Biodiverse Anthropocenes

ANT 1 analyzes the historical and ongoing biosocial processes that have led to environmental degradation, multispecies biodiversity loss, and planetary uncertainty along Arctic gradients.
The aim is to generate new insights into how complementary (e.g., a/biotic, cultural, historical) factors affect the spatial and temporal dynamics of environmental phenomena, and what their relationships are to anthropogenic change.

ANT 2 is an empirically driven theme that investigates how multiple actors (e.g., species, landscapes, plant-animal-human communities, governance bodies) react to and cope with local and global environmental transformations. Research analyzes the composition and function of shifting ecosystems and societal structures at different taxonomic, geographic, and temporal scales.
The aim is to examine and quantify interactions, active reciprocities, both mutualistic and antagonistic, between different groups and gradients.

ANT 3 develops novel, transdisciplinary tools for studying the components of socio-ecological systems. The inventive methods, which arise from pairing different disciplinary scholars to tackle new research questions together, produce innovative means of addressing complex and changing environmental and societal challenges.

ANT 4 is a practice-driven and ethically minded theme that focuses on societal impact by planning and developing ways of stimulating sustainable and ethical ecological practices. Through public enactment with research, it integrates knowledge, action, and management into involvement with educational institutions, municipalities, SMEs, and public learning spaces.
Concrete actions include: citizen science workshops; memberships in councils and policy platforms (e.g., IPBES); policy sessions and briefs at the national and EU levels; researcher-led school and museum programmes on, e.g., responsibilities, sustainable lifestyles, and ethics of care.

Professor Marko Mutanen (Director)
Ecology and Genetics
marko.mutanen@oulu.fi
+358 40 8246749

Assoc. Professor Roger Norum (Deputy Director)
Cultural Anthropology
roger.norum@oulu.fi
+358 50 3505630

MSc. Carolina De la Rosa
Ecology and Genetics
carolina.delarosa@oulu.fi
+358 50 5904639

Dr. Emma Vatka
Ecology and Genetics
emma.vatka@oulu.fi
+358 50 5670048
+358 29 4481416

Assoc. Prof. Heikki Helanterä (Ecology and Genetics)

Prof. Vesa-Pekka Herva (Archaeology)

Prof. Elina Lehtomäki (Education)

Dr. (Docent) Esa Ruuskanen (Environmental History, Environmental Humanities)

Assoc. Prof. Anna-Kaisa Salmi (Archaeology)

Prof. Jarkko Saarinen (Geography)

This is the list of the senior scholars at the University of Oulu, who are affiliated with the Biodiverse Anthropocenes programme:

Anna-Maria Pirttilä (Ecology and Genetics)

Anssi Paasi (Geography)

Anu Eskelinen (Ecology and Genetics)

Hannu Heikkinen (Anthropology)

Jan Hjort (Geography)

Jeffrey Welker (Ecology and Genetics)

Jouni Aspi (Ecology and Genetics)

Jouni Jaakkola (Public Health)

Karin Murris (Education)

Katri Jokikokko (Education)

Maija-Liisa Lanas (Education)

Markku Niskanen (Archaeology)

Michael Hall (Geography)

Mikko Sillanpää (Mathematics)

Pauliina Rautio (Education)

Päivi Lujala (Geography)

Risto Virtanen (Ecology and Genetics)

Ritva Kylli (History)

Sandra Reimann (Languages and Literature)

Simo Sarkki (Anthropology)

Tiina Kinnunen (History)

Timo Muotka (Ecology and Genetics)

To become a member you need to be affiliated to the University of Oulu.

There are two types of membership in Biodiverse Anthropocenes that are available to the University of Oulu community: Affiliated Scholars and Doctoral Scholars. Membership is open to researchers who hold a PhD and work with biodiversity-related issues at the University of Oulu. It is also open to doctoral researchers at the University of Oulu who are working on relevant topics.

Affiliated Scholars and Doctoral Scholars make up the core of the international research community that work together towards understanding the links between environment and society.

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