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Sabaheta Ramcilovik-Suominen

Sabaheta Ramcilovik-Suominen

Visiting Researcher

Assoc. Research Professor, Academy of Finland Research Fellow

Department of Geographical and Historical Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies

[email protected]

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Sabaheta Ramcilovic-Suominen (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3209-545X) is Associate Research Professor and Academy of Finland Research Fellow at the Natural Resources Institute Finland, Luke. She is a Docent in global environmental justice at the Department of Geographical and Historical Studies at the University of Eastern Finland. In her work she applies political ecology, decolonial and degrowth lenses to explore socioecological justice and sustainability transformations. She has studied global environmental policy and governance instruments, such as those promoting green transition, bioeconomy, carbon forestry and forest legality. She has explored their implications on the historically and currently marginalized, dispossessed and made vulnerable human and other-than-human communities and natures in different contexts and countries, including in the EU, Ghana and Laos. Her current research interests concern the interplay between inner personal and collective changes and the outer systemic or structural change, and what roles do ontologies, worldviews and mindsets play in such transformations. More about her work: https://justglobeproject.com/ and Google Scholar.

  • Ramcilovic-Suominen, S., Chomba, S., Larson, A. M., and Sinclair, F. (2024). “Decolonial environmental justice in landscape restoration”. In Restoring Forests and Trees for Sustainable Development: Policies, Practices, Impacts, and Ways Forward, edited by P. Katila, C. J. Pierce Colfer, W. de Jong, G. Galloway, P. Pacheco, and G. Winkel. 74–101. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780197683958.003.0004.

  • Kleinschmit, D., Blum, M., Brockhaus, M., Karambiri, M., Kröger, M., Ramcilovic-Suominen, S., Reinecke, S., Ongolo, S. (2024). “Forest (landscape) restoration governance: Institutions, interests, ideas, and their interlinked logics”. In Restoring Forests and Trees for Sustainable Development: Policies, Practices, Impacts, and Ways Forward, edited by P. Katila, C. J. Pierce Colfer, W. de Jong, G. Galloway, P. Pacheco, and G. Winkel. 47–73. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780197683958.003.0003.

  • Verhaeghe, E., and Ramcilovic-Suominen, S. (2024). Transformation or more of the same? The EU’s deforestation-free products regulation through a radical transformation lens. Environmental Science & Policy, 158, 103807. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103807.

  • Ramcilovic-Suominen, S. (2024). Democracy through technocracy? Reinventing civil society as a state-monitored and unpaid service provider in the EU FLEGT VPA in Laos. Global Environmental Change, 85, 102809. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2024.102809.

  • Kleinschmit, D., Blum, M., Brockhaus, M., Karambiri, M., Kröger, M., Ramcilovic-Suominen, S., and Reinecke, S. (2023). “Key Logics of International Forest Governance and SDG 15”. In The Environment in Global Sustainability Governance: Perceptions, Actors, Innovations, edited by L. Partzsch. 47–69. Bristol University Press. https://doi.org/10.51952/9781529228021.ch004

  • Hiedanpää, J., Ramcilovic-Suominen, S., and Salo, M. (2023). Neoliberal pathways to the bioeconomy: Forest land use institutions in Chile, Finland, and Laos. Forest Policy and Economics, 155, 103041. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2023.103041

  • Gebara, MF., Ramcilovic-Suominen, S., and Schmidlehner, MF. (2023). Indigenous Knowledge in the Amazon’s Bioeconomy: Unveiling Bioepistemicide through the case of Kambo Medicine. Forest Policy and Economics, 154, 103012. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2023.103012.

  • Eversberg, D., Koch, P., Lehmann, R. Saltelli, A. Ramcilovic-Suomine, S., and Kovacic, Z. (2023). The more things change, the more they stay the same: promises of bioeconomy and the economy of promises. Sustainability Science, 18: 557–568. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-023-01321-4.

  • Kumeh, E.M., Ramcilovic-Suominen, S. (2023). Is the EU shirking responsibility for its deforestation footprint in tropical countries? Power, material, and epistemic inequalities in the EU’s global environmental governance. Sustainability Science, 18: 599–616. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-023-01302-7.

  • Nchanji YK, Ramcilovic-Suominen S., Nchanji EB., Mala WA., and Kotilainen J. (2023). Tackling Conflicts, Supporting Livelihoods: Convivial Conservation in the Campo Ma’an National Park. Conservation and Society, 21(1): 61–72. https://doi.org/10.4103/cs.cs_30_22.

