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Developing the economic, environmental, and social sustainability of urban environments is challenging due to the complex and interconnected nature of the context and objectives. In order to be successful in this challenging environment, professionals working in the urban development arena should have a holistic understanding of the different pillars of sustainable development, as well as various competencies and skills. This paper looks at sustainable urban development (SUD) from the perspective of the skills and competencies required and identifies effective pedagogic practices that could help educate future professionals. In particular, we explore interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary learning, reflective thinking, and experiential learning, which are needed for understanding various aspects of a complex phenomenon, collaborating with professionals from different fields and coming up with novel and constructive ways of solving complex problems. We first examine these through reviewing and analyzing relevant literature on education for sustainable development, with a focus on SUD. Then, we explore the application of these approaches in practice by describing and analyzing a newly introduced degree program at Tampere University, Finland.
Jonathon Taylor; Salla Jokela; Markus Laine; Juho Rajaniemi; Pekka Jokinen; Liisa Häikiö; Antti Lönnqvist. Learning and Teaching Interdisciplinary Skills in Sustainable Urban Development—The Case of Tampere University, Finland. Sustainability 2021, 13, 1180 .
AMA StyleJonathon Taylor, Salla Jokela, Markus Laine, Juho Rajaniemi, Pekka Jokinen, Liisa Häikiö, Antti Lönnqvist. Learning and Teaching Interdisciplinary Skills in Sustainable Urban Development—The Case of Tampere University, Finland. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (3):1180.
Chicago/Turabian StyleJonathon Taylor; Salla Jokela; Markus Laine; Juho Rajaniemi; Pekka Jokinen; Liisa Häikiö; Antti Lönnqvist. 2021. "Learning and Teaching Interdisciplinary Skills in Sustainable Urban Development—The Case of Tampere University, Finland." Sustainability 13, no. 3: 1180.
High meat consumption appears regularly in sustainability discourses but finding practical tools for reduction has proven to be challenging. The rise of social media has opened up new pathways to structure political spaces where grassroots initiatives for experiments can take place. Our paper examines how consumer-citizens started experimenting with vegetarian foods in the context of an innovative Finnish meat reduction social media campaign called Meatless October during its kick-off year in 2013. The focus is on participants’ perceptions of the campaign and reflections of the experiment process. We analyzed participants’ blog posts by using a qualitative content analysis. Our results show that the participants were often strongly motivated by the campaign’s sustainability frame. They also saw the campaign both as a communal challenge and an opportunity for political action, sharing know-how and experiences with the other participants. In everyday life, participants’ main focus and worry were in being able to prepare tasty and healthy vegetarian foods, and they were positively surprised by their ability to learn these skills. Participants typically attributed both success and failure in experimenting to their individual capabilities. Overall, our study suggests that the campaign’s public context pushed private practices towards change by facilitating the experimenting process.
Pasi Pohjolainen; Pekka Jokinen. Meat Reduction Practices in the Context of a Social Media Grassroots Experiment Campaign. Sustainability 2020, 12, 3822 .
AMA StylePasi Pohjolainen, Pekka Jokinen. Meat Reduction Practices in the Context of a Social Media Grassroots Experiment Campaign. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (9):3822.
Chicago/Turabian StylePasi Pohjolainen; Pekka Jokinen. 2020. "Meat Reduction Practices in the Context of a Social Media Grassroots Experiment Campaign." Sustainability 12, no. 9: 3822.
Arguments in the formulation, implementation and evaluation of biodiversity policy frame conservation in a range of ways and express interests that can be conflicting. Policy processes are cyclic and iterative by nature and as policies are constantly reformulated, argumentation has an important role at each policy stage. In this paper, we utilise the policy cycle model to shed light on biodiversity-related policy processes and the ways in which argumentation generates effects at different stages of these processes. The paper first draws on literature and the theory-driven assumptions are then illustrated with insights from four European case studies on different policy processes in which biodiversity conservation plays a role. The analysis shows that argumentation tends to evolve over the course of the policy cycle, and framing has a key role across the different policy stages. It is concluded that the ways in which arguments persist, accumulate, diffuse, and replace old arguments, should be the target of increased attention in policy analysis.
Pekka Jokinen; Malgorzata Blicharska; Eeva Primmer; Ann Van Herzele; Leena Kopperoinen; Outi Ratamäki. How does biodiversity conservation argumentation generate effects in policy cycles? Biodiversity and Conservation 2016, 27, 1725 -1740.
AMA StylePekka Jokinen, Malgorzata Blicharska, Eeva Primmer, Ann Van Herzele, Leena Kopperoinen, Outi Ratamäki. How does biodiversity conservation argumentation generate effects in policy cycles? Biodiversity and Conservation. 2016; 27 (7):1725-1740.
Chicago/Turabian StylePekka Jokinen; Malgorzata Blicharska; Eeva Primmer; Ann Van Herzele; Leena Kopperoinen; Outi Ratamäki. 2016. "How does biodiversity conservation argumentation generate effects in policy cycles?" Biodiversity and Conservation 27, no. 7: 1725-1740.
Global environmental challenges require changes in both the production and the consumption of goods. In this paper we analyse how consumers perceive the high environmental burden of meat. We analysed consumer environmental consciousness, including problem awareness and a support to action dimensions, latter including perceived self-efficacy as well as solutions to problems. The solutions were positioned on a continuum from increasing the efficiency of production to discussing sufficiency levels in consumption practices (techno-optimism, local meat, organic meat and meat reduction, respectively). We used a statistically representative survey sample (n = 1 890) from the population of Finland and cluster analysis to explore differences among consumers. The analysis revealed that most Finns seem to be rather unsure of the study topic. At the same time they tend to have a comparably high level of self-efficacy (55 per cent of respondents) and endorsement of particularly local meat solution type (55%), followed by organic meat (35%), meat reduction (25%) and techno-optimism (15%), though the neutral stand was the most common one across the data. We also identified six consumer groups that reveal not only a high number of Highly unsure consumers (40%), but also some Rather conscious (20%) and a relatively small number of Highly conscious (8%). In addition, there were also easily observable groups of Careless conscious (14%), Rather unsure (9%) and Resistant (8%). The results highlight the need for multitudinous of political actions to guide meat consumption, as there are groups that may benefit from practical tools for making dietary changes as well as groups in need for more comprehensive selection of measures, including environmental information.
Pasi Pohjolainen; Petri Tapio; Markus Vinnari; Pekka Jokinen; Pekka Räsänen. Consumer consciousness on meat and the environment — Exploring differences. Appetite 2016, 101, 37 -45.
AMA StylePasi Pohjolainen, Petri Tapio, Markus Vinnari, Pekka Jokinen, Pekka Räsänen. Consumer consciousness on meat and the environment — Exploring differences. Appetite. 2016; 101 ():37-45.
Chicago/Turabian StylePasi Pohjolainen; Petri Tapio; Markus Vinnari; Pekka Jokinen; Pekka Räsänen. 2016. "Consumer consciousness on meat and the environment — Exploring differences." Appetite 101, no. : 37-45.