Maria Åkerman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3588325 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maria Åkerman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maria |
| FAMILY NAME | Åkerman |
| SIGNATURE | AKERMAN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tampere University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6895-3375 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
From niche support to system building—Perceptions of the transformation potential of policy measures on packaging reuse
Introducing the Critical Making Responsibility framework for analyzing responsible innovation processes in grassroots practices
This paper introduces the Critical Making Responsibility Framework. The framework has been developed by the Critical Making consortium in order to analyze responsible innovation processes in grassroots innovation, specifically in the practice of making. The paper builds on a literature review to highlight the shortcomings of current Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) frameworks’ relevance towards grassroots innovation practices, and conver…
Temporal challenges of building a circular city district through living-lab experiments
Urban living lab (ULL) experiments are expected to create grounds for circular city transitions but their temporal dynamics remain understudied. This study investigates the linkages of a particular sanitation experiment to a long-term urban development trajectories in the Hiedanranta ULL in the City of Tampere, Finland. The ethnographical study focuses on the temporal matches and mismatches of three interrelated timescales affecting the transform…
Collaborative governance as a means of navigating the uncertainties of sustainability transformations
The use of disposable packaging is essential to the performance of global food systems, but it has led to global environmental problems. There is a recognised need for collaborative governance, because authoritative governance alone cannot push forward the systemic sustainability transformations required to resolve these challenges. In this qualitative case study, we apply interpretive policy analysis to study actors' motivations and experiences …
Environmental impact bonds as a transformative policy innovation
Impact bonds have emerged as a policy innovation with the potential to change public policies towards being more outcome-based and pre-emptive – and more effective in answering sustainability challenges. This financial instrument has been used for social problems and only recently for environmental issues. One example is the Nutrient-EIB (environmental impact bond) which is in preparation to be implemented in Southwest Finland. We study involved …
The politics of making Finland an experimenting nation
As atop-level national policy agenda, the Experimental Finland initiative (2015-2019) opens up an opportunity to investigate the politics of the nationally promoted experimental turn. We examine how the state launched agovernmental-level project aiming for the whole nation to become experimental. The Experimental Finland initiative was Prime Minister Juha Sipilä’s governmental Spearhead Programmes 2015-2019. This paper explores the underlying pol…
Making the circular economy online
The circular economy (CE) is currently generating considerable expectations. The concept describes an aspired future but does not provide clear guidance for policy-making. As policy outcomes often rest on initiatives generated in a bottom-up fashion, our attention must be directed to the ways policies are made accessible and interesting to those who might take the initiative. We claim that on-line publicity plays a key role in this. Our findings …
Expertise and its Tensions
2020, the world is struggling to contain the virus SARS-CoV-2, which has caused the most severe pandemic since the beginning of the 20 th cen
Material politics in the circular economy
Emergent publics and affects in environmental governance
Drawing on the wide social scientific literature on emotions and affects, we highlight the value and potential contribution of the affect theory for understanding public engagement in environmental policy and planning. We suggest that such theorization complements political ontologies that envision concerned publics to arise as citizens are attached to objects and other beings in their everyday life. Focus on emotions and affects enables in-depth…
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…
How does natural resource accounting become powerful in policymaking? A case study of changing calculative frames in local energy policy in Finland
The Challenge of Governance in Regional Forest Planning
The opening up of Finnish forest policymaking to new interest groups and a change to more flexible forms of partnerships at multiple levels signals a transition to new governance relations. Drawing on the concept of institutional capacity, we analyze the governance potential of stakeholder forums, called Regional Forest Councils, to balance economic considerations with ecological ones in preparing Regional Forest Programs. More specifically, we l…
Institutional change from the margins of natural resource use
What does ‘natural capital’ do? The role of metaphor in economic understanding of the environment
At the time of its introduction at the end of the 1980s, the concept of natural capital represented new, more ecologically aware thinking in economics. As a symbol of novel thinking, the metaphor of natural capital stimulated a debate between different disciplinary traditions on the definitions of the concept and research priorities and methods. The concept became a means to control the discourse of sustainable development. In this paper, I focus…
Constituting the space for decision making—Conflicting calculations in a dispute over fuel choice at a local heating plant
The Challenge of Governance in Regional Forest Planning
The opening up of Finnish forest policymaking to new interest groups and a change to more flexible forms of partnerships at multiple levels signals a transition to new governance relations. Drawing on the concept of institutional capacity, we analyze the governance potential of stakeholder forums, called Regional Forest Councils, to balance economic considerations with ecological ones in preparing Regional Forest Programs. More specifically, we l…
Material politics in the circular economy
Emergent publics and affects in environmental governance
Drawing on the wide social scientific literature on emotions and affects, we highlight the value and potential contribution of the affect theory for understanding public engagement in environmental policy and planning. We suggest that such theorization complements political ontologies that envision concerned publics to arise as citizens are attached to objects and other beings in their everyday life. Focus on emotions and affects enables in-depth…
Collaborative governance as a means of navigating the uncertainties of sustainability transformations
The use of disposable packaging is essential to the performance of global food systems, but it has led to global environmental problems. There is a recognised need for collaborative governance, because authoritative governance alone cannot push forward the systemic sustainability transformations required to resolve these challenges. In this qualitative case study, we apply interpretive policy analysis to study actors' motivations and experiences …
Making the circular economy online
