Riikka Paloniemi

Unit director

PhD, Docent of Environmental Policy (University of Helsinki)

Kai Widell

Contact information

Email: firstname.lastname@syke.fi
Phone: +358 295 251 493

Finnish Environment Institute (Syke)
Societal change
Latokartanonkaari 11
FI-00790 Helsinki

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Duties

Responsible for leading Societal change unit.   

Expertise

  • Environmental and biodiversity policy, knowledge use in planning and decision-making, open data and science
  • Environmental justice, power, public participation and engagement
  • Behavioral change, social learning, sustainability agency
  • Nature-based solutions, health and well-being impacts of nature, planetary health

Publications and CV

Selected articles

  • Arola T.., Aulake M., Ott A.., Lindholm M.., Kouvonen P.., Virtanen P.., Paloniemi R. (2023) The impacts of nature connectedness on children's well-being: Systematic literature review. Journal of Environmental Psychology (85): 101913. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2022.101913

  • Koskela I.-M., Paloniemi R. (2022) Learning and agency for sustainability transformations: building on Bandura’s theory of human agency. Environmental Education Research. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2022.2102153.

  • Rantala S., Swallow B., Lähteenmäki-Uutela A., Paloniemi R. (2022). Forest data governance as a reflection of forest governance: Institutional change and endurance in Finland and Canada. Environmental Science & Policy, 136: 751-760. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2022.07.031

  • Rekola A. Paloniemi R. (2022) Politics of knowledge use: epistemic governance in marine spatial planning. Environmental Policy and Planning. https://doi.org/10.1080/1523908X.2022.2060807 

  • Karjalainen, L., E., Tiitu, M., Lyytimäki, J., Helminen, V., Tapio, P., Tuominen, A., Vasankari, T., Lehtimäki, J., Paloniemi, R. (2021). Going carless in different urban fabrics: socio-demographics of household car ownership. Transportation. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11116-021-10239-8

  • Kelemen E., Pataki G., Konstantinou Z., Varumo L., Paloniemi R., Pereira T., Sousa-Pinto I., Vandewalle M., Young J. (2021) Networks at the science-policy-interface: Challenges, opportunities and the viability of the ‘network-of-networks’ approach. Environmental Science & Policy 123: 91-98. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2021.05.008

  • Huttunen, S. Kaljonen M., Lonkila A., Rantala S., Rekola A., Paloniemi R. (2021) Pluralising agency to understand behaviour change in sustainability transitions. Energy Research & Social Science 76, 102067. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2021.102067

  • Halonen J., Erhola M., Furman E., Haahtela T., Jousilahti P., Barouki R., Bergman Å., Billo N.E., Fuller R., Haines A., Kogevinas M., Kolossa-Gehring M., Krauze K., Lanki T., Vicente J., Messerli P., Nieuwenhuijsen M., Paloniemi R., Peters A., Posch K-H, Timonen P., Vermeulen R., Virtanen SM, Bousquet J., Antó JM (2020) The Helsinki Declaration 2020: Europe That Protects. Invited comment in The Lancet Planetary Health: 4(11): E503-505. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2020.110600

  • Paloniemi R., Hujala T., Rantala S., Harlio A., Salomaa A., Primmer E., Pynnönen S., Arponen A. (2018). Integrating ecological and social knowledge to support targeting of voluntary biodiversity conservation. Conservation letters 11, 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1111/conl.12340

  • Paloniemi R., Apostolopoulou E., Cent J., Bormpoudakis D., Scott A., Grodzinska-Jurczak M., Tzanopoulos J., Koivulehto M., Pietrzyk-Kaszynska A., Pantis J. D. (2015). Public participation and environmental justice in biodiversity governance in Finland, Greece, Poland and the UK. Environment Policy and Governance 25(5): 330-342. https://doi.org/10.1002/eet.1672

Published 2022-10-13 at 13:16, updated 2023-07-25 at 13:51

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