Leaders
This research group is founded on a passion to explore, how environmental law and governance can transform human activity to a more sustainable path, helping us reach ambitious environmental objectives concerning the ecological status of waters. The core substantive themes of the group are water and environmental law, sustainable use of renewable natural resources, biodiversity and climate change adaptation. Cross-cutting themes include legal regulatory strategies, law in adaptive, collaborative and transformative governance, legal regulation of cumulative impacts, law and mitigation hierarchy, and science in legislative drafting and legal decision-making.
The research group collaborates with other UEF research groups, other Finnish universities, research institutes, and with leading researchers from other universities abroad.
Cooperation
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CCEEL - The Center for Climate Change, Energy and Environmental Law 01.09.2013 -
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SusHydro - Regoverning the Existing Hydropower System Finished 01.09.2020 - 31.08.2024
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Leaders
Professors
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Niko Soininen
ProfessorLaw School, Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies -
Antti Belinskij
ProfessorLaw School, Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies
Post-doctoral Researchers
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Jonas Kyrönviita
Postdoctoral ResearcherLaw School, Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies
Doctoral Researchers
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Francesco Venuti
Doctoral ResearcherLaw School, Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies -
César Soares de Oliveira
Doctoral ResearcherLaw School, Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies -
Elina Heikkilä
Doctoral ResearcherLaw School, Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies -
Arto Hietaniemi
Project ResearcherLaw School, Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies -
Janni Saari-Kontkanen
Project ResearcherLaw School, Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies -
Saara Österberg
Doctoral ResearcherDepartment of Geographical and Historical Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies
Other group members
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Joonas Alaranta joonas.alaranta@uef.fi
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Riku Anttila rikuant@student.uef.fi