Viola Hakkarainen
Biographic Data
| ID | 4462428 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Viola Hakkarainen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Viola |
| FAMILY NAME | Hakkarainen |
| SIGNATURE | HAKKARAINEN V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8965-0947 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Reimagining environmental science & policy
Assessing the epistemic dimension of people–place relationships for inclusive ecosystem governance
Senses of place scholarship have rarely addressed the epistemic dimension that influences how people perceive, interpret and interact with places through their knowledges. This limits our understanding of subjective stances and possible contestations within ecosystem governance. We develop the concept of epistemic bonding and conceptualise it as the subjective connection to a place that is created through (perceived) knowledge and the process of …
Forum Play as a tool for exploring more-than-human relations in the smart city
Current discussions in the smart city literature have introduced the concept of the more-than-human, attempting to uphold the needs of human and nonhuman residents. We argue that these justice-based claims require deeper understandings of academic assumptions regarding not only who decides, but also how they decide on these desirable futures. This study therefore explores perspectives of more-than-human relations of academics working with the sma…
Barriers and Enablers of Interdisciplinary Climate Education
Teachers are at the front line of climate change education (CCE), working to integrate its complex environmental, social and ethical dimensions into their classroom practice. Yet little is known about the barriers to and enablers of implementing interdisciplinarity within CCE. This study investigates Finnish secondary school teachers’ perspectives on interdisciplinary CCE, examining how their practices are shaped by access to resources, training …
Pathways to synergize reductive with relational logics in environmental policy
Transformative policies and policy instruments that effectively and equitably address climate change, biodiversity loss and social-ecological inequality are essential. This paper examines how environmental policy can better integrate reductive with relational logics to accommodate diverse worldviews and improve conservation outcomes. We argue that current approaches are largely defined by reductive logics that function to separate, isolate and ob…
Operational principles for fostering transformative qualities and capacities in higher education sustainability science and practice
Education for sustainability is widely recognised as a critical pathway for driving the transformations needed to address today’s polycrisis. Despite growing theoretical and conceptual advancements in sustainability education, current approaches have not achieved the deep systemic changes required. While university networks and individual institutions increasingly integrate sustainability into their education, concerns persist that transformative…
The endogenous action space in urban biodiversity governance
Rapid and inclusive approaches to biodiversity conservation globally depend on recognizing the multiple values of nature and shifting away from purely economic valuation towards the inclusion of more plural values. However, issues of power, politics, and agency in local level environmental governance contexts remain critically under-examined in regard to working with plural values. In this paper, we shine a spotlight on urban biodiversity conserv…
Entanglements of knowledge and action in sustainability science
The trajectory of the current socio-ecological crises is not improving, motivating several researchers to suggest that sustainability scientists should engage more actively in the transformations our work demands of broader society. Possibilities for action range from placing pressure on powerful economic and political structures through individual advocacy or activism to adopting more reflexive, action-oriented and transdisciplinary approaches i…
Online sustainability education
Purpose Universities strategically organize themselves around sustainability, including transformative goals in teaching and learning. Simultaneously, the role of online education has become more prominent. This study aims to better understand the purpose and process of creating online sustainability education (OSE) and to identify challenges and opportunities for implementing these courses and programs to achieve universities’ broader transforma…
Bridging senses of place and mobilities scholarships to inform social-ecological systems governance
Uncertainty and change are increasingly commonplace as communities respond to impacts of social-ecological change including climate change, and dangerous levels of pollution. Given the extent of these crises, new approaches are needed to support responses. Here we identify challenges and discuss insights that the nexus of Senses of place (SoP) and mobilities research offers in navigating such uncertainty. We conducted a two-round Delphi, followed…
Role-play as a catalyst for justice awareness
Increasing attention to the concept of nature-based solutions (NBS) requests a reflection on the role of young people for just urban development. This study explores how upper secondary school students (age from 16 to 19) relationally learn about environmental justice issues through role-play. Ten workshops were conducted in May 2022, involving 197 students from two upper secondary schools in Helsinki, Finland. We used role-play as a learning act…
Being’ and ‘doing’
Sustainability research is characterized by a plurality of interests, actors, and research traditions. Sustainability is a widely used concept across multiple disciplines and often a cross-cutting theme in different research projects. However, there is a limited understanding of how researchers from multiple disciplinary backgrounds approach sustainability and position themselves in sustainability research as a part of their researcher identity. …
Engaging diverse experts in the global science-policy interface
This longitudinal study explores evidence of learning and reflexivity among experts involved in the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) Values Assessment from 2018 to 2022. As part of an online survey administered at yearly intervals, experts self-reported their views on: i) the aims they attributed to the Values Assessment, ii) their epistemic worldviews, iii) the definition of the multiple va…
