Riikka Paloniemi
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1572379 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Riikka Paloniemi |
| PRENOMES | Riikka |
| SOBRENOME | Paloniemi |
| ASSINATURA | PALONIEMI R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Finnish Environment Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2853-535X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 91 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2008 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
A spatially explicit comparison of walkability within city-centre and suburban contexts in Helsinki, Finland
In the city centre, high objective and perceived walkability mostly overlapped. • In the suburban centres, high objective and perceived walkability rarely overlapped. • Pleasant sensory experiences across urban fabrics may induce multi-purpose walking. • Prerequisites for walking differ between the city centre and suburbs. • Urban fabrics should be considered in the planning of walkable cities. Walking and high-quality walking environments are es…
Towards just transition
Advancing climate change causes multiple direct and indirect impacts on ecological systems and human societies remarkably increasing diverse vulnerabilities and threatening human security, health and societal stability. Climate policies on national level have so far failed to systematically address structural causes of vulnerability which, if left unresolved, can hinder effective adaptation outcomes and adaptive abilities in society. In this pape…
Going carless in different urban fabrics
Diverse physical features of urban areas alongside socio-demographic characteristics affect car ownership, and hence the daily mobility choices. As a case of sustainable mobility, we explore how various urban environments and socio-demographics associate with the spatial and social distribution of household car ownership and carlessness in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area, Finland. Three urban fabrics characterizing the study area are established b…
Transformation happens in the unbelievable
Sustainability transformation is necessary. Since “business as usual” is no longer an option, unbelievable future visions are needed to spark change and steer collective action. We discuss how modelling, with its scientific rigor, and inclusive participation, with its sensitivity to power dynamics, can be brought together to complement one another and make unbelievable future visions come true
How does action competence explain young people’s sustainability action
How to support young people’s agency is a key question of sustainability education. Action competence for sustainability is suggested covering the essential components of youth’s readiness to act both individually and collectively, but empirical tests of these associations are scarce. Therefore, this study explores the relationship between action competence and sustainability action among young people. We conducted a national survey of 15 to 29-y…
Forest data governance as a reflection of forest governance
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…
Learning and agency for sustainability transformations
How to secure a sustainable future is currently one of the key challenges across society. Bandura’s theory of human agency provides important insights into this question by recognising the role of individual, proxy and collective agency in initiating action and change. In this article, we conceptualise sustainability agency and discuss psychological features and competencies that are relevant for supporting agency in sustainability education. Age…
Mismatch, empowerment, fatigue or balance? Four scenarios of physical activity up to 2030 in Finland
Sedentary lifestyles and the lack of physical activity (PA) are a major concern among all age groups, and current generations tend to be less fit than the previous ones in the Western World. At the same time, there is an urgent need to cut transport-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Major gains can be foreseen if current car-centred lifestyles and sedentary behaviour are addressed from an integrated perspective. In this study, we explore fu…
Pluralising agency to understand behaviour change in sustainability transitions
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 …
Networks at the science-policy-interface
An approach that has been suggested as potentially addressing the challenges of science-policy-interfaces (SPIs) is the mobilization of existing networks through a ‘network-of-networks’ (NoN) approach. This paper shares empirical findings from a mixed-method study, combining qualitative and quantitative data, that critically evaluates the ‘network-of-networks’ approach for SPIs. To establish whether and how a NoN can help existing networks act mo…
Eklipse
The aim of EKLIPSE is to develop a mechanism to inform European-scale policy on biodiversity and related environmental challenges. This paper considers two fundamental aspects of the decision-support mechanism being developed by EKLIPSE: 1) the engagement of relevant actors from science, policy and society to jointly identify evidence for decision making; and 2) the networking of scientists and other holders of knowledge on biodiversity and other…
How are forest owners' objectives and social networks related to successful conservation
Can green infrastructure help to conserve biodiversity
The gradually decreasing connectivity of habitats threatens biodiversity and ecological processes valuable to humans. Green infrastructure is promoted by the European Commission as a key instrument for the conservation of ecosystems in the EU biodiversity strategy to 2020. Green infrastructure has been defined as a network of natural and semi-natural areas, designed and managed to deliver a wide range of ecosystem services. We surveyed Finnish ex…
