Roundwood and forest industry products markets, trade and marketing, wood construction business development, product and service quality, land owner and consumer behaviour, forest industry business strategy analyses, bio-energy markets and policies.
Main projects: KÄPY (2016-2019), Wood Vision 2025 (2018-2019).
Dept. Forest Sciences, Viikki
Latokartanonkaari 7
FI-00014 University of Helsinki
Room 514, P.O. Box 27
Tel. +358 05 03149158
E-mail: ritva.toivonen@helsinki.fi
Skype:
Web: Researchgate, Tuhat
Responsible business management in bioeconomy, corporate sustainability, organizational innovation, international trade of forest products, sustainable consumption, timber supply behaviour, forest bioenergy.
Projects include: PERFORM (2018-2022), FORPLAN (2019-2021), ORBIT (2017-2020), NOFOBE (2016-2020), CEGEBE (2016-2018), HU-CIFOR (2016-2017), FORESCOF (2014-2017), ESGRI (2013-2017), W3B (2013-2016).
Dept. Forest Sciences , Viikki
Latokartanonkaari 7
FI-00014 University of Helsinki
Room 514, P.O. Box 27
Tel. +358 50 4150219
E-mail: anne.toppinen@helsinki.fi
Skype: anne.toppinen
Web: Researchgate, Google scholar, Tuhat
Dept. Forest Sciences Viikki
Latokartanonkaari 7
FI-00014 University of Helsinki
Room 514, P.O. Box 27
Tel. +358 09 191 57982
E-mail: sami.berghall@helsinki.fi
Web: Researchgate, Google scholar, Tuhat
Projects include: FORPLAN (2019-2021).
Socio-ecological systems (biodiversity and ecosystem services), business sustainability, sustainability narratives (e.g. green, bio and circular economy) and sustainability transformations.
Projects include: GreenPole, PERFORM (2018-2022), OPES (2018-2021), CEGEBE (2016-2018), HU-CIFOR (2016-2017), ESGRI (2013-2016). PhD dissertation here.
Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science
Dept. Forest Sciences, Viikki
Latokartanonkaari 7
FI-00014 University of Helsinki
Room 531, P.O. Box 27
Tel. +358 50 4160780
E-mail: dalia.damato@helsinki.fi
Skype: dalia.damato
Web: Researchgate, Google scholar, Tuhat
Economics of forest management, climate change and the forest sector, applications of operations research in forest economics, business economics and finance in the forest sector
Projects include: PERFORM (2018-2022), ECOSUS 2013-2016, LOGGING 2018.
Web: Researchgate, Google scholar, Tuhat
Consumer economics in bioeconomy, socio-cultural consumer research, consumer-driven service development, sustainability in everyday life.
Main project: ORBIT (2017-2020).
Dept. Economics and Management, Viikki
Latokartanonkaari 5
FI-00014 University of Helsinki
E-mail: eliisa.kylkilahti@helsinki.fi
Web: Researchgate, Google scholar, Tuhat
Forest products markets, structural changes, wood construction, new wood-based products, sustainable production and consumption, climate change mitigation, LULUCF, forest sector foresight and outlook studies, futures studies, forest economics, forest sector modelling, econometrics
Main projects: REDEEM (2022-2027), ForestNavigator (2022-2026), MeeMi (2020-2023), SubWood (2020-2022).
Email: elias.hurmekoski@helsinki.fi
Web: ResearchGate
How local public administrations influence the diffusion of wooden multistory construction in Finland. Citizen acceptance for wooden multistory construction across Europe.
Projects: KÄPY (2016-2019), KNOW (2020-2022), DecarbonHome (2020-2023)
Dept. Forest Sciences, Viikki
Latokartanonkaari 7
FI-00014 University of Helsinki
Room 525, P.O. Box 27
E-mail: Florencia.franzini@helsinki.fi
Interests: Co-management systems for the sustenance of natural resources; People-nature relations in the context of National Parks and other forms of protected areas; Anthropological inquiry and Qualitative methods in the Social Sciences; Use of Interdisciplinary theories on Power, Knowledge-integration, Agency, Socio-ecology, and Cultural Resilience.