Place‐embedded agency
Including different forms of knowledges and views in decision‐making is crucial to managing the complexity of social–ecological systems (SES) in ways that are inclusive and embrace diversity. Sense of place scholarship can explain subjectivity in SES; however, it has hardly been considered together with the literature on knowledge processes, overlooking the epistemic dimension of sense of place and its potential to shed light on the roles and vie…
Transdisciplinary research in natural resources management
Transdisciplinary research often utilizes collaborative ways of knowledge production to enable deliberate transformations towards sustainability. Multiple concepts with varying definitions are applied, leading to confusion in the aims and uses of these concepts. In this article, we review five concepts relevant to the current debate on the new collaborative ways of knowledge production in transdisciplinary research. We focus on the concepts of co…
On the other end of research
Sustainability science has increasingly adopted more action-oriented approaches in an attempt to mobilise and implement a broad knowledge base to sustain human wellbeing and promote sustainable development. There is an increasing recognition of the importance of knowledge exchange (KE) between scientists and end users of research for enhancing social, environmental and economic impacts of research. Here, we explore the process of KE through close…
Grounding Ipbes experts’ views on the multiple values of nature in epistemology, knowledge and collaborative science
This study identifies and analyses the underlying assumptions of experts involved in the first author meeting (FAM) of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)’s Values Assessment, and how they shape understandings of the multiple values of nature. We draw from survey data collected from 94 experts attending the FAM. Respondents self-report the tendencies and aims they bring to the assessment (i…
Transdisciplinary research in natural resources management
Transdisciplinary research often utilizes collaborative ways of knowledge production to enable deliberate transformations towards sustainability. Multiple concepts with varying definitions are applied, leading to confusion in the aims and uses of these concepts. In this article, we review five concepts relevant to the current debate on the new collaborative ways of knowledge production in transdisciplinary research. We focus on the concepts of co…
Grounding Ipbes experts’ views on the multiple values of nature in epistemology, knowledge and collaborative science
This study identifies and analyses the underlying assumptions of experts involved in the first author meeting (FAM) of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)’s Values Assessment, and how they shape understandings of the multiple values of nature. We draw from survey data collected from 94 experts attending the FAM. Respondents self-report the tendencies and aims they bring to the assessment (i…
Engaging diverse experts in the global science-policy interface
This longitudinal study explores evidence of learning and reflexivity among experts involved in the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) Values Assessment from 2018 to 2022. As part of an online survey administered at yearly intervals, experts self-reported their views on: i) the aims they attributed to the Values Assessment, ii) their epistemic worldviews, iii) the definition of the multiple va…
On the other end of research
Sustainability science has increasingly adopted more action-oriented approaches in an attempt to mobilise and implement a broad knowledge base to sustain human wellbeing and promote sustainable development. There is an increasing recognition of the importance of knowledge exchange (KE) between scientists and end users of research for enhancing social, environmental and economic impacts of research. Here, we explore the process of KE through close…
Being’ and ‘doing’
Sustainability research is characterized by a plurality of interests, actors, and research traditions. Sustainability is a widely used concept across multiple disciplines and often a cross-cutting theme in different research projects. However, there is a limited understanding of how researchers from multiple disciplinary backgrounds approach sustainability and position themselves in sustainability research as a part of their researcher identity. …
On the other end of research
Sustainability science has increasingly adopted more action-oriented approaches in an attempt to mobilise and implement a broad knowledge base to sustain human wellbeing and promote sustainable development. There is an increasing recognition of the importance of knowledge exchange (KE) between scientists and end users of research for enhancing social, environmental and economic impacts of research. Here, we explore the process of KE through close…
Grounding Ipbes experts’ views on the multiple values of nature in epistemology, knowledge and collaborative science
This study identifies and analyses the underlying assumptions of experts involved in the first author meeting (FAM) of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)’s Values Assessment, and how they shape understandings of the multiple values of nature. We draw from survey data collected from 94 experts attending the FAM. Respondents self-report the tendencies and aims they bring to the assessment (i…
Transdisciplinary research in natural resources management
Transdisciplinary research often utilizes collaborative ways of knowledge production to enable deliberate transformations towards sustainability. Multiple concepts with varying definitions are applied, leading to confusion in the aims and uses of these concepts. In this article, we review five concepts relevant to the current debate on the new collaborative ways of knowledge production in transdisciplinary research. We focus on the concepts of co…
Place‐embedded agency
Including different forms of knowledges and views in decision‐making is crucial to managing the complexity of social–ecological systems (SES) in ways that are inclusive and embrace diversity. Sense of place scholarship can explain subjectivity in SES; however, it has hardly been considered together with the literature on knowledge processes, overlooking the epistemic dimension of sense of place and its potential to shed light on the roles and vie…
Being’ and ‘doing’
