Teemat
- 1. Nykypäivän geopolitiikka vähenevien resurssien maailmassa / Contemporary geopolitics in a world of diminishing resources
1.1. Discussing geographies of the super-rich: Trump’s return to the White House and the rise of the broligarchy
1.2. Population is a central issue in regional development
1.3. Aika rajallisena resurssina viimeaikaisissa turvallisuuspoliittisissa päätöksentekoprosesseissa Suomessa
1.4. Paikallinen energiajärjestelmä talouden, kestävyyden ja geopolitiikan kaverina: Havaintoja Pohjanmaalta
- 2. Epäonnistumisen maantieteet / Geographies of Failure
2.1. Spacings for Failure
2.2. All tangled up and nowhere to go: Failing the field
2.3. Inconvenience during school-to-work transition: young migrants’ spacing within urban villages in Guangzhou, China
2.4. Learning with Earth’s rhythms: from opinions to shared concerns
- 3. Paneelikeskustelu: Suomen maantieteen opetuksen tila ja opiskelijavalinnat / Panel discussion: The state of geography education in Finland and student selection
- 4. Aika, paikka ja tila maantieteen yhdistävinä elementteinä / Time, place, and space as unifying elements in geography
4.1. Amidst global policy aims of increasing aquaculture production, land-based Recirculating Aquaculture Systems (RAS) are gaining momentum
4.2. Eletty ja kerrottu maahanmuutto: yhteisötyö kohtaamisen ja hoivan välineenä
4.3. Examining whether childhood exposure to different residential green and blue space types influences the risk of antidepressants purchase in adulthood
4.4. Urban greenspaces play a vital role in promoting health, wellbeing, and environmental sustainability
4.5. Age-Friendly Residential Areas (AFRA) methodology in the context of urban geography: a European perspective
- 5. Maankäytön muutos ja menetelmät nykytutkimuksessa / Land use change and methods in current research
5.1. Achieving many of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) requires the effective use of geospatial data to support proper decision-making in terms of spatial planning and resource management
5.2. Exploring factors and pathways explaining sustainable conservation outcomes in Madagascar
5.3. Narratives of Good Extractivism in Kenya’s Taita-Taveta County
5.4. Changes in visits to nature and implications for management– managers’ perspectives from Finland and Canary Islands
5.5. Teollisen aurinkovoimarakentamisen sommittumat
- 6. Big Data maantieteellisessä tutkimuksessa / Big Data in Geographical Research
6.1. Comprehensive, large sample hydrological datasets have provided the basis for advances in many aspects of hydrological research in recent years
6.2. What do a mixture of mobile big data sources reveal about the use of urban green areas: Case Helsinki
6.3. Tiedonlouhinnan mahdollisuudet maaseudun paikallistalouden tutkimuksessa
6.4. ARIFi: Accessibility and Remoteness Index of Finland
6.5. Structural changes in regional Erasmus+ student mobility network in Europe during an era of disruptions
- 7. Yhteinen ilmasto näkökulmana ihmistoimintaan / Common climate as a view to human activity
7.1. Urban areas develop a unique climate system, formed by the temperature differences between urban and rural areas called urban heat island (UHI)
7.2. Over the past decade, the concept of “green infrastructure” (GI) has been gaining attention in attempts to tackle climate change challenges
7.3. Vacant houses, emptying neighbourhoods: The changing spatialities of heating buildings under the climate crisis
7.4. Economic viability of urban greening and cooling of residential buildings as climate change adaptation measures in cool-climate cities
7.5. Beyond generic futures: The warming planet, Finnish population and housing stock in 2080s
- 8. Opiskelijat, opettajat ja opetus: maantiede yhdistävänä tekijänä läpi koulutuspolun / Students, teachers and teaching: geography as unifying factor through education
8.1. Integraatio on keskeinen osa Euroopan unionin toimintaa, ja Erasmus+ -opiskelijaliikkuvuus on merkittävä tekijä Euroopansisäisen alueellisen integraation edistämisessä
