Ari Lehtinen
Professor
My teaching and research activities focus on ‘politics of nature’ issues, both in terms of planetary developement and in connection to local/regional urban planning. As a geographer I have promoted socioenvironmental thinking and ap...
Department of Geographical and Historical Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies
ari.lehtinen@uef.fi | +358 50 372 8373
My ‘politics of nature’ research is much focused on Arctic and Boreal development issues, examined both as local/regional and transnational/planetary questions. A particular target has been Joensuu, a provincial city in Eastern Finland, in which context signs and options of sustainable city planning are identified, examined and promoted. In research practices I have applied and upgraded ‘environmental action research’ methods. As a geographer, I encourage research activities that deal with contemporary socioenvironmental concerns and which also include societal participation.
Publications
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Vaikuttavaa maantiedettä
Lehtinen, Ari Aukusti. 2024. Terra: maantieteellinen aikakauskirja. 135: 237-238 -
Is a sustainability transition possible within the decision-support services provided to Finnish forest owners?
Takala, Tuomo; Tanskanen, Minna; Brockhaus, Maria; Kanniainen, Teija; Tikkanen, Jukka; Lehtinen, Ari; Hujala, Teppo; Toppinen, Anne. 2023. Forest policy and economics. 150: -
Metsät metsinä, kiistakapulana ja talouden materiaalisena perustana
Sirviö, Heikki; Meriläinen, Eija; Lehtinen, Ari; Kellokumpu, Ville; Luukkonen, Juho. 2023. Alue ja ympäristö. 2022; 51: 1-3 -
Discursive barriers to voluntary biodiversity conservation: The case of Finnish forest owners
Takala, Tuomo; Brockhaus, Maria; Hujala, Teppo; Tanskanen, Minna; Lehtinen, Ari; Tikkanen, Jukka; Toppinen, Anne. 2022. Forest policy and economics. 136: -
Embryos of the Fennoscandian Greenbelt
Lehtinen, Ari. 2022. Versus. : . -
Luonnon paikat ympäristösuunnittelussa
Lehtinen, Ari. 2022. Alue ja ympäristö. 51: 168-170 -
Luonnonvarasuunnittelun noidankehä
Lehtinen, Ari. 2022. Alue ja ympäristö. 51: 165-167 -
Politicisation of nature in Nordic geography
Lehtinen, Ari. Teoksessa: Jakobsen, Peter; Jönsson, Erik; Larsen, Henrik Gutson(toim.) , 2022. Socio-Spatial Theory in Nordic Geography : Intellectual Histories and Critical Interventions. s. 87-104. Springer -
Re-articulating forest politics through “rights to forest” and “rights of forest”
Meriläinen, Eija; Lehtinen, Ari A. 2022. Geoforum. 133: 89-100 -
Alue ja Ympäristö: kriisitutkimus muutosvoimana [Toward crisis studies pro systemic transition]
Lehtinen, Ari. 2021. Nordia Tiedonantoja