Paula Kivimaa

Research Professor, Climate and Society

PhD, Docent
Academy of Finland Research Fellow

Finnish Environment Institute SYKE
Climate Change Programme

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

Since August 2019, I have acted as a Research Professor in SYKE’s Climate Change Programme. The theme of the professorship is Climate and Society, and my aims are to make new research openings, develop novel approaches to research interaction between climate policy and societal developments, bring security and social justice perspectives into researching climate and energy transitions, and support the development of SYKE’s research expertise and international networking in this area. I am a sustainability transitions scholar, and have led many projects related to transport, building energy efficiency and energy transitions. A significant proportion of my working hours is currently spent on an Academy of Finland Fellowship Project IDEALE that explores the connections between energy and national security policies. In addition, I am a member of the Finnish Climate Panel, and an Associate Editor of Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions.

Tasks

• Research and project management focused on decarbonisation of socio-technical systems (sustainability transitions)
• Policy analysis (climate policy, energy policy, innovation policy, transport policy, security 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
• Security and geopolitics in sustainability transitions

Current projects

• IDEALE Interplay between National Defence and Low-Carbon Energy Policies: a Sustainability Transitions Perspective, 2019-2024 (Academy of Finland, fellowship project)
• CAScading Climate risks: towards ADaptive and resilient European Societies (CASCADES), 2019-2023 (EU H2020)

Recent projects

• Intermediaries in the energy transition: The invisible work of creating markets for sustainable energy solutions (TRIPOD), 2015-2019 (Academy of Finland)
• Eating and Energy Use Reconfigured (EE-TRANS), 2018-2019 (Academy of Finland)
• 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, P., Laakso, S., Lonkila, A., Kaljonen, M. (2021). Moving beyond disruptive innovation: A review of disruption in sustainability transitions. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions 38: 110-126.
• Kanda, W; Kivimaa, P (2020). What opportunities could the COVID-19 outbreak offer for sustainability transitions research on electricity and mobility? Energy Research & Social Science 68, 101666
• Kivimaa, P; Bergek, A; Matschoss, K; van Lente, H. (2020). Intermediaries in accelerating transitions: Introduction to the special issue. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions.
• Kivimaa, P; Primmer, E; Lukkarinen, J. (2020). Intermediating policy for transitions towards net-zero energy buildings. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions.
• Kanda, W.; Kuisma, M; Kivimaa, P; Hjelm, O. (2020). Conceptualising the systemic activities of intermediaries in sustainability transitions. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions.
• Sovacool, B; Turnheim, B; Martiskainen, M; Brown, D; Kivimaa, P. (2020). Guides or gatekeepers? Incumbent-oriented transition intermediaries in a low-carbon era. Energy Research & Social Science 66, 101490.
• Johnstone, P; Rogge, K; Kivimaa, P; Fratini, C; Primmer, E; Stirling, E (2020). Waves of disruption in clean energy transitions: Sociotechnical dimensions of system disruption in Germany and the United Kingdom. Energy Research & Social Science 59, 101287.
• 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