Sustainability research is characterized by a plurality of interests, actors, and research traditions. Sustainability is a widely used concept across multiple disciplines and often a cross-cutting theme in different research projects. However, there is a limited understanding of how researchers from multiple disciplinary backgrounds approach sustainability and position themselves in sustainability research as a part of their researcher identity. …
Engaging diverse experts in the global science-policy interface
This longitudinal study explores evidence of learning and reflexivity among experts involved in the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) Values Assessment from 2018 to 2022. As part of an online survey administered at yearly intervals, experts self-reported their views on: i) the aims they attributed to the Values Assessment, ii) their epistemic worldviews, iii) the definition of the multiple va…
Online sustainability education
Purpose Universities strategically organize themselves around sustainability, including transformative goals in teaching and learning. Simultaneously, the role of online education has become more prominent. This study aims to better understand the purpose and process of creating online sustainability education (OSE) and to identify challenges and opportunities for implementing these courses and programs to achieve universities’ broader transforma…
Bridging senses of place and mobilities scholarships to inform social-ecological systems governance
Uncertainty and change are increasingly commonplace as communities respond to impacts of social-ecological change including climate change, and dangerous levels of pollution. Given the extent of these crises, new approaches are needed to support responses. Here we identify challenges and discuss insights that the nexus of Senses of place (SoP) and mobilities research offers in navigating such uncertainty. We conducted a two-round Delphi, followed…
Role-play as a catalyst for justice awareness
Increasing attention to the concept of nature-based solutions (NBS) requests a reflection on the role of young people for just urban development. This study explores how upper secondary school students (age from 16 to 19) relationally learn about environmental justice issues through role-play. Ten workshops were conducted in May 2022, involving 197 students from two upper secondary schools in Helsinki, Finland. We used role-play as a learning act…
Barriers and Enablers of Interdisciplinary Climate Education
Teachers are at the front line of climate change education (CCE), working to integrate its complex environmental, social and ethical dimensions into their classroom practice. Yet little is known about the barriers to and enablers of implementing interdisciplinarity within CCE. This study investigates Finnish secondary school teachers’ perspectives on interdisciplinary CCE, examining how their practices are shaped by access to resources, training …
Pathways to synergize reductive with relational logics in environmental policy
Transformative policies and policy instruments that effectively and equitably address climate change, biodiversity loss and social-ecological inequality are essential. This paper examines how environmental policy can better integrate reductive with relational logics to accommodate diverse worldviews and improve conservation outcomes. We argue that current approaches are largely defined by reductive logics that function to separate, isolate and ob…
Operational principles for fostering transformative qualities and capacities in higher education sustainability science and practice
Education for sustainability is widely recognised as a critical pathway for driving the transformations needed to address today’s polycrisis. Despite growing theoretical and conceptual advancements in sustainability education, current approaches have not achieved the deep systemic changes required. While university networks and individual institutions increasingly integrate sustainability into their education, concerns persist that transformative…
The endogenous action space in urban biodiversity governance
Rapid and inclusive approaches to biodiversity conservation globally depend on recognizing the multiple values of nature and shifting away from purely economic valuation towards the inclusion of more plural values. However, issues of power, politics, and agency in local level environmental governance contexts remain critically under-examined in regard to working with plural values. In this paper, we shine a spotlight on urban biodiversity conserv…
Entanglements of knowledge and action in sustainability science
The trajectory of the current socio-ecological crises is not improving, motivating several researchers to suggest that sustainability scientists should engage more actively in the transformations our work demands of broader society. Possibilities for action range from placing pressure on powerful economic and political structures through individual advocacy or activism to adopting more reflexive, action-oriented and transdisciplinary approaches i…
Reimagining environmental science & policy
Assessing the epistemic dimension of people–place relationships for inclusive ecosystem governance
Senses of place scholarship have rarely addressed the epistemic dimension that influences how people perceive, interpret and interact with places through their knowledges. This limits our understanding of subjective stances and possible contestations within ecosystem governance. We develop the concept of epistemic bonding and conceptualise it as the subjective connection to a place that is created through (perceived) knowledge and the process of …
Forum Play as a tool for exploring more-than-human relations in the smart city
Current discussions in the smart city literature have introduced the concept of the more-than-human, attempting to uphold the needs of human and nonhuman residents. We argue that these justice-based claims require deeper understandings of academic assumptions regarding not only who decides, but also how they decide on these desirable futures. This study therefore explores perspectives of more-than-human relations of academics working with the sma…
Sociology (11 works) · Political science (8 works) · Ecology (7 works) · Social science (7 works) · Sustainability (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration (6 works) · Environmental Education and Sustainability (5 works) · Reflexivity (5 works) · Sustainability in Higher Education (5 works)