Projects: GreenPole (2021-2025)
Dept. Forest Sciences, Viikki
Latokartanonkaari 7
00790, University of Helsinki
Room 531
E-mail: akonwi.ayonghe@helsinki.fi
Phone: (+358) 029 415 7987
Research fields of interest include: Biodiversity conservation, Participatory approaches, Wildlife management.
PhD research focuses on Payment for Ecosystem Services as a means to enable wildlife conservation and reduce conflicts in community reserves (i.e., protected areas) within Punjab, India. This research is carried out as an employee of the Indian Forest Services.
Dept. Forest Sciences, Viikki.
Email: geethanjali.mariaselvam@helsinki.fi
Phone: +358 44 958 2858
WhatsApp: +91 8130930383
Webpage: Academia
End-user approach to development wood-based construction sector, with focus on wooden multistorey buildings, role of institutions in construction, drivers and barriers for the industry development. Thesis on progress within theme: views on detached homebuilders and prefabricated housing industry.
Main project: KNOW (2020-2022)
Dept. Forest Sciences, Viikki
Latokartanonkaari 7
FI-00014 University of Helsinki
Room 511, P.O. Box 27
Email: jaakko.a.jussila@helsinki.fi
Forest Economics, forest products marketing, strategic foresight, corporate foresight, open foresight, sustainability, strategic Management
Main project: MEEMI (2020-2022)
Dept. Forest Sciences, Viikki
Latokartanonkaari 7
FI-00014, University of Helsinki
P.O. Box 27
Email: aleksi.heiskanen@helsinki.fi
As part of the DECARBON HOME -project I study actor networks in the low carbon building and pathways towards sustainability transition. The research connects many fields and areas, such as environmental policy, future studies, eco-innovation and hybrid solutions of sustainable construction, including multistorey wood construction.
Main Project: DECARBON HOME (2020-2023)
Dept. Forest Sciences, Viikki
Latokartanonkaari 7
FI-00014 University of Helsinki
tel. +358 50 5996497
E-mail: anne.viljanen@helsinki.fi
Twitter: @anneviljanen
Interests: Local policy network, public-private partnership, and industry capabilities toward circular economy on wood-based construction in Finland. Employing policy network theories and social network analysis as an analytical approach.
Project(s): DECARBON HOME (2020-2023)
Dept. Forest Sciences, Viikki
Latokartanonkaari 7
00790, University of Helsinki
Room 525
Email: rayhanur.rahman@helsinki.fi
Researching the possibility of engaging in environmentally sustainable business by utilizing “Industry 4.0 Technologies”. The main topics in the research are environmental sustainability, international business and marketing, and Industry 4.0.
Dept. Forest Sciences, Viikki
Latokartanonkaari 7
FI-00014 University of Helsinki
Email: alan.ahi@helsinki.fi
Forest planning practices, service development, non-industrial private forest owners, forest owners’ objectives, sustainable forest use, democracy and power, social conservation sciences, critical discourse analysis.
Dept. Forest Sciences, Viikki
Latokartanonkaari 7
FI-00014 University of Helsinki
Tel. +358 44 9118160
E-mail: tuomo.takala@helsinki.fi
Non-industrial private forest owners in Finland and multiple use of forests. In particular, changing forest owner motivations, objectives as well a as their service needs and expectations. Both quantitative and qualitative approaches are employed. PhD thesis (2019) available here and another example of research here.
Competitiveness, sustainability, internationalization and trade, bioeconomy businesses, system transformation. Recent PhD dissertation here.
Projects include: PERFORM (2018-2022), FORPLAN (2019-2021), ORBIT (2017-2020).
Research topics include decision support services for private forest owners and use of knowledge in multiple use forests and forestry, and the forest identities and forest relationships of Finnish citizens. Doctoral dissertation (2020) available here.
Projects include: VaiMetsä 2019-2021.
End-user Approach to Development of Business Ecosystems in the Wood-Based Building Sector, with focus on the role of environmental sustainability criteria. Both quantitative and qualitative approaches are employed.
Main project: Käpy (2017-19), in particular “Living in a wooden high-rise - The expectations and needs of consumers”.
Public policy, Collaborative governance, Land use policy, Network analysis, Ecosystem-based management, Large-scale land-based investments. An example of recent research here.
Projects include: PERFORM (2018-2022) and HU-CIFOR (2016-2017).
Economics of forest management, especially taking quality and climatic implications into account. An example of recent research here.