The use of knowledge in evidence-informed voluntary conservation of Finnish forests
Governance rescaling and the neoliberalization of nature
In this paper, we investigate how processes of rescaling biodiversity governance downwards, upwards and outwards are interlinked with the increased global and European trends toward the neoliberalization of nature conservation. We furthermore explore who wins and who loses from this interrelationship. We focus on the European Union and specifically on England, Finland, Greece, and Poland, and we pay particular attention to the effects of the ongo…
Forest owner perceptions of institutions and voluntary contracting for biodiversity conservation
The complex role of attitudes toward science in pro-environmental consumption in the Nordic countries
Does belief matter in climate change action
We studied environmental action and its predictors in a multi-scalar context of climate change politics. We asked how belief in climate change, post-materialist values, trust and knowledge predict people’s engagement in environmental action by testing two alternative structural equation models (SEM). In one of these models all these factors directly predicted climate-friendly action, and in the other the effect of political trust, post-materialis…
System justification and the perception of food risks
In the context of daily food consumption, individuals have to evaluate their health and environmental risks based on information provided by the institutions governing food security. At the same time, they have to trust the institutions that both protect them and provide risk information. Study 1 examined how trust in EU policies that assure food safety as well as trust in the information provided by the EU about food risks is associated with ris…
Evolution in Finland's Forest Biodiversity Conservation Payments and the Institutional Constraints on Establishing New Policy
This article analyzes the influence of the preexisting institutional basis on designing and implementing new biodiversity and ecosystem services policies. The way that regulative, normative, and cultural-cognitive institutions condition the currently popular payments for ecosystem services (PES) is analyzed by exploring the evolution of a championed forest biodiversity PES scheme in Finland. Our analysis of the evolution of the PES demonstrates s…
Adapting to the gender order
Forest owners and power
Frames of Scale Challenges in Finnish and Greek Biodiversity Conservation
Global conservation expansion has been associated with significant changes in cross-scale interactions and in the discourses surrounding them engendering new scale challenges in the field of biodiversity conservation. In this paper, we analyze frames of scale challenges by drawing on evidence from eight focus groups of stakeholders and scientists from Greece and Finland. By following a systematic frame analysis we found three dominant frames. Fir…
Ecological and social aspects of biodiversity conservation on private lands
Changing ecological and cultural states and preferences of nature conservation policy
Changing ecological and cultural states and preferences of nature conservation policy
Pluralising agency to understand behaviour change in sustainability transitions
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 …
Evolution in Finland's Forest Biodiversity Conservation Payments and the Institutional Constraints on Establishing New Policy
This article analyzes the influence of the preexisting institutional basis on designing and implementing new biodiversity and ecosystem services policies. The way that regulative, normative, and cultural-cognitive institutions condition the currently popular payments for ecosystem services (PES) is analyzed by exploring the evolution of a championed forest biodiversity PES scheme in Finland. Our analysis of the evolution of the PES demonstrates s…
The use of knowledge in evidence-informed voluntary conservation of Finnish forests
Forest owners and power
How does action competence explain young people’s sustainability action
How to support young people’s agency is a key question of sustainability education. Action competence for sustainability is suggested covering the essential components of youth’s readiness to act both individually and collectively, but empirical tests of these associations are scarce. Therefore, this study explores the relationship between action competence and sustainability action among young people. We conducted a national survey of 15 to 29-y…
Learning and agency for sustainability transformations
How to secure a sustainable future is currently one of the key challenges across society. Bandura’s theory of human agency provides important insights into this question by recognising the role of individual, proxy and collective agency in initiating action and change. In this article, we conceptualise sustainability agency and discuss psychological features and competencies that are relevant for supporting agency in sustainability education. Age…
How are forest owners' objectives and social networks related to successful conservation
System justification and the perception of food risks
In the context of daily food consumption, individuals have to evaluate their health and environmental risks based on information provided by the institutions governing food security. At the same time, they have to trust the institutions that both protect them and provide risk information. Study 1 examined how trust in EU policies that assure food safety as well as trust in the information provided by the EU about food risks is associated with ris…
