Human-Environment Complexity Lab

Please note that some of the research projects or publications featured on this site were undertaken by Johanna Yletyinen prior to the establishment of this research group. They are included here to provide context and continuity for ongoing work, and to reflect the foundations upon which this group’s research is built.

Resilience of human values associated with ecosystems

In this study, we developed a novel approach for estimating the potential direct and indirect impacts of environmental change or restrictive environmental policies on local human communities. The approach combines network science (from the perspective of disturbance likelihood) with resilience thinking, and relies on the concepts of relational environmental values, cultural keystone species and pluralistic perspective on environmental governance.

Some really nice compliments from an anonymous peer-reviewer about this study: “I applaud the way in which the authors manage to inter-weave concepts, methods and theoretical developments from different bodies of scholars literature (e.g. network science, social-ecological systems, indigenous axiological studies). I am confident that this article will break much new ground and guide future work on relational values“.

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Yletyinen J., Tylianakis J.M., Stone C., Lyver P.O’B. 2022. Potential for cascading impacts of environmental change and policy on indigenous culture. Ambio. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-021-01670-3