Learning from our Failures and Successes: 30 Lessons about Environmental Collaboration and Conflict Resolution

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Students, researchers and practicing professionals from 18 different countries gathered at the University of Eastern Finland in Joensuu, August 2018, for the third NOVA PhD course on Environmental Collaboration and Conflict Resolution. The action-packed week, led by Irmeli Mustalahti and Antti Erkkilä (University of Eastern Finland), with the help of the invited key expert Mara […]

New tools for environmental conflict resolution

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In August 2018, a course on environmental collaboration and conflict resolution brought together 28 participants from 17 different countries at the University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu Campus. The course provided the participants with theory and practical skills in environmental collaboration and conflict resolution.  One of the international teachers of the course, Professor Mara Hernández from the Centro de […]

COREvents #2: Using collaborative knowledge practices in environmental planning and decision-making

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How is trust in expertise generated and lost in environmental policy? How to overcome challenges in democratising environmental expertise? Why is joint fact-finding useful in complex planning and decision-making processes and how to apply it in practice? The second COREvent explores the potential of inclusive knowledge practices to bridge the gap between science and environmental […]

Course on environmental conflict mediation gathers international students

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The course on environmental collaboration and conflict resolution brings together students from 19 different countries at the University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu Campus, from 20 to 24 August 2018. The course, entitled Environmental collaboration and conflict resolution: The Crossroads of Forestry, Ecosystem Services and Wildlife, is intended for PhD students in forestry and environmental sciences. The […]

YHYS Colloquium – Call for papers: renewable energy, experiments and interventions

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Are you researching energy-related issues e.g. regulation, support policies, energy democracy, citizen energy, or energy politics more widely? Or are you working with experiments and interventions in environmental social science? If yes, the 23th annual colloquium of the Finnish Society for Environmental Social Sciences has something special for you! We have the pleasure to invite you […]

Collaborative practices for environmental decision-making

Challenges pertaining to the environment and natural resources governance are becoming more and more complex. Finding solutions calls for networking between different actors, collaboration, increasingly efficient sharing of information, and methods for conflict resolution. “We want to take Finnish environmental decision-making to a new era and to introduce a new turn that is characterised by […]