Ecological and social aspects of biodiversity conservation on private lands
Adapting to the gender order
Frames of Scale Challenges in Finnish and Greek Biodiversity Conservation
Global conservation expansion has been associated with significant changes in cross-scale interactions and in the discourses surrounding them engendering new scale challenges in the field of biodiversity conservation. In this paper, we analyze frames of scale challenges by drawing on evidence from eight focus groups of stakeholders and scientists from Greece and Finland. By following a systematic frame analysis we found three dominant frames. Fir…
Forest data governance as a reflection of forest governance
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…
Networks at the science-policy-interface
An approach that has been suggested as potentially addressing the challenges of science-policy-interfaces (SPIs) is the mobilization of existing networks through a ‘network-of-networks’ (NoN) approach. This paper shares empirical findings from a mixed-method study, combining qualitative and quantitative data, that critically evaluates the ‘network-of-networks’ approach for SPIs. To establish whether and how a NoN can help existing networks act mo…
Can green infrastructure help to conserve biodiversity
The gradually decreasing connectivity of habitats threatens biodiversity and ecological processes valuable to humans. Green infrastructure is promoted by the European Commission as a key instrument for the conservation of ecosystems in the EU biodiversity strategy to 2020. Green infrastructure has been defined as a network of natural and semi-natural areas, designed and managed to deliver a wide range of ecosystem services. We surveyed Finnish ex…
Towards just transition
Advancing climate change causes multiple direct and indirect impacts on ecological systems and human societies remarkably increasing diverse vulnerabilities and threatening human security, health and societal stability. Climate policies on national level have so far failed to systematically address structural causes of vulnerability which, if left unresolved, can hinder effective adaptation outcomes and adaptive abilities in society. In this pape…
Mismatch, empowerment, fatigue or balance? Four scenarios of physical activity up to 2030 in Finland
Sedentary lifestyles and the lack of physical activity (PA) are a major concern among all age groups, and current generations tend to be less fit than the previous ones in the Western World. At the same time, there is an urgent need to cut transport-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Major gains can be foreseen if current car-centred lifestyles and sedentary behaviour are addressed from an integrated perspective. In this study, we explore fu…
Ecological and social aspects of biodiversity conservation on private lands
Changing ecological and cultural states and preferences of nature conservation policy
Forest owners and power
Frames of Scale Challenges in Finnish and Greek Biodiversity Conservation
Global conservation expansion has been associated with significant changes in cross-scale interactions and in the discourses surrounding them engendering new scale challenges in the field of biodiversity conservation. In this paper, we analyze frames of scale challenges by drawing on evidence from eight focus groups of stakeholders and scientists from Greece and Finland. By following a systematic frame analysis we found three dominant frames. Fir…
Does belief matter in climate change action
We studied environmental action and its predictors in a multi-scalar context of climate change politics. We asked how belief in climate change, post-materialist values, trust and knowledge predict people’s engagement in environmental action by testing two alternative structural equation models (SEM). In one of these models all these factors directly predicted climate-friendly action, and in the other the effect of political trust, post-materialis…
System justification and the perception of food risks
In the context of daily food consumption, individuals have to evaluate their health and environmental risks based on information provided by the institutions governing food security. At the same time, they have to trust the institutions that both protect them and provide risk information. Study 1 examined how trust in EU policies that assure food safety as well as trust in the information provided by the EU about food risks is associated with ris…
Evolution in Finland's Forest Biodiversity Conservation Payments and the Institutional Constraints on Establishing New Policy
This article analyzes the influence of the preexisting institutional basis on designing and implementing new biodiversity and ecosystem services policies. The way that regulative, normative, and cultural-cognitive institutions condition the currently popular payments for ecosystem services (PES) is analyzed by exploring the evolution of a championed forest biodiversity PES scheme in Finland. Our analysis of the evolution of the PES demonstrates s…
Adapting to the gender order
Governance rescaling and the neoliberalization of nature
In this paper, we investigate how processes of rescaling biodiversity governance downwards, upwards and outwards are interlinked with the increased global and European trends toward the neoliberalization of nature conservation. We furthermore explore who wins and who loses from this interrelationship. We focus on the European Union and specifically on England, Finland, Greece, and Poland, and we pay particular attention to the effects of the ongo…
