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Sirkku Juhola is affiliated with the University of Helsinki in Finland and has focused their research on environmental science and social sciences, producing a significant body of work on climate change adaptation and sustainability governance.

The scientist's recent research papers include:

  • Connecting climate justice and adaptation planning: An adaptation justice index, 2022, Environmental Science & Policy
  • Transnational municipal networks and climate change adaptation: A study of 377 cities, 2020, Journal of Cleaner Production
  • How to assess sustainability transformations: a review, 2020, Global Sustainability
  • Urban transportation sustainability assessments: a systematic review of literature, 2021, Transport Reviews
  • The existential risk space of climate change, 2022, Climatic Change

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Janina Käyhkö
  • Aleksi Räsänen
  • Tina-Simone Neset
  • Alexandra Malmström
  • Alexandra Jurgilevich

Juhola often publishes in venues such as:

  • Global Sustainability
  • Environmental Science & Policy
  • Climatic Change
  • Regional Environmental Change
  • International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction

The scientist's work spans several main fields of study, with 65 publications in Environmental Science and 39 in Social Sciences.

Their research touches on multiple subfields, including:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

Main research topics covered by Juhola include:

  • Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Climate change impacts on agriculture
  • Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
  • Climate Change Communication and Perception
  • Disaster Management and Resilience
  • Urban Heat Island Mitigation

The scientist has also contributed to a range of book publications across different publishers. These include titles such as Towards enhanced climate change adaptation in the Nordic Region (2023) and Policy Brief: Who is responsible for addressing transboundary climate risks to Nordic trade and food security? (2025), both published by Nordic Council of Ministers eBooks. Two books published by Helsinki University Press eBooks are Climate Change Adaptation in Coastal Cities and Climate Change Adaptation in Coastal Cities: A Guidebook for Citizens, Public Officials and Planners, both from 2021.

Additional book contributions include Justice for Resilient Development in Climate-Stressed Cities (2025) by Cambridge University Press and Comparison and analysis of national climate change adaptation policies in the Nordic region (2023) by TemaNord.

Best Publications

  • Redefining maladaptation

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  • Challenges of adaptation to climate change across multiple scales: A case study of network governance in two European countries

    Sirkku Juhola;Sirkku Juhola;Lisa Westerhoff

  • A systematic review of dynamics in climate risk and vulnerability assessments

    Alexandra Jurgilevich;Aleksi Räsänen;Fanny Groundstroem;Sirkku Juhola;Sirkku Juhola

  • Adaptive climate change governance for urban resilience

    Emily Boyd;Sirkku Juhola

  • The role of scale in integrating climate change adaptation and mitigation in cities

    Mia Landauer;Sirkku Kaarina Juhola;Sirkku Kaarina Juhola;Johannes Klein;Johannes Klein

  • Urban adaptation to climate change in Europe: Challenges and opportunities for cities together with supportive national and European policies

    Birgit Georgi;Rob Swart;Natasha Marinova;Bert van Hove

  • Climate change, multiple stressors and human vulnerability : a systematic review

    Aleksi Räsänen;Sirkku Juhola;Sirkku Juhola;Anja Nygren;Mira Käkönen

  • A Framework for Nordic Actor-Oriented Climate Adaptation Research

    Richard J.T. Klein;Richard J.T. Klein;Sirkku Juhola;Sirkku Juhola

  • Inter-relationships between adaptation and mitigation: a systematic literature review

    Mia Landauer;Mia Landauer;Sirkku Juhola;Sirkku Juhola;Maria Söderholm

  • Incremental, reformistic or transformational: what kind of change do C40 cities advocate to deal with climate change?

    Milja Heikkinen;Tuomas Ylä-Anttila;Sirkku Juhola

  • Exploring Development Futures in a Changing Climate: Frontiers for Development Policy and Practice

    Emily Boyd;Emily Boyd;Natasha Grist;Sirkku Juhola;Valerie Nelson

  • The role of renewable energy policies for carbon neutrality in Helsinki Metropolitan area

    Karna Dahal;Sirkku Juhola;Jari Niemelä

  • Transnational municipal networks and climate change adaptation: A study of 377 cities

    Milja Heikkinen;Aasa Karimo;Johannes Klein;Sirkku Juhola

  • Pan-Eurasian Experiment (PEEX): towards a holistic understanding of the feedbacks and interactions in the land–atmosphere–ocean–society continuum in the northern Eurasian region

    Hanna K. Lappalainen;Hanna K. Lappalainen;Veli-Matti Kerminen;Tuukka Petäjä;Theo Kurten

  • Understanding the framings of climate change adaptation across multiple scales of governance in Europe

    Sirkku Juhola;E. Carina H. Keskitalo;Lisa Westerhoff

  • A framework for analysing regional adaptive capacity assessments: challenges for methodology and policy making

    Sirkku Juhola;Sirkku Juhola;Sylvia Kruse

  • PAN EURASIAN EXPERIMENT (PEEX) - A RESEARCH INITIATIVE MEETING THE GRAND CHALLENGES OF THE CHANGING ENVIRONMENT OF THE NORTHERN PAN-EURASIAN ARCTIC-BOREAL AREAS

    Hanna K Lappalainen;Tuukka Taneli Petäjä;Joni Tapio Kujansuu;Veli-Matti Kerminen

  • Learning in urban climate governance: concepts, key issues and challenges

    Marc Wolfram;Jeroen van der Heijden;Sirkku Kaarina Juhola;James Patterson

  • How to assess sustainability transformations: a review

    Anna Salomaa;Sirkku Juhola

  • Capacities across scales: local to national adaptation policy in four European countries

    Lisa Westerhoff;E. Carina H. Keskitalo;Sirkku Juhola

  • Implementing Local Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Actions: The Role of Various Policy Instruments in a Multi-Level Governance Context

    E. Carina H. Keskitalo;Sirkku Kaarina Juhola;Nina Baron;Håkon Fyhn

  • Environmentalities of urban climate governance in Maputo, Mozambique

    Emily Boyd;Emily Boyd;Jonathan Ensor;Vanesa Castán Broto;Sirkku Juhola;Sirkku Juhola

Frequent Co-Authors

Markku Kulmala
Markku Kulmala University of Helsinki
Emily Boyd
Emily Boyd Lund University
Tuukka Petäjä
Tuukka Petäjä University of Helsinki
Pertti Hari
Pertti Hari University of Helsinki
Jaana Bäck
Jaana Bäck University of Helsinki
Richard J.T. Klein
Richard J.T. Klein Stockholm Environment Institute
Aijun Ding
Aijun Ding Nanjing University
Huadong Guo
Huadong Guo Chinese Academy of Sciences
Timo Vesala
Timo Vesala University of Helsinki
Pirjo Peltonen-Sainio
Pirjo Peltonen-Sainio Natural Resources Institute Finland

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