Paula Kivimaa

Research Professor

PhD, Docent (sustainability management, Aalto University School of Business)

Finnish Environment Institute SYKE
Climate Change Programme

Email: firstname.lastname@ymparisto.fi
Tel. +358 (0)400 148849
Twitter @paulakivim
 

Tasks

• Research and project management focused on decarbonisation of socio-technical systems (sustainability transitions)
• Policy analysis (climate policy, energy policy, innovation policy, transport policy)
• Innovation studies (low-carbon innovations in energy and mobility)

Research interests

• Low/zero carbon energy and mobility transitions
• Building energy efficiency
• Policy analysis and evaluation linking to sustainability innovation and transitions
• Role of intermediary organisations in transitions
• Climate, energy, transport and innovation policy

Current projects

• IDEALE Interplay between National Defence and Low-Carbon Energy Policies: a Sustainability Transitions Perspective
• Intermediaries in the energy transition: The invisible work of creating markets for sustainable energy solutions (TRIPOD) (until August 2019)
• Eating and Energy Use Reconfigured (EE-TRANS) (until August 2019)

Recent projects

• Change in Business Ecosystems for Local Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency - Better Energy Services for Consumers (USE), 2015-2018 (Academy of Finland, New Energy Programme)
   

Publications

My publications in Google Scholar

Recent papers

• Kivimaa, Paula, Boon, Wouter, Hyysalo, Sampsa and Klerkx, Laurens (2019) Towards a typology of intermediaries in sustainability transitions: a systematic review and a research agenda. Research Policy 48(4): 1062-1075.
• Kivimaa, Paula, Hyysalo, Sampsa, Boon, Wouter, Klerkx, Laurens, Martiskainen, Mari and Schot, Johan (2019) Passing the baton: how intermediaries advance sustainability transitions in different phases. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions.
• Hyysalo, Sampsa, Lukkarinen, Jani, Kivimaa, Paula<, et al. (2019) Developing policy pathways: redesigning transition arenas for mid-range planning. Sustainability, 11 (3). 603 1-22.
• Köhler, Jonathan, Geels, Frank W,Kern, Florian, et al. (2019) An agenda for sustainability transitions research: state of the art and future directions. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions.
• Martiskainen, Mari and Kivimaa, Paula (2019)Role of knowledge and policies as drivers for low-energy housing: case studies from the United Kingdom. Journal of Cleaner Production, 215 (1). pp. 1402-141.
• Heiskanen, Eva, Kivimaa, Paula and Lovio, Raimo (2019) Promoting sustainable energy: does institutional entrepreneurship help? Energy Research & Social Science, 50. pp. 179-190. ISSN 2214-6296
• Brown, Donal, Sorrell, Steve and Kivimaa, Paula (2019)Worth the risk? An evaluation of alternative finance mechanisms for residential retrofit. Energy Policy, 128. pp. 418-430. ISSN 0301-4215