Tino Johansson

M.Sc., Ph.D. student , Coordinator of the Master’s Degree Programme in Geoinformatics

Department of Geography
P.O.Box 64 (Gustaf Hällströmin katu 2)
FIN-00014 University of Helsinki

tel. +358 9 191 51045
fax +358 9 191 50760

Tino.Johansson@helsinki.fi

Interests
Activities
Research
Lectures
Selected articles and papers

Interests:

Geographical Information Systems (GIS)
introducing GIS into upper secondary and secondary school education
in-service teacher training
wildlife management & conservation
development studies
community-based natural resource management
participatory GIS

Activities:

coordinator of the Master’s Degree Programme in Geoinformatics
finalizing the Ph.D. dissertation
courses and lectures on GIS
occasional trekking and hunting in the backwoods
provincial defense forces

Research:

Participatory GIS as a tool for natural resource management
Beasts on Fields. Human-Wildlife Conflicts on the Nature-Culture Borderlands. Ph.D. dissertation
GISAS (Geographical Information Systems Applications for Schools) project 2003-2006 funded by the European Union Socrates/MINERVA programme

Lectures:

GIS in geography education (4 ECTS); a virtual course
Participatory GIS in development studies ( 3 ECTS)

Selected articles and papers:

Johansson, Tino (Ed.) (2006). Geographical Information Systems Applications for Schools – GISAS. Helsingin yliopiston maantieteen laitoksen julkaisuja A 141. Dark Oy, Vantaa. (In Press).
Johansson, Tino and Pellikka, Petri (2006). GISAS – Geographical Information Systems applications for schools, 317-318. In, Suarez, Juan and Bela, Markus (Eds.): AGILE 2006. 9 th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science. Shaping the future of Geographic Information Science in Europe. College of Geoinformatics, University of West Hungary. ALTO Press, Hungary.
Johansson, Tino (2005). GIS-täydennyskoulutuskurssit ja opettajien paikkatieto-osaaminen. Terra 117 (4), 282-284.
Johansson, Tino and Pellikka, Petri (2005). Interactive Geographical Information Systems (GIS) Applications for European Upper Secondary Schools, 505-509. In Méndez Vilas, A., Gonzales Pereira, B., Mesa Gonzáles, J. and Mesa Gonzáles, J.A. (Eds.): Recent Research Developments in Learning Technologies (2005).Vol. 2. III International Conference on Multimedia & ICT’s in Education, FORMATEX, Caceres, Spain.
Johansson, Tino (2005). Introducing GIS Into Upper Secondary Schools in Europe, 1, 7. GIS educator 1/2005.
Johansson, Tino and Kaivola, Taina (2004). Implementing Pedagogical Geographical Information Systems Applications in Pre-Service Teacher Training. Research in Geographic Education 6, 5-17.
Johansson, Tino & Kaivola, Taina (2003). Paikkatieto koulun lähiympäristö-opetuksessa. Terra 115 (3), 225-231.
Johansson, Tino (2003). GIS in Teacher Education - Facilitating GIS Applications in Secondary School Geography, 285-293. In Virrantaus, Kirsi ja Tveite, Håvard (Eds.): ScanGIS'2003 - The 9th Scandinavian Research Conference on Geographical Information Science, 4-6 June 2003, Espoo, Finland - Proceedings. Department of Surveying, Helsinki University of Technology. link
Johansson, Tino (2003). Social Capital and Community-Based Natural Resource Management in Southern Africa, 119-130. In Kontinen, T. & Seppänen, M. (Eds.): Development –concepts, policies and practices. Essays in the memory of Michael Cowen. Yearbook of the Finnish Society for Development Studies 8, Helsinki 2003.

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