Research output per year
Research output per year
DSc. Agriculture and Forestry
Research activity per year
My research focuses mainly on human aspects of sustainable agricultural production, with current and prior work on agroecology and environmental topics including: high nature value farming, results-based payments for biodiversity and ecosytem services, agri-environmental policy, heritage landscapes (traditional rural biotopes), innovation for farmland nature management,local foods, ecosystem services.
I completed my doctoral dissertation in 2017. Post-doctoral activities include: Report series on results-based payments (2020 National Trust, UK); Grasslands, biodiversity and business report (2019 Latvian Fund for Nature), Horizon 2020 project HNV-Link (2018); Finnish inventory of demonstration farms for (2017 Horizon2020 project Plaid Peer to Peer project. I am vice-chair of Cultural Landscapes Association, Finland and represent the organistion in PerinneELO Finnish Expert Group of Semi-natural Grasslands.
My teaching experience includes supervision of final projects at bachelor and master's levels, HENVI course in food loss and food waste, and bachelor-level courses in restoration and management of cultural landscapes.
Other experience includes Millennium Ecosystem Assessment follow-up programme and other activities at United Nations Environment Programme in Kenya, approximately five years organic/biodynamic farming including as a herd manager, and farm-based field research.
Deputy member, Perinnebiotooppien päivitysinventointien ohjaus- ja arviointityöryhmä (Advisory and Steering Working Group for the National Cultural landscapes Inventory 2019-2021)
Member representing Cultural Landscapes Association, Finland, Perinnebiotooppien hoidon asiantuntijaryhmä PerinneELO
Vice Chair, Perinnemaisemayhdistys (Cultural Landscapes Association, Finland)
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review
Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › General public
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › General public
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › General public
15/09/2017 → 15/04/2018
Project: Other project
Traci Birge (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
Traci Birge (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
Traci Birge (Member of organizing committee)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars
Traci Birge (Reviewer)
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Peer review of manuscripts
Traci Birge (Participant)
Activity: Other activity types › Types for other activities - Other
01/01/2018
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media