8.2. Miten sosiaalisen median asukasryhmät rakentavat paikallisyhteisöjä, vaikuttavat kiinnittymiseen asuinalueella ja luovat alueellista identiteettiä
8.3. Maantiede julkisen toiminnan johtamisessa: aluetieteen opetuksen uudistaminen Vaasan yliopistossa
8.4. Katsomusaineiden opettajat ympäristökasvattajina – opettajien käsityksiä pluralistiseen ympäristökasvatukseen liittyvästä osaamisestaan
8.5. Nuorten geomedialukutaito: yläkoululaisten ja lukiolaisten taidot lukea ja tulkita karttoja ja diagrammeja
8.6. Spatial literacy at the heart – How Novia decided to address major spatial issues facing us today
8.7. Maantieteen opetuksella keskeinen rooli diagrammien kriittisen tarkastelun kehittämisessä
- 9. Geomorfologia, biodiversiteetti ja mallinnus mahdollisuuksina maailman ymmärtämiseen / Geomorphology, biodiversity and modelling as opportunities for understanding the world
9.1. Shoreline displacement occurs due to changes in sea level and coastal morphology (resulting from earth surface processes and coastal engineering)
9.2. Rapidly changing biodiversity underscores the need for effective and scalable ecological monitoring but selecting which species to monitor remains a major challenge
9.3. Selecting among counterfactual methods to evaluate conservation interventions
9.4. Protected areas (PAs) play a key role in mitigating the ongoing global biodiversity crisis, and increasing their extent is central to many international policies such as the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework
9.5. Social and political geology: application on mining-related disputes in Finland
- 10. Kaupungit ja kaupunkilaiset maantieteessä / Cities and urban dwellers in geography
10.1. Clusters of densification: Analyzing structure and functions in densifying urban Finland 2010–2022
10.2. Urban populations face increasing heat-related health risk due to climate change, urbanization, and social inequalities
10.3. Digital technologies can be a great support for the urban co-design process and tools such as generative AI can help non-specialists to better understand possibilities of interventions for the space
10.4. Residents’ perceptions of schools in vulnerable neighbourhoods: trust and willingness to move among understudied residents
10.5. Kaupunkilaisten odotukset Euroopan kulttuuripääkaupunkivuodelle: case Oulu2026
- 11. Tiedon politiikka ja poliittinen tieto maantieteessä / The politics of knowledge and political knowledge in geography
11.1. Cities are under increasing pressure to commodify urban commons
11.2. Does focusing on high profile environmental issues help win elections? Evidence from municipal elections in Finland 2021 and 2025
11.3. How upper secondary school students in Tampere, Finland, conceptualise their futures and the role of engineering in shaping society, providing insights relevant to human geography education and youth empowerment
11.4. Osallistavat lähestymistavat vesiviljelyn suunnittelussa: katsaus EU:n sinisen talouden politiikkaan
11.5. Tieteen ja käytännön rajapinnoilla – autoetnografinen tutkimus vihreän siirtymän osaamiskeskuksen perustamisesta Kainuuseen
- Keynotes Riding: Cartotherapy: trauma-informed participatory mapping in conflict affected societies
- Pellikka: Impacts of land cover change to climate, ecosystem services and livelihoods – Geography United at Taita Research Station in Kenya
- Tynkkynen: Euroopan energiapolitiikka kolmen suurvallan ristipaineessa (on Friday, in Finnish/suomeksi)
Jatko-opiskelijat / Doctoral Researchers United - Call for papers
A session by doctoral researchers, for doctoral researchers at Geography Days 2025. Get to know doctoral researchers from around Finland, present your research, get feedback and hear what others are working on!
The session will happen on Wednesday 22.10. at 12–18 at the city centre campus (P114 Urbarium, Porthania), followed by an evening hang-out.
To attend the session, you will need to submit an abstract by 15.9.2025 See more info from "Call for papers" link below.
You can also leave the same or an other paper to Geography days call for paper -sessions.