  • Hamilton, R.T.V., and -Suominen, S. (2023). From hegemony-reinforcing to hegemony-transcending transformations: horizons of possibility and strategies of escape. Sustainability Science 18: 737–748. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-022-01257-1.

  • Villanueva, FDP., Tegegne, YT., Winkel, G., Cerutti, PO., Ramcilovic-Suominen, S. McDermott, C., Zeitlin, J., et al. (2023). Effects of EU illegal logging policy on timber-supplying countries: A systematic review, Journal of Environmental Management, 327: 116874, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.116874

  • Ramcilovic-Suominen, S., Kröger, M., and Dressler, W. (2022). From pro-growth and planetary limits to degrowth and decoloniality: An emerging bioeconomy policy and research agenda. Forest Policy and Economics, 144: 102819. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2022.102819.

  • Ramcilovic-Suominen S. and Mulatalhti, I. (2022). “Village forestry under donor-driven forestry interventions in Laos”. In Routledge Handbook on Community Forestry, edited by J. Bulkan, J. Palmer, A. M. Larson, and M. Hobley. 434–438. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367488710-33.

  • Ramcilovic-Suominen, S. (2023). Envisioning just transformations in and beyond the EU bioeconomy: inspirations from decolonial environmental justice and degrowth. Sustainability Science 18: 707–722. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-022-01091-5.

  • Tegenge, Y.T., Ramcilovic-Suominen, S., Almaw, A., Haywood, A., Winkel, G., and Kotilainen, J. (2022). What drives forest rule compliance behaviour in the Congo Basin? A study of local communities in Cameroon. Land Use Policy, 115, 106012 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2022.106012.

  • Ramcilovic-Suominen, S., Carodenuto, S. and McDermott, C., and Hiedanpää, J. (2021). Environmental justice and REDD+ safeguards in Laos: Lessons from an authoritarian political regime. Ambio. 50(12): 2256–2271. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-021-01618-7.

  • Adams, M.A., Tegegne, Y.T., Ramcilovic-Suominen, S., Acheampong, E., and Attah, A. (2021). FLEGT Voluntary Partnership Agreement implementation in Ghana: insights from a SWOT analysis.
    International Forestry Review, 23(4): 405–417. https://doi.org/10.1505/146554821834777206.

  • Nchanji, YK., Ramcilovic-Suominen, S., and Kotilainen, J. (2021). Power imbalances, social inequalities and gender roles as barriers to true participation in national park management: The case of Korup National Park, Cameroon. Forest Policy and Economics 130, 102527. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2021.102527.

  • Ramcilovic-Suominen, S., and Kotilainen, J. (2020). Power relations in community resilience and politics of shifting cultivation in Laos. Forest Policy and Economics, 115: 102–159. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2020.102159

  • Giuntoli, J., Ramcilovic-Suominen, S., and Oliver, T. et al., (2023). Exploring new visions for a sustainable bioeconomy, Mubareka, S.(editor), Publications Office of the European Union. https://data. europa.eu/doi/10.2760/79421.

  • Ramcilovic-Suominen, S. (2023). Global Environmental Justice and why it matters in EU’s Bioeconomy. In Exploring new visions for a sustainable bioeconomy. Publications Office of the European Union. https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2760/79421

  • Ramcilovic-Suominen, S. (2023). Linking degrowth, justice and human-nature relations with a common thread of transformations. Exploring new visions for a sustainable bioeconomy, edited by S. Mubareka and J. Giuntoli. Publications Office of the European Union. 35–37. https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2760/79421.

  • Vezzoni, R., and Ramcilovic-Suominen, S. (2023). The Finnish Bioeconomy Beyond Growth. Finnish Natural Resources Insitute (Luke) report. http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-380-817-1.

  • Spratt, S. Kargbo, P., Marfo, E., Ngungoh, E., and Ramcilovic-Suominen, S. (2018). Forest Taxation and REDD+: An Analysis of Potential Impacts in Cameroon, Ghana and Sierra Leone. International Centre for Tax Development. ICTD Working Paper 76. First published by the Institute of Development Studies in March 2018 © Institute of Development Studies. ISBN: 978-1-78118-433-2. https://www.ictd.ac/publication/forest-taxation-and-redd-an-analysis-of-potential-impacts-in-cameroon-ghana-and-sierra-leone/.

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