomic Pathways
Publisher Copyright: © 2026 The Authors
The effect of the 8.2 ka cold event on Fennoscandian hunter-gatherer metapopulation inferred from climatic, environmental, and archaeological signals
The effects of the 8.2 ka cold event in the Fennoscandian Peninsula have been discussed in palaeoclimatological and archaeological studies for more than two decades. Here we present the first overview of human responses to the abrupt 1–3 °C cooling in Fennoscandia. We summarize the results of 27 archaeological studies discussing the effects of the event on Fennoscandian foragers alongside with a survey of climatic and environmental proxy records …
The Ties That Bind: Computational, Cross-cultural Analyses of Knots Reveal Their Cultural Evolutionary History and Significance
Integral to the fabric of human technology, knots have shaped survival strategies since their first invention. As the ties that bind, their evolution and diversity have afforded human cultural change and expression. This study examines knotting traditions over time and space. We analyse a sample of 338 knots from 86 ethnographically or archaeologically documented societies over 12 millennia. Utilizing a novel approach that combines knot theory wi…
Policy documents considering biodiversity, land use, and climate in the European Arctic reveal visible, hidden, and imagined nexus approaches
Early knowledge but delays in climate actions: An ecocide case against both transnational oil corporations and national governments
International audience
A global cross-cultural analysis of string figures reveals evidence of deep transmission and innovation
Few cultural practices beyond language are as widespread as string figure games. Their global distribution and potential to yield insights into cultural transmission and cognition have long been noted. Yet, it remains unknown how or when this behavior originated and to what extent shared motifs are signals of repeated innovations or deep cultural transmission. Here, we combined a global cross-cultural inventory of string figures with a novel meth…
The crises inherent in the success of the global food system
Food systems around the world are increasingly interwoven into a global network. The dominant productionist paradigm emphasizes aggregate production volumes, a focus on few key products, and the dominant role of large exporting countries and transnational corporations. This article proposes a new conceptualization of food systems that illuminates the unequal structure and the lock-ins of this network. The global network of national food systems m…
Rules of thumb, from Holocene to Anthropocene
This article reviews how simple heuristics - 'rules of thumb' - have guided human adaptation and the evolution of complex cultures. First, we argue that rules of thumb have been important catalysts for the evolution of human knowledge systems in the Holocene past. Through a variety of examples and case studies, we discuss how human cultures have used simple heuristics in domains as diverse as foraging, agriculture, social learning, moral and lega…
Coping with policy errors in an era of chronic socio-environmental crises
Since large-scale environmental disruptions have become chronic, policymakers need to consider the long-term consequences of urgent crisis decisions. We develop design principles for a decision platform addressing strategic environmental crisis management, by which we mean coordinated decisions during an environmental urgency that are sensitive to long-term path dependencies and policy errors. To enhance critical questioning of formal doctrines, …
Suomen pandemiapolitiikka näköalana ilmastokriisipolitiikkaan
Toward a holistic understanding of pastoralism
Comprehensive Security: The Opportunities and Challenges of Incorporating Environmental Threats in Security Policy
In security and foreign policy discourse, environmental issues have been discussed increasingly as security threats that require immediate action. Yet, as the traditional security sector does not provide straightforward means to deal with climate change and other environmental issues, this has prompted concerns over undue securitisation and ill-placed extreme measures. We argue that an effective policy to address foreseeable environmental securit…
Lessons for human survival in a world without ecological templates: What Can We Learn From Small-Scale Societies
Kaaronen, R. O., M. A. Manninen, E. Roe, J. I. Hukkinen, and J. T. Eronen. 2021. Lessons for human survival in a world without ecological templates: what can we learn from small-scale societies? Ecology and Society 26(3):2. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12476-260302
Raising the bar: On the Type, Size and Timeline of a 'Successful' Decoupling
Decoupling environmental ‘bads’ from economic ‘goods’ is a key part of policies such as green growth and circular economy that see economic growth as desirable or necessary, and also see that current use of natural resources and its environmental impacts is unsustainable. We estimate what a ‘successful decoupling’ (2% annual GDP growth and a decline in resource use by 2050 to a level that could be sustainable and compatible with a maximum 2°C glo…
Decoupling for ecological sustainability: A categorisation and review of research literature
To continue to burn something? Technological, economic and political path dependencies in district heating in Helsinki, Finland
The palaeoenvironment of the middle Miocene pliopithecid locality in Damiao, Inner Mongolia, China
The many Anthropocenes: A transdisciplinary challenge for the Anthropocene research
The debate on the Anthropocene has become passionate during the past few years. This is partly because social scientists and humanists have adapted the concept creatively for their own research, as well as criticized the dominant role of natural sciences in defining the Anthropocene. We claim that to achieve a new level of transdisciplinarity it is vital for the Anthropocene research to fully acknowledge the theoretical, methodological and practi…
Introducing the Scientific Consensus on Maintaining Humanity's Life Support Systems in the 21st Century: Information for Policy Makers
