JYRKI KANGAS

Professor

Professor of Forest Bioeconomy since 2015. Director of the UNITE Flagship belonging to the Flagship Programme of the Academy of Finland. Director of the Doctoral Programme FORES (Forests and Bioresources).

The Professorship's field of science especially decision making, decision support and planning processes of forest bioeconomy.

Contact info

Organization

Faculty of Science and Forestry, School of Forest Sciences

Email

jyrki.kangas@uef.fi

Phone

+358 50 344 9888

Keywords

decision analysis decision support forest bioeconomy forest planning multicriteria methods multifunctional forestry

Societal Activities

Member of the Board of Directors of Business Joensuu Oy and A. Ahlström Kiinteistöt Oy, Docent at the University of Helsinki, vice-member of the National Forest Council, Chairman of the national association for pointing bird dogs

Research groups and research projects

Forest-Human-Machine Interplay - Building Resilience, Redefining Value Networks and Enabling Meaningful Experiences = UNITE Flagship, belonging to the Flagship Programme of the Academy of Finland, coordinated at the School of Forest Sciences of UEF and directed by Jyrki Kangas, other consortium members Luke, FGI and TAU.