Curriculum vitae

CURRENT POSITIONS: Professor of environmental policy, University of Helsinki, joint position with Faculty of Social Sciences, Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, and Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry *** Editorial Board Member, Ecological Economics (Elsevier); International Journal of Learning and Change (Inderscience)  *** Consulting Editor, Global Challenges (Wiley)

EDUCATION:

PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 1990

MSc, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland, 1984

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Socio-cognitive aspects of sustainability. Environmental risk governance. Recent empirical work on strategic environmental crisis management in urban areas.

PUBLICATIONS: Sustainability Networks: Cognitive Tools for Expert Collaboration in Social-Ecological Systems (Routledge, London, 2008) *** Institutions in Environmental Management: Constructing Mental Models and Sustainability (Routledge, London, 1999) *** Promoting Interdisciplinary Research: The Case of the Academy of Finland (Academy of Finland, Helsinki, 2005) *** Reindeer Management in Northernmost Europe: Linking Practical and Scientific Knowledge in Social-Ecological Systems (Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, 2006) *** Over 100 peer-reviewed scientific articles or book chapters

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS: Co-Author of Science Book of the Year 2020 (Vuoden tiedekirja) awarded by The Federation of Finnish Learned Societies, Tieteen vapaus ja tutkijan sananvapaus *** Finnish Foundations’ Professor Pool sabbatical year research fellowship, 2014 *** Member of The Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters, since 2012 *** Co-Author of book winning the Finnish State Award for Public Information 2012 (Valtion tiedonjulkistamispalkinto), Ihminen ja ympäristö *** Academy of Finland senior fellow and visiting scholar, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2006 *** World Futures Studies Federation XIII World Conference Editorial Committee’s Special Mention, 1993 *** Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at University of California, Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 1990-1991 *** American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Environmental Science and Engineering fellow, Washington DC, 1990 *** Harold D. Lasswell award for the best article in Policy Sciences, 1990

PAST POSITIONS: Expert Counsellor on the Environment, Supreme Administrative Court of Finland, 2000-2024 *** Professor of environmental protection (esp. environmental strategies and technology assessment), Helsinki University of Technology, Finland, 1999-2008 *** Director and professor of the Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland, 1996-1999 *** Associate professor of environmental management, Maastricht School of Management, the Netherlands, 1993-1996 *** Member of the Council of the University of the Arctic, 1998-2001