Duties
Research on environmental policy and experimental environmental governance.
Education and academic titles
Master of Social Sciences (MSSc), University of Helsinki
Research and expertise
I am a social scientist focusing on environmental governance, with the aim of generating knowledge to better understand multidimensional socio-environmental challenges and the prerequisites for a just energy transition.
Projects
- Experimental environmental governance: coproduction and orchestration of transformative change (EE-GOCO)
- Clean Energy System Transition (REPower-CEST)
- Politics of incomplete infrastructures: Wastewater treatment and sludge processing in a circular economy (FRACTURES)
- Advancing Rare Earth Element Circularity and Valorization from Various Secondary Sources (REEVIVE)
Publications
Saarenaho, I., Kivimaa, P., Kaikkonen, H., Kivinen, M., & Turunen, T. (2026). Evaluating perceptions of justice in critical raw materials provision in Finland: Perspective on dimensions and governance. The Extractive Industries and Society, 27.