Minna Kaljonen

Research professor

Docent (Adjunct professor), Environmental policy, University of Tampere
Ph.D., Admin. Science, Environmental policy, University of Tampere

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Contact

Email. firstname.lastname@syke.fi
Tel. +358 295 251 252 (mobile)   

Finnish Environment Institute
Environmental Policy Centre
Latokartanonkaari 11
FI-00790 Helsinki

Research interests and duties

I am responsible of developing and leading inter- and transdisciplinary research on just sustainability transitions. My research focuses on the practice of environmental governance in sustainability transitions. I have lately concentrated on sustainability transitions in food systems. I am interested in developing the use of experimental action research in the study of sustainability transitions. 

Selected publications

• Morris, C., M. Kaljonen, E. Hadley-Kershaw. in press. Governing plant-centred eating at the urban scale in the UK: The Sustainable Food Cities network and the making of a dietary biopolitical project. The Geographical Journal.
• Morris, C. Kaljonen, M et al. 2021. Priorities for social science and humanities research on the challenges of moving beyond animal-based food systems. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 8:38.
• Lonkila, A, Kaljonen, M. 2021. Promises of meat and milk alternatives -- integrative literature review on emergent research themes. Agriculture and Human Values (2021). 
• Huttunen, S., Kaljonen, M., Lonkila, A., Rantala, S., Rekola, A., Paloniemi, A. 2021. Pluralising agency to understand behaviour change in sustainability transitions. Energy Research and Social Science 76, 102067
• Kivimaa, P. Lonkila A., Laakso S., Kaljonen, M. 2021. Moving beyond disruptive innovations: a review of disruption in sustainability transitions. Environmental Innovation and Sustainability Transitions 38, 110-126.
• Laakso, S., Aro, R., Heiskanen, E., Kaljonen M. 2021. Reconfigurational approach to sustainability transitions: reviewing interlinkages between multi-level perspective and practice theories. Sustainability: Science, policy and practice 17, 15-31.
• Lehtonen, H., Aakkula, J., Fronzek, T., Helin, J., Hilden, M., Huttunen, S., Kaljonen, M., Niemi, J., Palosuo, T., Pirttioja, N., Rikkonen, P., Varho, V., Carter, T. 2021. Shared socioeconomic pathways for climate change research in Finland: co-developing extended SSP narratives for agriculture. Regional Environmental Change 21, 7.
• Huan-Niemi, E., M. Kaljonen, M. Knuuttila, J. Niemi, M. Saarinen 2020. The impacts of dietary change in Finland: food system approach. Agriculture and Food Science 29, 372-382.
• Peltola, T., M. Kaljonen, M. Kettunen, 2020. Public, embodied experiments in dietary transition: demonstrating alternative proteins at Finnish schools. Sustainability: Science, Policy and Practice 16, 184-196.
• Kaljonen, M., M. Salo, J. Lyytimäki, E. Furman 2020. From isolated labels and nudges to sustained tinkering: assessing long-term changes in sustainable eating at a lunch restaurant. British Food Journal 122, 3313-3329.
• Kaljonen, M., T. Peltola, M. Salo, E. Furman 2019. Attentive, speculative experimental research for sustainability transitions: An exploration in sustainable eating. Journal of Cleaner Production 206C, 365-373.
• Lonkila, A., M. Kaljonen 2018. Animal bodies multiple: Practising genomic knowledge on dairy farms. Geoforum 96, 198-206.
• Birge, T., Toivonen, M., Kaljonen, M., Herzon, I. 2017. Probing the grounds: Developing a payment-by-results agri-environment scheme in Finland.  Land Use Policy 61, 302-315.
• Valve, H., M. Kaljonen, J. Kauppila, P. Kauppila, 2017. Power and the material arrangements of a river basin management plan: The case of the Archipelago Sea. European Planning Studies 25, 1615-1632.
• Valve, H., M. Åkerman, M. Kaljonen 2013 ’You only start filling in the boxes’: natural resource management and the politics of plan-ability. Environment and Planning A 45, 2084-2099.
• Kaljonen, M. 2011. Caught between standardization and complexity. Study on the institutional ambiguities of agri-environmental policy implementation in Finland. Acta Universitatis Tamperensis 1594. University of Tampere. Tampere University Press – Juvenes Print, Tampere.
   
• MInna Kaljonen's articles in SYKEs database
• Minna Kaljonen's publications in SYKEs database
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