The Anthropocene is recognized (though not yet formally defined) as the time when human impacts are widespread on Earth. While some of the impacts are essential to supporting large human populations and can be sustainable in the long run, others can irretrievably damage the life support systems upon which the global society has come to depend, or spark rapid changes to which societies cannot adapt fast enough. Among these dangerous trends are inc…
The Mio-Pliocene European primate fossil record: Dynamics and Habitat Tracking
Experience in East-West co-operation Findland's trade with comecon countries
The Mio-Pliocene European primate fossil record: Dynamics and Habitat Tracking
The many Anthropocenes: A transdisciplinary challenge for the Anthropocene research
The debate on the Anthropocene has become passionate during the past few years. This is partly because social scientists and humanists have adapted the concept creatively for their own research, as well as criticized the dominant role of natural sciences in defining the Anthropocene. We claim that to achieve a new level of transdisciplinarity it is vital for the Anthropocene research to fully acknowledge the theoretical, methodological and practi…
Introducing the Scientific Consensus on Maintaining Humanity's Life Support Systems in the 21st Century: Information for Policy Makers
The Anthropocene is recognized (though not yet formally defined) as the time when human impacts are widespread on Earth. While some of the impacts are essential to supporting large human populations and can be sustainable in the long run, others can irretrievably damage the life support systems upon which the global society has come to depend, or spark rapid changes to which societies cannot adapt fast enough. Among these dangerous trends are inc…
To continue to burn something? Technological, economic and political path dependencies in district heating in Helsinki, Finland
Comprehensive Security: The Opportunities and Challenges of Incorporating Environmental Threats in Security Policy
In security and foreign policy discourse, environmental issues have been discussed increasingly as security threats that require immediate action. Yet, as the traditional security sector does not provide straightforward means to deal with climate change and other environmental issues, this has prompted concerns over undue securitisation and ill-placed extreme measures. We argue that an effective policy to address foreseeable environmental securit…
Raising the bar: On the Type, Size and Timeline of a 'Successful' Decoupling
Decoupling environmental ‘bads’ from economic ‘goods’ is a key part of policies such as green growth and circular economy that see economic growth as desirable or necessary, and also see that current use of natural resources and its environmental impacts is unsustainable. We estimate what a ‘successful decoupling’ (2% annual GDP growth and a decline in resource use by 2050 to a level that could be sustainable and compatible with a maximum 2°C glo…
Rules of thumb, from Holocene to Anthropocene
This article reviews how simple heuristics - 'rules of thumb' - have guided human adaptation and the evolution of complex cultures. First, we argue that rules of thumb have been important catalysts for the evolution of human knowledge systems in the Holocene past. Through a variety of examples and case studies, we discuss how human cultures have used simple heuristics in domains as diverse as foraging, agriculture, social learning, moral and lega…
Coping with policy errors in an era of chronic socio-environmental crises
Since large-scale environmental disruptions have become chronic, policymakers need to consider the long-term consequences of urgent crisis decisions. We develop design principles for a decision platform addressing strategic environmental crisis management, by which we mean coordinated decisions during an environmental urgency that are sensitive to long-term path dependencies and policy errors. To enhance critical questioning of formal doctrines, …
Lessons for human survival in a world without ecological templates: What Can We Learn From Small-Scale Societies
Kaaronen, R. O., M. A. Manninen, E. Roe, J. I. Hukkinen, and J. T. Eronen. 2021. Lessons for human survival in a world without ecological templates: what can we learn from small-scale societies? Ecology and Society 26(3):2. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12476-260302
A global cross-cultural analysis of string figures reveals evidence of deep transmission and innovation
Few cultural practices beyond language are as widespread as string figure games. Their global distribution and potential to yield insights into cultural transmission and cognition have long been noted. Yet, it remains unknown how or when this behavior originated and to what extent shared motifs are signals of repeated innovations or deep cultural transmission. Here, we combined a global cross-cultural inventory of string figures with a novel meth…
The crises inherent in the success of the global food system
Food systems around the world are increasingly interwoven into a global network. The dominant productionist paradigm emphasizes aggregate production volumes, a focus on few key products, and the dominant role of large exporting countries and transnational corporations. This article proposes a new conceptualization of food systems that illuminates the unequal structure and the lock-ins of this network. The global network of national food systems m…
Experience in East-West co-operation Findland's trade with comecon countries
The Mio-Pliocene European primate fossil record: Dynamics and Habitat Tracking
Introducing the Scientific Consensus on Maintaining Humanity's Life Support Systems in the 21st Century: Information for Policy Makers
The Anthropocene is recognized (though not yet formally defined) as the time when human impacts are widespread on Earth. While some of the impacts are essential to supporting large human populations and can be sustainable in the long run, others can irretrievably damage the life support systems upon which the global society has come to depend, or spark rapid changes to which societies cannot adapt fast enough. Among these dangerous trends are inc…
The palaeoenvironment of the middle Miocene pliopithecid locality in Damiao, Inner Mongolia, China
The many Anthropocenes: A transdisciplinary challenge for the Anthropocene research
