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Social Sciences and Humanities

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2382
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416

Environmental Sciences

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Overview

Jouni Paavola is affiliated with the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to the fields of Environmental Science and Social Sciences. Their research primarily focuses on several interconnected subfields, including Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science, Economics and Econometrics, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, and Political Science and International Relations.

The main topics covered by Paavola's work include Sustainability and Climate Change Governance, Climate Change, Adaptation, and Migration, Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, Energy and Environment Impacts, Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, and Environmental Education and Sustainability.

Paavola has published research in multiple venues, with the most frequent publication outlets being Environmental Research Letters, Environmental Policy and Governance, Sustainability, Business Strategy and the Environment, and Climate Risk Management.

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Paavola are:

  • "Youth is not a political position": Exploring justice claims-making in the UN Climate Change Negotiations, 2020, Global Environmental Change
  • Strongly sustainable development goals: Overcoming distances constraining responsible action, 2022, Environmental Science & Policy
  • Empirical assessment of equity and justice in climate adaptation literature: a systematic map, 2021, Environmental Research Letters
  • Towards a deeper understanding of barriers to national climate change adaptation policy: A systematic review, 2022, Climate Risk Management
  • Household final energy footprints in Nepal, Vietnam and Zambia: composition, inequality and links to well-being, 2020, Environmental Research Letters

Frequent co-authors in Paavola's research network include James D. Ford, Seunghan Lee, Suraje Dessai, Marta Baltruszewicz, and J. Steinberger. Collaborations with these researchers have contributed to the interdisciplinary nature of Paavola's work, spanning environmental science, social science, and policy.

Best Publications

  • Economic Reasons for Conserving Wild Nature

    Andrew Balmford;Aaron Bruner;Philip Cooper;Robert Costanza

  • Valuing nature: lessons learned and future research directions

    R.Kerry Turner;Jouni Paavola;Philip Cooper;Stephen Farber

  • Fair adaptation to climate change

    Jouni Paavola;W. Neil Adger

  • Livelihoods, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in Morogoro, Tanzania

    Jouni Paavola

  • Institutions and environmental governance: A reconceptualization

    Jouni Paavola

  • Ecosystem services and economic theory: integration for policy-relevant research.

    Brendan Fisher;Kerry Turner;Matthew Zylstra;Roy Brouwer

  • Governance for Sustainability: Towards a ‘Thick’ Analysis of Environmental Decisionmaking

    W Neil Adger;Katrina Brown;Jenny Fairbrass;Andrew Jordan

  • Fairness in Adaptation to Climate Change

    W. Neil Adger;Jouni Paavola;Saleemul Huq;M. J. Mace

  • Institutional ecological economics

    Jouni Paavola;W. Neil Adger

  • Multi-level governance and power in climate change policy networks

    Monica Di Gregorio;Monica Di Gregorio;Leandra Fatorelli;Jouni Paavola;Bruno Locatelli;Bruno Locatelli

  • Rationales for public participation in environmental policy and governance: practitioners' perspectives

    Anna Wesselink;Jouni Paavola;Oliver Fritsch;Ortwin Renn

  • Vulnerability of fishery-based livelihoods to the impacts of climate variability and change: insights from coastal Bangladesh

    Md. Monirul Islam;Md. Monirul Islam;Susannah Sallu;Klaus Hubacek;Jouni Paavola

  • The role of institutions in the transformation of coping capacity to sustainable adaptive capacity

    Rachel Berman;Claire Quinn;Jouni Paavola

  • Transformational responses to climate change: beyond a systems perspective of social change in mitigation and adaptation

    Ross Gillard;Andrew Gouldson;Jouni Paavola;James Van Alstine

  • Correcting a fundamental error in greenhouse gas accounting related to bioenergy

    Helmut Haberl;Detlef Sprinz;Marc Bonazountas;Pierluigi Cocco

  • Interplay of actors, scales, frameworks and regimes in the governance of biodiversity

    Jouni Paavola;Andrew Gouldson;Tatiana Kluvánková-Oravská

  • Climate policy integration in the land use sector: Mitigation, adaptation and sustainable development linkages

    Monica Di Gregorio;Monica Di Gregorio;Dodik Ridho Nurrochmat;Jouni Paavola;Intan Maya Sari

  • Protected Areas Governance and Justice: Theory and the European Union’s Habitats Directive

    Jouni Paavola

  • Justice and adaptation to climate change

    Jouni Paavola;W Neil Adger;Neil Adger

  • Limits and barriers to adaptation to climate variability and change in Bangladeshi coastal fishing communities

    Md. Monirul Islam;Md. Monirul Islam;Susannah Sallu;Klaus Hubacek;Jouni Paavola

  • Toward Justice in Adaptation to Climate Change

    W. Neil Adger;Jouni Paavola;Saleemul Huq

Frequent Co-Authors

W. Neil Adger
W. Neil Adger University of Exeter
Suraje Dessai
Suraje Dessai University of Leeds
Gill Seyfang
Gill Seyfang University of East Anglia
Monica Di Gregorio
Monica Di Gregorio University of Leeds
Rhys E. Green
Rhys E. Green University of Cambridge
Klaus Hubacek
Klaus Hubacek University of Groningen
Piers M. Forster
Piers M. Forster University of Leeds
Andy Gouldson
Andy Gouldson University of Leeds
Saleemul Huq
Saleemul Huq Independent University
Lindsay C. Stringer
Lindsay C. Stringer University of York

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