What Use are Numbers in Environmental Social Science?
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yhys lead group for year 2022, jarkko levänen continues as chair
Finnish Society of Environmental Social Scientists held annual meeting as part of the Colloquium on 25.11.2021. The meeting decided on action plan and budget for 2022 as well as selected new board. Jarkko Levänen will continue as the chair and Mikko Jalas will become the new wise chair. In addition, the board will have nine …
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NESS – Nordic Environmental Social Science Conference: Emergency and transformation
If global environmental changes, including climate change, have taken decades to build up to an emergency, last year saw the almost instantaneous spread of a fatal virus that in a matter of weeks pushed global society into a humanitarian crisis, and soon also into a deep economic crisis. The 15th Nordic Environmental Social Science Conference, …
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What Life Means? – A Crucial Question for Environmental Social Research
Yrjö Haila -gradupalkinnoksi valittu teos 2020:
Didier Fassin: Life. A Critical User’s Manual. Polity Press, 2018.
The Perversities of Economic Growth Exposed
Yrjö Haila -gradupalkinnoksi valittu teos 2018:
David Pilling: The Growth Delusion. The Wealth and Well-Being of Nations. Bloomsbury, 2018.
YHYS Fall Colloquium 2020: Measuring and valuing sustainability
The 25th annual colloquium of the Finnish Society for Environmental Social Sciences (YHYS) on Measuring and valuing sustainability will be organized by LUT University, Department of Sustainability Science.
NESS 2021 postponed to 2022
The next Nordic Environmental Social Science conference will be organized by the political science department at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Can Science Cope with Matters of Concern?
Yrjö Haila -gradupalkinnoksi valittu teos 2019: Isabelle Stengers: Another Science is Possible. A Manifesto for Slow Science. Polity Press 2018.
YHYS colloquium 2019 in Jyväskylä
The 24th YHYS colloquium will be held at the University of Jyväskylä, on 21-22 November 2019, with the title ”Wisdom in crisis”.
Cautious Hope at the 2017 NESS Conference in Tampere
The bi-annual Nordic Environmental Social Science Conference took this year place in Tampere, Finland with the theme HopefulNESS.