Forest owner perceptions of institutions and voluntary contracting for biodiversity conservation
The complex role of attitudes toward science in pro-environmental consumption in the Nordic countries
Can green infrastructure help to conserve biodiversity
The gradually decreasing connectivity of habitats threatens biodiversity and ecological processes valuable to humans. Green infrastructure is promoted by the European Commission as a key instrument for the conservation of ecosystems in the EU biodiversity strategy to 2020. Green infrastructure has been defined as a network of natural and semi-natural areas, designed and managed to deliver a wide range of ecosystem services. We surveyed Finnish ex…
The use of knowledge in evidence-informed voluntary conservation of Finnish forests
Eklipse
The aim of EKLIPSE is to develop a mechanism to inform European-scale policy on biodiversity and related environmental challenges. This paper considers two fundamental aspects of the decision-support mechanism being developed by EKLIPSE: 1) the engagement of relevant actors from science, policy and society to jointly identify evidence for decision making; and 2) the networking of scientists and other holders of knowledge on biodiversity and other…
How are forest owners' objectives and social networks related to successful conservation
Pluralising agency to understand behaviour change in sustainability transitions
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 …
Networks at the science-policy-interface
An approach that has been suggested as potentially addressing the challenges of science-policy-interfaces (SPIs) is the mobilization of existing networks through a ‘network-of-networks’ (NoN) approach. This paper shares empirical findings from a mixed-method study, combining qualitative and quantitative data, that critically evaluates the ‘network-of-networks’ approach for SPIs. To establish whether and how a NoN can help existing networks act mo…
Forest data governance as a reflection of forest governance
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…
Learning and agency for sustainability transformations
How to secure a sustainable future is currently one of the key challenges across society. Bandura’s theory of human agency provides important insights into this question by recognising the role of individual, proxy and collective agency in initiating action and change. In this article, we conceptualise sustainability agency and discuss psychological features and competencies that are relevant for supporting agency in sustainability education. Age…
Mismatch, empowerment, fatigue or balance? Four scenarios of physical activity up to 2030 in Finland
Sedentary lifestyles and the lack of physical activity (PA) are a major concern among all age groups, and current generations tend to be less fit than the previous ones in the Western World. At the same time, there is an urgent need to cut transport-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Major gains can be foreseen if current car-centred lifestyles and sedentary behaviour are addressed from an integrated perspective. In this study, we explore fu…
Going carless in different urban fabrics
Diverse physical features of urban areas alongside socio-demographic characteristics affect car ownership, and hence the daily mobility choices. As a case of sustainable mobility, we explore how various urban environments and socio-demographics associate with the spatial and social distribution of household car ownership and carlessness in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area, Finland. Three urban fabrics characterizing the study area are established b…
Transformation happens in the unbelievable
Sustainability transformation is necessary. Since “business as usual” is no longer an option, unbelievable future visions are needed to spark change and steer collective action. We discuss how modelling, with its scientific rigor, and inclusive participation, with its sensitivity to power dynamics, can be brought together to complement one another and make unbelievable future visions come true
How does action competence explain young people’s sustainability action
How to support young people’s agency is a key question of sustainability education. Action competence for sustainability is suggested covering the essential components of youth’s readiness to act both individually and collectively, but empirical tests of these associations are scarce. Therefore, this study explores the relationship between action competence and sustainability action among young people. We conducted a national survey of 15 to 29-y…
A spatially explicit comparison of walkability within city-centre and suburban contexts in Helsinki, Finland
In the city centre, high objective and perceived walkability mostly overlapped. • In the suburban centres, high objective and perceived walkability rarely overlapped. • Pleasant sensory experiences across urban fabrics may induce multi-purpose walking. • Prerequisites for walking differ between the city centre and suburbs. • Urban fabrics should be considered in the planning of walkable cities. Walking and high-quality walking environments are es…
Towards just transition
Advancing climate change causes multiple direct and indirect impacts on ecological systems and human societies remarkably increasing diverse vulnerabilities and threatening human security, health and societal stability. Climate policies on national level have so far failed to systematically address structural causes of vulnerability which, if left unresolved, can hinder effective adaptation outcomes and adaptive abilities in society. In this pape…
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