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The outbreak of COVID-19 raised numerous questions on the interactions between the occurrence of new infections, the environment, climate and health. The European Union requested the H2020 HERA project which aims at setting priorities in research on environment, climate and health, to identify relevant research needs regarding Covid-19. The emergence and spread of SARS-CoV-2 appears to be related to urbanization, habitat destruction, live animal trade, intensive livestock farming and global travel. The contribution of climate and air pollution requires additional studies. Importantly, the severity of COVID-19 depends on the interactions between the viral infection, ageing and chronic diseases such as metabolic, respiratory and cardiovascular diseases and obesity which are themselves influenced by environmental stressors. The mechanisms of these interactions deserve additional scrutiny. Both the pandemic and the social response to the disease have elicited an array of behavioural and societal changes that may remain long after the pandemic and that may have long term health effects including on mental health. Recovery plans are currently being discussed or implemented and the environmental and health impacts of those plans are not clearly foreseen. Clearly, COVID-19 will have a long-lasting impact on the environmental health field and will open new research perspectives and policy needs.
Robert Barouki; Manolis Kogevinas; Karine Audouze; Kristine Belesova; Ake Bergman; Linda Birnbaum; Sandra Boekhold; Sebastien Denys; Celine Desseille; Elina Drakvik; Howard Frumkin; Jeanne Garric; Delphine Destoumieux-Garzon; Andrew Haines; Anke Huss; Genon Jensen; Spyros Karakitsios; Jana Klanova; Iida-Maria Koskela; Francine Laden; Francelyne Marano; Eva Franziska Matthies-Wiesler; George Morris; Julia Nowacki; Riikka Paloniemi; Neil Pearce; Annette Peters; Aino Rekola; Denis Sarigiannis; Katerina Šebková; Remy Slama; Brigit Staatsen; Cathryn Tonne; Roel Vermeulen; Paolo Vineis. The COVID-19 pandemic and global environmental change: Emerging research needs. Environment International 2020, 146, 106272 -106272.
AMA StyleRobert Barouki, Manolis Kogevinas, Karine Audouze, Kristine Belesova, Ake Bergman, Linda Birnbaum, Sandra Boekhold, Sebastien Denys, Celine Desseille, Elina Drakvik, Howard Frumkin, Jeanne Garric, Delphine Destoumieux-Garzon, Andrew Haines, Anke Huss, Genon Jensen, Spyros Karakitsios, Jana Klanova, Iida-Maria Koskela, Francine Laden, Francelyne Marano, Eva Franziska Matthies-Wiesler, George Morris, Julia Nowacki, Riikka Paloniemi, Neil Pearce, Annette Peters, Aino Rekola, Denis Sarigiannis, Katerina Šebková, Remy Slama, Brigit Staatsen, Cathryn Tonne, Roel Vermeulen, Paolo Vineis. The COVID-19 pandemic and global environmental change: Emerging research needs. Environment International. 2020; 146 ():106272-106272.
Chicago/Turabian StyleRobert Barouki; Manolis Kogevinas; Karine Audouze; Kristine Belesova; Ake Bergman; Linda Birnbaum; Sandra Boekhold; Sebastien Denys; Celine Desseille; Elina Drakvik; Howard Frumkin; Jeanne Garric; Delphine Destoumieux-Garzon; Andrew Haines; Anke Huss; Genon Jensen; Spyros Karakitsios; Jana Klanova; Iida-Maria Koskela; Francine Laden; Francelyne Marano; Eva Franziska Matthies-Wiesler; George Morris; Julia Nowacki; Riikka Paloniemi; Neil Pearce; Annette Peters; Aino Rekola; Denis Sarigiannis; Katerina Šebková; Remy Slama; Brigit Staatsen; Cathryn Tonne; Roel Vermeulen; Paolo Vineis. 2020. "The COVID-19 pandemic and global environmental change: Emerging research needs." Environment International 146, no. : 106272-106272.
Kaupunkilaisten hyvinvoinnin kannalta luontoympäristön laatu ja saavutettavuus ovat tulevaisuuden avainkysymyksiä. Artikkelissa analysoimme pääkaupunkiseudun kaupunkisuunnittelijoiden sekä viheralueiden hoidosta vastaavien viranomaisten oikeudenmukaisuuskäsityksiä. Suunnittelijanäkemyksistä etsimme vastauksia siihen, miten suunnittelijat ratkovat työssään edustajuuden dilemmaa, joka aiheutuu tasapuolisuuden turvaamisen ja moninaisuuden tunnistamisen välisistä jännitteistä. Tutkimuksessamme havaitsimme, että suunnittelijat pitivät oikeudenmukaisuutta vahvana ammatillisena periaatteenaan. Erilaisten odotusten ristipaineissa suunnittelijoiden kyky käyttää luovasti toimivaltaansa oikeudenmukaisuuden turvaamiseksi oli kuitenkin jossain määrin rajoittunut. Esitämme, että ymmärrys oikeudenmukaisuuden kokemuksen rakentumisesta ja siitä, miten reilu prosessi itsessään auttaa osallista hyväksymään huonommankin lopputuloksen, voisi toimia suunnittelijalle kompassina odotusten ristipaineessa navigoinnissa. Suunnittelijan kykyä turvata oikeudenmukaisuutta voidaan tukea lainsäädännöllä ja ammattieettisillä periaatteilla.
