Salla Rantala

Biographic Data

ID1573083
NAMESalla Rantala
GIVEN NAMESSalla
FAMILY NAMERantala
SIGNATURERANTALA S
AFFILIATIONSFinnish Environment Institute
ORCID0000-0002-8135-4569
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS12
TOTAL CITATIONS34
AUTHOR COUNT12
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX4

  • Transformative pathways for social networks to navigate towards a nature-positive society: Collaborate, challenge, and disrupt

    Open AccessJ Westerink, Jeanne L Nel et al.ARTICLECurrent Opinion in Environmental…2026References: 20

    Social networks of actors and networks of networks are essential in transformative change for biodiversity. In particular, cross-boundary networks such as science–policy–society interface networks are relevant for exchanging ideas that may shift values, paradigms, knowledge, policies, and practices. On the basis of literature and a collaborative design process, we develop three pathways for social networks to navigate in advancing their transform…

  • The Political Impact of the Sustainable Development Goals: Transforming Governance Through Global Goals

    Open AccessLouis J Kotzé, Richard E Kim et al.BOOKThe Political Impact of the…2022

    Written by an international team of over sixty experts and drawing on over three thousand scientific studies, this is the first comprehensive global assessment of the political impact of the Sustainable Development Goals, which were launched by the United Nations in 2015. It explores in detail the political steering effects of the Sustainable Development Goals on the UN system and the policies of countries in the Global North and Global South; on…

  • Environmental law toward sustainability targets

    Open AccessDamilola Olawuyi, Damilola S Olawuyi et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2022

  • Forest data governance as a reflection of forest governance: Institutional change and endurance in Finland and Canada

    Open AccessSalla Rantala, Brent Swallow et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Science & Policy2022Cited by: 2References: 31

    The rapid development of new digital technologies for natural resource management has created a need to design and update governance regimes for effective and transparent generation, sharing and use of digital natural resource data. In this paper, we contribute to this novel area of investigation from the perspective of institutional change. We develop a conceptual framework to analyze how emerging natural resource data governance is shaped by re…

  • The limits of spatial data? Sense-making within the development and different uses of Finnish urban-rural classification

    Open AccessUula Saastamoinen, Suvi Vikström et al.ARTICLELand Use Policy2022References: 19

    In order to formulate relevant understanding of key sustainability challenges, evidence-based decision-making relies on comprehensive data. While the complexity of producing and processing spatial data and the potential for biases are well recognised, the social process of making sense of data and its implications for societal uses is less analysed. In this article, insights of critical data studies are applied to study the production of, as well…

  • Pluralising agency to understand behaviour change in sustainability transitions

    Open AccessSuvi Huttunen, Minna Kaljonen et al.ARTICLEEnergy Research & Social Science2021Cited by: 13References: 25

    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 …

  • Integrative concepts and practices of health in transdisciplinary social ecology

    Open AccessTimo Assmuth, Xianwen Chen et al.ARTICLESocio-Ecological Practice Research2020

    Increasing recognition of interdependencies of the health of humans, other organisms and ecosystems, and of their importance to socio-ecological systems, necessitates application of integrative concepts such as One Health and EcoHealth. These concepts open new perspectives for research and practice but also generate confusion and divergent opinion, prompting new theories, and call for empirical clarification and evaluation. Through a semi-systema…

  • Energetic voices on social media? Strategic Niche Management and Finnish Facebook debate on biogas and heat pumps

    Open AccessSalla Rantala, Arho Toikka et al.ARTICLEEnergy Research & Social Science2019Cited by: 6References: 13

    Strategic niches are protected spaces for emerging technologies, where expectations are articulated, social networks built, and learning occurs. Although Strategic Niche Management (SNM) can be done in a directed, strategic manner, more diffuse, loosely connected and self-organizing niches also exist. We explore such niches in a particular setting: a social media discussion forum − a Facebook group − set up for an open discussion on the reform of…

  • Technical and social knowledge discontinuities in the multi-objective management of private forests in Finland

    Open AccessSari Pynnönen, Anna Salomaa et al.ARTICLELand Use Policy2019References: 49

    Managing forests sustainably for multiple objectives requires multi-faceted socio-technical knowledge. This study explores the challenges of using knowledge within social and technical knowledge systems in decision-making about and the management of privately-owned forests in Finland. We define the technical knowledge system as the collection of standardized forms of knowledge and the IT systems supporting their storage and distribution. The soci…

  • The use of knowledge in evidence-informed voluntary conservation of Finnish forests

    Open AccessAnna Salomaa, Riikka Paloniemi et al.ARTICLEForest Policy and Economics2016Cited by: 8References: 7

  • Multistakeholder environmental governance in action: Redd+ discourse coalitions in Tanzania

    Open AccessSalla Rantala, Monica Di GregorioARTICLEConservation Ecology2014Cited by: 5

    Rantala, S., and M. Di Gregorio. 2014. Multistakeholder environmental governance in action: REDD+ discourse coalitions in Tanzania. Ecology and Society 19(2): 66. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-06536-190266

  • Who Gains and Who Loses from Compensated Displacement from Protected Areas? The Case of the Derema Corridor, Tanzania

    Open AccessSalla Rantala, SallaE Rantala et al.ARTICLEConservation and Society2013

    Increasing attention is being paid to the social impacts of the exclusionary nature of conservation, as well as the mechanisms and policies put in place to mitigate negative impacts. Yet, factors that condition the restoration of well-being among people whose access to resources has changed due to conservation are still poorly understood. In this article we present an analytical framework for studying the social impacts of conservation interventi…