The debate on the Anthropocene has become passionate during the past few years. This is partly because social scientists and humanists have adapted the concept creatively for their own research, as well as criticized the dominant role of natural sciences in defining the Anthropocene. We claim that to achieve a new level of transdisciplinarity it is vital for the Anthropocene research to fully acknowledge the theoretical, methodological and practi…
To continue to burn something? Technological, economic and political path dependencies in district heating in Helsinki, Finland
Decoupling for ecological sustainability: A categorisation and review of research literature
Suomen pandemiapolitiikka näköalana ilmastokriisipolitiikkaan
Toward a holistic understanding of pastoralism
Comprehensive Security: The Opportunities and Challenges of Incorporating Environmental Threats in Security Policy
In security and foreign policy discourse, environmental issues have been discussed increasingly as security threats that require immediate action. Yet, as the traditional security sector does not provide straightforward means to deal with climate change and other environmental issues, this has prompted concerns over undue securitisation and ill-placed extreme measures. We argue that an effective policy to address foreseeable environmental securit…
Lessons for human survival in a world without ecological templates: What Can We Learn From Small-Scale Societies
Kaaronen, R. O., M. A. Manninen, E. Roe, J. I. Hukkinen, and J. T. Eronen. 2021. Lessons for human survival in a world without ecological templates: what can we learn from small-scale societies? Ecology and Society 26(3):2. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12476-260302
Raising the bar: On the Type, Size and Timeline of a 'Successful' Decoupling
Decoupling environmental ‘bads’ from economic ‘goods’ is a key part of policies such as green growth and circular economy that see economic growth as desirable or necessary, and also see that current use of natural resources and its environmental impacts is unsustainable. We estimate what a ‘successful decoupling’ (2% annual GDP growth and a decline in resource use by 2050 to a level that could be sustainable and compatible with a maximum 2°C glo…
Coping with policy errors in an era of chronic socio-environmental crises
Since large-scale environmental disruptions have become chronic, policymakers need to consider the long-term consequences of urgent crisis decisions. We develop design principles for a decision platform addressing strategic environmental crisis management, by which we mean coordinated decisions during an environmental urgency that are sensitive to long-term path dependencies and policy errors. To enhance critical questioning of formal doctrines, …
The crises inherent in the success of the global food system
Food systems around the world are increasingly interwoven into a global network. The dominant productionist paradigm emphasizes aggregate production volumes, a focus on few key products, and the dominant role of large exporting countries and transnational corporations. This article proposes a new conceptualization of food systems that illuminates the unequal structure and the lock-ins of this network. The global network of national food systems m…
Rules of thumb, from Holocene to Anthropocene
This article reviews how simple heuristics - 'rules of thumb' - have guided human adaptation and the evolution of complex cultures. First, we argue that rules of thumb have been important catalysts for the evolution of human knowledge systems in the Holocene past. Through a variety of examples and case studies, we discuss how human cultures have used simple heuristics in domains as diverse as foraging, agriculture, social learning, moral and lega…
Policy documents considering biodiversity, land use, and climate in the European Arctic reveal visible, hidden, and imagined nexus approaches
Early knowledge but delays in climate actions: An ecocide case against both transnational oil corporations and national governments
International audience
A global cross-cultural analysis of string figures reveals evidence of deep transmission and innovation
Few cultural practices beyond language are as widespread as string figure games. Their global distribution and potential to yield insights into cultural transmission and cognition have long been noted. Yet, it remains unknown how or when this behavior originated and to what extent shared motifs are signals of repeated innovations or deep cultural transmission. Here, we combined a global cross-cultural inventory of string figures with a novel meth…
The effect of the 8.2 ka cold event on Fennoscandian hunter-gatherer metapopulation inferred from climatic, environmental, and archaeological signals
The effects of the 8.2 ka cold event in the Fennoscandian Peninsula have been discussed in palaeoclimatological and archaeological studies for more than two decades. Here we present the first overview of human responses to the abrupt 1–3 °C cooling in Fennoscandia. We summarize the results of 27 archaeological studies discussing the effects of the event on Fennoscandian foragers alongside with a survey of climatic and environmental proxy records …
The Ties That Bind: Computational, Cross-cultural Analyses of Knots Reveal Their Cultural Evolutionary History and Significance
Integral to the fabric of human technology, knots have shaped survival strategies since their first invention. As the ties that bind, their evolution and diversity have afforded human cultural change and expression. This study examines knotting traditions over time and space. We analyse a sample of 338 knots from 86 ethnographically or archaeologically documented societies over 12 millennia. Utilizing a novel approach that combines knot theory wi…
Adapting in polycrisis: Ensuring access to land as a polysolution for Arctic reindeer herding
Current global socio-environmental changes challenge human societies and give rise to new adaptation needs also for Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLCs). Based on participatory workshops with Sámi and Finn reindeer herders we examined adaptation challenges for reindeer herding in a situation characterized by complex, intertwined and unpredictable risks framed as polycrisis. We found that increasing the possibilities of reindeer herder…
A new scenario architecture to capture granularity of governance within and across Shared Socioeconomic Pathways
Publisher Copyright: © 2026 The Authors
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