Marja Järvelä
Biographic Data
| ID | 286759 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marja Järvelä |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marja |
| FAMILY NAME | Järvelä |
| SIGNATURE | JÄRVELÄ M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Jyväskylä |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Industrial workers’ perceptions on just transition and work in four Finnish regions
We explore workers' perceptions on just transition in energy-intensive industries. • Justice perceptions depend on factors that primarily drive decarbonization locally. • Solutions vary based on regional and industry features influencing vulnerability. • Workers’ capacity-building requires solutions tailored to varying life situations. • Our findings call for revising understanding of actors responsible for justice. Just low-carbon transition rai…
Dimensions of cultural sustainability—Local adaptation, adaptive capacity and social resilience
Cultural sustainability relates to sustainable development. According to UNESCO “culture provides the necessary transformative dimension that ensures the sustainability of development processes.” Originally sustainable development was defined through three dimensions-ecological, economic and social dimension. Further, the social dimension has been understood in multiple ways often accentuating socio-economic assets of development rather than soci…
Social vulnerability to climate policies
In this article, we address the social vulnerability of people to climate mitigation policies and contribute to assessing the social impacts of climate policies by introducing a matrix tool for conducting vulnerability assessments and participatory climate policy planning. The matrix serves as a methodological tool for identifying social groups in their social spaces. First, we lay the foundation for the matrix by linking social vulnerability to …
Purity and Dirt as Social Constructions
The focus of this article, on everyday life management, emerges from a theoretical discussion about culturally specific attitudes to environmental health. Local perceptions of purity and dirt in an urban shantytown of Lagos, Nigeria, are examined through a case study of the Amukoko urban district. The qualitative data is from two fieldwork phases carried out in 1998 and 2001 in Lagos, consisting of eleven in-depth interviews, eight focus group di…
La mobilité sociale entre générations et le « besoin social » de l'éducation
ducation dans les couches salaries en Finlande aprs la Seconde Guerre mondiale
The Permanency of Social Classes and Intergenerational Mobility in Finland
Examination of social background in different social classes is based here on cross-tabulation of the respondent's and breadwinner's class position Classification follows E.O. Wright's class-scheme with some specifications. The results are founded on the Finnish sample, 'Comparative project on class structure and class consciousness', including interviews of 1311 respon dents. The analysis reveals that Finnish society, in terms of the essential c…
Social vulnerability to climate policies
In this article, we address the social vulnerability of people to climate mitigation policies and contribute to assessing the social impacts of climate policies by introducing a matrix tool for conducting vulnerability assessments and participatory climate policy planning. The matrix serves as a methodological tool for identifying social groups in their social spaces. First, we lay the foundation for the matrix by linking social vulnerability to …
Dimensions of cultural sustainability—Local adaptation, adaptive capacity and social resilience
Cultural sustainability relates to sustainable development. According to UNESCO “culture provides the necessary transformative dimension that ensures the sustainability of development processes.” Originally sustainable development was defined through three dimensions-ecological, economic and social dimension. Further, the social dimension has been understood in multiple ways often accentuating socio-economic assets of development rather than soci…
Purity and Dirt as Social Constructions
The focus of this article, on everyday life management, emerges from a theoretical discussion about culturally specific attitudes to environmental health. Local perceptions of purity and dirt in an urban shantytown of Lagos, Nigeria, are examined through a case study of the Amukoko urban district. The qualitative data is from two fieldwork phases carried out in 1998 and 2001 in Lagos, consisting of eleven in-depth interviews, eight focus group di…
The Permanency of Social Classes and Intergenerational Mobility in Finland
Examination of social background in different social classes is based here on cross-tabulation of the respondent's and breadwinner's class position Classification follows E.O. Wright's class-scheme with some specifications. The results are founded on the Finnish sample, 'Comparative project on class structure and class consciousness', including interviews of 1311 respon dents. The analysis reveals that Finnish society, in terms of the essential c…
Industrial workers’ perceptions on just transition and work in four Finnish regions
We explore workers' perceptions on just transition in energy-intensive industries. • Justice perceptions depend on factors that primarily drive decarbonization locally. • Solutions vary based on regional and industry features influencing vulnerability. • Workers’ capacity-building requires solutions tailored to varying life situations. • Our findings call for revising understanding of actors responsible for justice. Just low-carbon transition rai…
The Permanency of Social Classes and Intergenerational Mobility in Finland
Examination of social background in different social classes is based here on cross-tabulation of the respondent's and breadwinner's class position Classification follows E.O. Wright's class-scheme with some specifications. The results are founded on the Finnish sample, 'Comparative project on class structure and class consciousness', including interviews of 1311 respon dents. The analysis reveals that Finnish society, in terms of the essential c…
La mobilité sociale entre générations et le « besoin social » de l'éducation
ducation dans les couches salaries en Finlande aprs la Seconde Guerre mondiale
Purity and Dirt as Social Constructions
The focus of this article, on everyday life management, emerges from a theoretical discussion about culturally specific attitudes to environmental health. Local perceptions of purity and dirt in an urban shantytown of Lagos, Nigeria, are examined through a case study of the Amukoko urban district. The qualitative data is from two fieldwork phases carried out in 1998 and 2001 in Lagos, consisting of eleven in-depth interviews, eight focus group di…
Social vulnerability to climate policies
In this article, we address the social vulnerability of people to climate mitigation policies and contribute to assessing the social impacts of climate policies by introducing a matrix tool for conducting vulnerability assessments and participatory climate policy planning. The matrix serves as a methodological tool for identifying social groups in their social spaces. First, we lay the foundation for the matrix by linking social vulnerability to …
Dimensions of cultural sustainability—Local adaptation, adaptive capacity and social resilience
Cultural sustainability relates to sustainable development. According to UNESCO “culture provides the necessary transformative dimension that ensures the sustainability of development processes.” Originally sustainable development was defined through three dimensions-ecological, economic and social dimension. Further, the social dimension has been understood in multiple ways often accentuating socio-economic assets of development rather than soci…
Industrial workers’ perceptions on just transition and work in four Finnish regions
We explore workers' perceptions on just transition in energy-intensive industries. • Justice perceptions depend on factors that primarily drive decarbonization locally. • Solutions vary based on regional and industry features influencing vulnerability. • Workers’ capacity-building requires solutions tailored to varying life situations. • Our findings call for revising understanding of actors responsible for justice. Just low-carbon transition rai…
Political science (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Geography (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Climate change (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Demographic economics (2 works) · Ecology (2 works)