Jouni Paavola

Deputy Director

Jouni's research examines environmental governance institutions and their social justice dimensions, focusing on climate change and biodiversity.

Jouni is also:

• Professor of Environmental Social Science at the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Leeds;
• Co-Director of the Sustainability Research Institute at the University of Leeds;
• Member of the Scientific Committee of the European Environmental Agency;
• Member of the Board of European Society of Ecological Economics (ESEE);
• Member of editorial boards on Ecological Economics, Environmental Policy and Governance, Environmental Science & Policy, and Environmental Values.

Background

Before joining the Sustainability Research Institute at Leeds University, Jouni was Senior Research Associate in the Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment (CSERGE) at the University of East Anglia, and Research Fellow in the Oxford Centre for the Environment, Ethics and Society (OCEES) at Mansfield College.

Prior to this, he was a researcher at Tampere University of Technology in Finland.

Jouni has published his research in journals such as Science, Ecological Economics and Environment and Planning A, and has co-edited three volumes published by Blackwell, MIT Press and Routledge.

Jouni completed an interdisciplinary PhD. in Resource Development (Environmental and Development Studies) in 2000 at Michigan State University in the United States.

Research interests

• Analyses of environmental governance institutions, particularly for climate change, biodiversity and ecosystem services;
• Social justice in environmental matters.

Research articles

2012

Paavola, J., et al (other members of the the Scientific Committee of the European Environment Agency). June 2012. Correcting a fundamental error in greenhouse gas accounting related to bioenergy. Energy Policy, v.45, pp.18-23. External link to full article|

Teschner, N., McDonald, A., Foxon, T.J., Paavola, J. March 2012. Integrated transitions toward sustainability: the case of water and energy policies in Israel. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, v.79, pp.457-468. External link to full article|

Mustalahti, I., Bolin, A., Boyd, E., and Paavola, J. Can REDD+ reconcile local priorities and needs with global mitigation benefits? Lessons from Angai Forest, Tanzania. Ecology and Society, v.17. Forthcoming. Download PDF of full article| (PDF, 74.7KB)

Niedziałkowski, K., Paavola, J., and Jędrzejewska, B. Ecology and Society, v.17. Forthcoming. Participation and protected areas governance: the impact of changing influence of local authorities on the conservation of the Bia łowieża Primeval Forest, Poland. Download PDF of full article| (PDF, 11.9MB)

2011

Paavola, J., and Fraser, E. May 2011. Ecological economics and environmental history. Ecological Economics, v.70, pp.1266-1268. External link to full article|

Paavola, J. Climate change: the ultimate 'tragedy of the commons'? April 2011. Working paper, Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, London and Leeds, UK. Download PDF of paper| (PDF, 308KB)

2010

Paavola, J. October 2010. Sewage pollution and institutional and technological change in the United States, 1830-1915. Ecological Economics, v.69, pp.2517-2524. External link to full article| 

2009

Paavola, J. November 2009. A new deal on climate change in Copenhagen? Environmental Values, v.18, pp.393-396. External link to full article|

Rauschmayer, F., Paavola, J., and Wittmer, H. June 2009. European governance of natural resources: participation in a multi-level context. Environmental Policy and Governance, v.19 (3). External link to full article|

Paavola,J., Gouldson, A., and Kluvánková-Oravská, T. April 2009. The interplay of actors, scales, frameworks and regimes in the governance of biodiversity. Environmental Policy and Governance, v.19 (3). External link to full article|

2008

Seyfang, G., and Paavola, J. December 2008. Inequality and sustainable consumption: bridging the gaps. Local Environment, v.13, pp.669-684. External link to full article|

Paavola, J. November 2008. Livelihoods, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in Morogoro, Tanzania. Environmental Science and Policy, v.11, pp.642-654. External link to full article|

Paavola, J. November 2008. Towards polyvocal environmental debates. Environmental Values, v.17, pp.433-436. External link to full article|

Paavola, J. August 2008. Science and social justice in the governance of adaptation to climate change. Environmental Politics, v.17, pp.644-659. External link to full article|