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Seppo Junnila

Seppo Junnila

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
46
Citations
6554
World Ranking
6183
National Ranking
93

Overview

Seppo Junnila is affiliated with Aalto University in Finland and conducts research primarily in the fields of Environmental Science and Engineering. Their scholarly work extensively addresses topics related to sustainability, building optimization, and environmental impacts, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach that bridges technical and social dimensions.

Their main fields of study include Environmental Science with 31 publications and Engineering with 29 publications. Subfields emphasize Building and Construction (21 publications), Environmental Engineering (18 publications), and Economics and Econometrics (11 publications). Additional focus areas include Global and Planetary Change and Social Psychology.

The primary topics covered by Junnila's research include:

  • Environmental Impact and Sustainability
  • Sustainable Building Design and Assessment
  • Building Energy and Comfort Optimization
  • Facilities and Workplace Management
  • Housing Market and Economics
  • Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services

Junnila has contributed to several recent papers covering a range of environmental and sustainability issues in the built environment. Notable publications include:

  • "Cities as carbon sinks-classification of wooden buildings," 2020, Environmental Research Letters
  • "Spatial consumption-based carbon footprint assessments - A review of recent developments in the field," 2020, Journal of Cleaner Production
  • "A Review of the Impact of Green Building Certification on the Cash Flows and Values of Commercial Properties," 2020, Sustainability
  • "Blockchain in real estate: Recent developments and empirical applications," 2022, Land Use Policy
  • "Carbon sequestration and storage potential of urban residential environment - A review," 2022, Sustainable Cities and Society

Junnila frequently collaborates with co-authors including Ali Amiri, Juudit Ottelin, Jussi Vimpari, Jukka Heinonen, and Anniina Saari. These partnerships have contributed to advancing research across multiple intersecting domains of sustainability, urban planning, and economic aspects of building technologies.

Junnila's work is disseminated through recurring publication venues such as CIB Conferences, Environmental Research Letters, Sustainability, Buildings, and the SSRN Electronic Journal. This spread indicates active engagement with both practical and theoretical aspects of environmental and construction research communities.

Best Publications

  • Life-Cycle Assessment of Office Buildings in Europe and the United States

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  • Life-Cycle Environmental Effects of an Office Building

    Seppo Junnila;Arpad Horvath

  • Combining life cycle costing and life cycle assessment for an analysis of a new residential district energy system design

    Miro Ristimäki;Antti Säynäjoki;Jukka Heinonen;Seppo Junnila

  • Situated lifestyles: I. How lifestyles change along with the level of urbanization and what the greenhouse gas implications are—a study of Finland

    Jukka Heinonen;Mikko Jalas;Jouni K Juntunen;Sanna Ala-Mantila

  • Relationship between urbanization, direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions, and expenditures: : A multivariate analysis

    Sanna Ala-Mantila;Jukka Heinonen;Seppo Junnila

  • Residential energy consumption patterns and the overall housing energy requirements of urban and rural households in Finland

    Jukka Heinonen;Seppo Junnila

  • A scenario analysis of the life cycle greenhouse gas emissions of a new residential area

    Antti Säynäjoki;Jukka Heinonen;Seppo Junnila

  • Implications of urban structure on carbon consumption in metropolitan areas

    Jukka Heinonen;Seppo Junnila

  • Can life-cycle assessment produce reliable policy guidelines in the building sector?

    Antti Säynäjoki;Antti Säynäjoki;Jukka Heinonen;Jukka Heinonen;Seppo Junnila;Arpad Horvath

  • Situated lifestyles: II. The impacts of urban density, housing type and motorization on the greenhouse gas emissions of the middle-income consumers in Finland

    Jukka Heinonen;Mikko Jalas;Jouni K Juntunen;Sanna Ala-Mantila

  • Cities as carbon sinks - Classification of wooden buildings

    Ali Amiri;Juudit Ottelin;Jaana Sorvari;Seppo Junnila

  • Empirical Comparison of Process and Economic Input-Output Life Cycle Assessment in Service Industries

    Seppo I. Junnila

  • To each their own? The greenhouse gas impacts of intra-household sharing in different urban zones

    Sanna Ala-Mantila;Juudit Ottelin;Jukka Heinonen;Seppo Junnila

  • A life cycle assessment of two residential buildings using two different LCA database-software combinations: Recognizing uniformities and inconsistencies

    Nargessadat Emami;Jukka Heinonen;Björn Marteinsson;Antti Säynäjoki

  • Spatial consumption-based carbon footprint assessments - A review of recent developments in the field

    Jukka Heinonen;Juudit Ottelin;Sanna Ala-Mantila;Thomas Wiedmann

  • New Energy Efficient Housing Has Reduced Carbon Footprints in Outer but Not in Inner Urban Areas

    Juudit Ottelin;Jukka Heinonen;Seppo Junnila

  • A Carbon Consumption Comparison of Rural and Urban Lifestyles

    Jukka Heinonen;Seppo Junnila

  • Pre-use phase LCA of a multi-story residential building: Can greenhouse gas emissions be used as a more general environmental performance indicator?

    Jukka Heinonen;Antti Säynäjoki;Juha Matti Junnonen;Amalia Pöyry

  • What can we learn from consumption-based carbon footprints at different spatial scales? Review of policy implications

    Juudit Ottelin;Sanna Ala-Mantila;Jukka Heinonen;Thomas Wiedmann

  • Dense downtown living more carbon intense due to higher consumption: a case study of Helsinki

    Jukka Heinonen;Riikka Kyrö;Seppo Junnila

  • Case study on the carbon consumption of two metropolitan cities

    Jukka Heinonen;Seppo Junnila

  • Carbon and material footprints of a welfare state : Why and how governments should enhance green investments

    Juudit Ottelin;Juudit Ottelin;Jukka Heinonen;Seppo Junnila

  • Greenhouse gas emissions from flying can offset the gain from reduced driving in dense urban areas

    Juudit Ottelin;Jukka Heinonen;Jukka Heinonen;Seppo Junnila

Frequent Co-Authors

Arpad Horvath
Arpad Horvath University of California, Berkeley
Thomas Wiedmann
Thomas Wiedmann University of New South Wales

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