Aino Rekola; Riikka Paloniemi. Navigointia kestävän kaupunkisuunnittelun ristiaallokossa. Janus Sosiaalipolitiikan ja sosiaalityön tutkimuksen aikakauslehti 2019, 27, 264 -282.
AMA StyleAino Rekola, Riikka Paloniemi. Navigointia kestävän kaupunkisuunnittelun ristiaallokossa. Janus Sosiaalipolitiikan ja sosiaalityön tutkimuksen aikakauslehti. 2019; 27 (3):264-282.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAino Rekola; Riikka Paloniemi. 2019. "Navigointia kestävän kaupunkisuunnittelun ristiaallokossa." Janus Sosiaalipolitiikan ja sosiaalityön tutkimuksen aikakauslehti 27, no. 3: 264-282.
Societies aiming for a sustainable future need more effective and legitimate planning and decision making practices, in which various actors together find pathways towards a sustainable transition. In this paper, we approach sustainability and environmental justice as epistemological (and ontological) challenges for land-use planning, and empirically analyse how action research could support planners’ social learning and planning towards fair and sustainable development. We analysed qualitatively the evolution of the researcher–planner dialogue while co-designing and developing better methods, means and practices to improve environmental justice in regional scale planning in Kymenlaakso Region, South-East Finland. We found that researcher-planner dialogue developed during cooperation. While in the beginning, social learning related to approaching environmental justice as a fair distribution of power evolved incrementally, later, when dialogue became more focused, communicative and reflective as an outcome of mutual frames and trust, learning occurred in a more transformative way. Such transformative learning concerned recognising youth as a silent group in the planning process and the means to involve their perceptions in planning. In order to support sustainability transformation in the future, we conclude that it is essential to create opportunities for such incremental and transformative social learning through innovative modes of interaction in various contexts.
Aino Rekola; Riikka Paloniemi. Researcher–Planner Dialogue on Environmental Justice and Its Knowledges—A Means to Encourage Social Learning Towards Sustainability. Sustainability 2018, 10, 2601 .
AMA StyleAino Rekola, Riikka Paloniemi. Researcher–Planner Dialogue on Environmental Justice and Its Knowledges—A Means to Encourage Social Learning Towards Sustainability. Sustainability. 2018; 10 (8):2601.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAino Rekola; Riikka Paloniemi. 2018. "Researcher–Planner Dialogue on Environmental Justice and Its Knowledges—A Means to Encourage Social Learning Towards Sustainability." Sustainability 10, no. 8: 2601.
Environmental justice sheds light on the distributive and procedural aspects of planning and decision-making. We examined the challenges arising from the perspective of environmental justice on multi-level and participatory environmental governance by exploring the governance of aquatic environments in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area. We found three main challenges and potential responses to them. First, even though most of Helsinki’s shoreline is free and/or accessible by road and accordingly used actively by people for recreational purposes, many parts of the shoreline are perceived as inaccessible, reflecting a need to combine factual and perceived accessibility of aquatic environments in detail during the planning processes and to discuss reasons for possible discrepancies between these two. Second, there was a remarkable seasonal variation in the use of aquatic environments, so more attention should be paid to social-demographic factors explaining the distribution of the use of urban nature. Third, it seems to be difficult to capture the variety of perceptions of people and to integrate them into planning and decision-making processes even on a local scale, and this challenge is likely even more pronounced on higher levels of planning and governance. Thus, better integration of regional and local-scale planning procedures should be encouraged. Building on these observations, we conclude that integration of procedural and distributive environmental justice into the practices of the governance of aquatic environments could remarkably decrease unwanted trade-offs and potential conflicts in their use and management.
Riikka Paloniemi; Jari Niemelä; Niko Soininen; Tiina Laatikainen; Kati Vierikko; Aino Rekola; Arto Viinikka; Vesa Yli-Pelkonen; Timo Assmuth; Leena Kopperoinen; Lasse Peltonen; Tuomas Kuokkanen; Marketta Kyttä. Environmental justice for the governance of aquatic environments. Local Environment 2017, 23, 366 -377.
AMA StyleRiikka Paloniemi, Jari Niemelä, Niko Soininen, Tiina Laatikainen, Kati Vierikko, Aino Rekola, Arto Viinikka, Vesa Yli-Pelkonen, Timo Assmuth, Leena Kopperoinen, Lasse Peltonen, Tuomas Kuokkanen, Marketta Kyttä. Environmental justice for the governance of aquatic environments. Local Environment. 2017; 23 (3):366-377.
Chicago/Turabian StyleRiikka Paloniemi; Jari Niemelä; Niko Soininen; Tiina Laatikainen; Kati Vierikko; Aino Rekola; Arto Viinikka; Vesa Yli-Pelkonen; Timo Assmuth; Leena Kopperoinen; Lasse Peltonen; Tuomas Kuokkanen; Marketta Kyttä. 2017. "Environmental justice for the governance of aquatic environments." Local Environment 23, no. 3: 366-377.