
SERM - Research Center for Socially and Environmentally Responsible Mining
Leaders
SERM is a platform for the social scientific mining research focusing on the social, cultural, environmental and legal dimensions of mining industry, minerals and raw materials. SERM offers high quality research and education based on social scientific mining, minerals and material research. Our main fields are in environmental policy, social geography, geospatial studies, and law studies. Our themes are f. ex. experienced environmental and societal impacts of mining industry, social movements and activism, environmental and social impact assessments, conflict resolution, mining policy and legislation, policy instruments, community development, acceptance, attitudes, perceived risks, environmental justice, land-use, forms of governance, and paths to sustainability transition.
We support natural scientific and technological research and use of infrastructures by providing expertise on the social aspects of mining and materials, and the use of natural resources.
In addition to ongoing research, we actively discuss about the future possibilities, challenges, and needs for social scientific mining research especially about responsible and sustainable mining, and the role of mining in circular economy and sustainability transition. We also organize seminars and workshops and write popular texts.
Got interested? Please, contact the head of the SERM, adjunct professor Tuija Mononen, tuija.mononen(@)uef.fi .
SERM in Twitter: @UEFSerm
Cooperation
-
Braun, Adrian (2020): CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY IN THE BARENTS REGION:
A SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS OF METAL MININGhttps://erepo.uef.fi/handle/123456789/22483
Lyra, Mariana Galvão (2021): “Against the plunder of our ores” : The Anti-Mining Movement in Brazil Between 2013-2017
https://erepo.uef.fi/handle/123456789/26346?locale-attribute=en
Ahlberg, Eetu (2019): From livelihood to a hazardous waste – a case study of asbestos mine in Paakkila
https://erepo.uef.fi/handle/123456789/21248?locale-attribute=en
Keywords
Leaders
Professors
-
Ismo Pölönen
Professor -
Lasse Peltonen
ProfessorDepartment of Geographical and Historical Studies, Environmental Policy -
Timo Kumpula
ProfessorDepartment of Geographical and Historical Studies, Geography -
Rauno Sairinen
ProfessorDepartment of Geographical and Historical Studies, Environmental Policy
Senior Researchers
-
Sonja Kivinen
University LecturerFaculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies, Department of Geographical and Historical Studies -
Ismo Björn
Senior ResearcherFaculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies, Karelian Institute -
Jukka Sihvonen
University TeacherFaculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies, Department of Geographical and Historical Studies
Post-doctoral Researchers
-
Tuija Jartti
Project ResearcherFaculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies, Department of Geographical and Historical Studies -
Diana Carolina Arbelaez Ruiz
Postdoctoral ResearcherFaculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies, Business School
Doctoral Researchers
-
Johanna Leino
Doctoral researcher -
Juha Mikael M. Kotilainen
Doctoral ResearcherFaculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies, Department of Geographical and Historical Studies -
Olga Sydd
Early Stage ResearcherFaculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies, Department of Geographical and Historical Studies -
Saara Österberg
Doctoral ResearcherFaculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies, Law School -
Anita Kittery
Early Stage Researcher
Supporting Staff
Other group members
-
Anna-Maija Tuunainen
-
Arja Halinen
-
Kennedy Adamson
-
Robert Boutilier
-
Susanna Myllylä
-
Kyle Bahr
-
Toni Eerola
Publications
64 items-
Applying social life cycle assessment in the early stages of a project development - an example from the mining sector
Muller, Stéphanie; Beylot, Antoine; Sydd, Olga; Doyle, Keiran; Bodin, Jérôme; Villeneuve, Jacques. International journal of life cycle assessment 26 12: 2436-2456. 2021 -
Finnish and Swedish law on mining in light of collaborative governance
Pölönen, Ismo; Allard, Christina; Raitio, Kaisa. Nordisk miljörättslig tidskrift 2020 2: 99-134. 2021 -
Mining in the Newspapers: Local and Regional Media Representations of Mineral Exploration and Mining in Finland, Germany, and Spain
Lyytimäki, Jari; Benighaus, Ludger; Gomez, Javier; Benighaus, Christina; Kauppi, Sari; Kotilainen, Juha M; Mononen, Tuija; del Rio, Virginia. Mining, metallurgy & exploration 38 5: 1831-1843. 2021 -
Mining with social license: Case study of Kylylahti mine in Northern Karelia, Finland
Mononen, Tuija; Sairinen, Rauno. The Extractive Industries and Society 8 2: 100744. 2021 -
A research framework for studying social impacts: Application to the field of mining
Sairinen, Rauno; Sidorenko, Olga; Tiainen, Heidi. Environmental impact assessment review 2021; 86: 106490. 2020 -
Kaivos kuilun partaalla - tapaustutkimus Oriveden kaivoksen evätystä ympäristöluvasta
Österberg, Saara. Ympäristöjuridiikka 40 3-4: 7-45. 2020 -
Mining conflicts in the European Union: environmental and political perspectives
Kivinen, Sonja; Kotilainen, Juha; Kumpula, Timo. Fennia 198 1-2: 163-179. 2020 -
Policy agenda towards socially responsible small-scale mining in Europe
Sidorenko, Olga; Sairinen, Rauno; Tiainen, Heidi; Moore, Kathryn; Roberts, Dominic. 2020 2020 -
Rethinking the concept of small-scale mining for technologically advanced raw materials production
Sidorenko, Olga; Sairinen, Rauno; Moore, Kathryn. Resources policy 68: 101712. 2020 -
Rural protests and the mining industry in Finland
Mononen, Tuija; Björn, Ismo / Social movements contesting natural resource development. 2020. 2020