The circular economy (CE) is currently generating considerable expectations. The concept describes an aspired future but does not provide clear guidance for policy-making. As policy outcomes often rest on initiatives generated in a bottom-up fashion, our attention must be directed to the ways policies are made accessible and interesting to those who might take the initiative. We claim that on-line publicity plays a key role in this. Our findings …
What does ‘natural capital’ do? The role of metaphor in economic understanding of the environment
At the time of its introduction at the end of the 1980s, the concept of natural capital represented new, more ecologically aware thinking in economics. As a symbol of novel thinking, the metaphor of natural capital stimulated a debate between different disciplinary traditions on the definitions of the concept and research priorities and methods. The concept became a means to control the discourse of sustainable development. In this paper, I focus…
Environmental impact bonds as a transformative policy innovation
Impact bonds have emerged as a policy innovation with the potential to change public policies towards being more outcome-based and pre-emptive – and more effective in answering sustainability challenges. This financial instrument has been used for social problems and only recently for environmental issues. One example is the Nutrient-EIB (environmental impact bond) which is in preparation to be implemented in Southwest Finland. We study involved …
Constituting the space for decision making—Conflicting calculations in a dispute over fuel choice at a local heating plant
From niche support to system building—Perceptions of the transformation potential of policy measures on packaging reuse
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…
Institutional change from the margins of natural resource use
What does ‘natural capital’ do? The role of metaphor in economic understanding of the environment
At the time of its introduction at the end of the 1980s, the concept of natural capital represented new, more ecologically aware thinking in economics. As a symbol of novel thinking, the metaphor of natural capital stimulated a debate between different disciplinary traditions on the definitions of the concept and research priorities and methods. The concept became a means to control the discourse of sustainable development. In this paper, I focus…
Constituting the space for decision making—Conflicting calculations in a dispute over fuel choice at a local heating plant
Institutional change from the margins of natural resource use
The Challenge of Governance in Regional Forest Planning
The opening up of Finnish forest policymaking to new interest groups and a change to more flexible forms of partnerships at multiple levels signals a transition to new governance relations. Drawing on the concept of institutional capacity, we analyze the governance potential of stakeholder forums, called Regional Forest Councils, to balance economic considerations with ecological ones in preparing Regional Forest Programs. More specifically, we l…
How does natural resource accounting become powerful in policymaking? A case study of changing calculative frames in local energy policy in Finland
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…
Emergent publics and affects in environmental governance
Drawing on the wide social scientific literature on emotions and affects, we highlight the value and potential contribution of the affect theory for understanding public engagement in environmental policy and planning. We suggest that such theorization complements political ontologies that envision concerned publics to arise as citizens are attached to objects and other beings in their everyday life. Focus on emotions and affects enables in-depth…
Expertise and its Tensions
2020, the world is struggling to contain the virus SARS-CoV-2, which has caused the most severe pandemic since the beginning of the 20 th cen
Material politics in the circular economy
The politics of making Finland an experimenting nation
As atop-level national policy agenda, the Experimental Finland initiative (2015-2019) opens up an opportunity to investigate the politics of the nationally promoted experimental turn. We examine how the state launched agovernmental-level project aiming for the whole nation to become experimental. The Experimental Finland initiative was Prime Minister Juha Sipilä’s governmental Spearhead Programmes 2015-2019. This paper explores the underlying pol…
Making the circular economy online
The circular economy (CE) is currently generating considerable expectations. The concept describes an aspired future but does not provide clear guidance for policy-making. As policy outcomes often rest on initiatives generated in a bottom-up fashion, our attention must be directed to the ways policies are made accessible and interesting to those who might take the initiative. We claim that on-line publicity plays a key role in this. Our findings …
Temporal challenges of building a circular city district through living-lab experiments
Urban living lab (ULL) experiments are expected to create grounds for circular city transitions but their temporal dynamics remain understudied. This study investigates the linkages of a particular sanitation experiment to a long-term urban development trajectories in the Hiedanranta ULL in the City of Tampere, Finland. The ethnographical study focuses on the temporal matches and mismatches of three interrelated timescales affecting the transform…
Collaborative governance as a means of navigating the uncertainties of sustainability transformations
The use of disposable packaging is essential to the performance of global food systems, but it has led to global environmental problems. There is a recognised need for collaborative governance, because authoritative governance alone cannot push forward the systemic sustainability transformations required to resolve these challenges. In this qualitative case study, we apply interpretive policy analysis to study actors' motivations and experiences …
Environmental impact bonds as a transformative policy innovation
Impact bonds have emerged as a policy innovation with the potential to change public policies towards being more outcome-based and pre-emptive – and more effective in answering sustainability challenges. This financial instrument has been used for social problems and only recently for environmental issues. One example is the Nutrient-EIB (environmental impact bond) which is in preparation to be implemented in Southwest Finland. We study involved …
Introducing the Critical Making Responsibility framework for analyzing responsible innovation processes in grassroots practices
This paper introduces the Critical Making Responsibility Framework. The framework has been developed by the Critical Making consortium in order to analyze responsible innovation processes in grassroots innovation, specifically in the practice of making. The paper builds on a literature review to highlight the shortcomings of current Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) frameworks’ relevance towards grassroots innovation practices, and conver…
From niche support to system building—Perceptions of the transformation potential of policy measures on packaging reuse
Political science (12 works) · Business (9 works) · Economics (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Engineering (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Ecology (5 works) · Public relations (5 works) · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works)