Jouni Paavola
Jouni is a Co-Director of CCCEP, along with Sam Fankhauser.
Jouni is also Professor of Environmental Social Science in the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Leeds and has been in Leeds since 2006. Jouni teaches environmental economics and conducts research on environmental governance institutions and their social justice dimensions.
Jouni is also:
- Director of Postgraduate Research Studies in the Faculty of Environment at the University of Leeds;
- Member of the Scientific Committee of the European Environment Agency (EEA);
- Member of editorial boards of Ecological Economics and Environmental Policy and Governance.
Background
Before joining the University of Leeds, Jouni was Senior Research Associate in the Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment (CSERGE) at the University of East Anglia.
Jouni completed an interdisciplinary PhD. in Resource Development (Environmental and Development Studies) at Michigan State University in the United States in 2000.
Research interests
- Environmental governance institutions, particularly for governance of climate change, biodiversity and ecosystem services;
- Vulnerability, livelihoods and climate change adaptation;
- Social justice in environmental matters.
Research articles
- Multi-level governance and power in climate change policy networks
29 Jan 2019. Monica Di Gregorio, Leandra Fatorelli, Jouni Paavola, Bruno Locatelli, Emilia Pramova, Dodik Ridho Nurrochmat, Maria Brockhaus, Sonya Dyah Kusumadewi, Intan Maya Sari, Peter May - Health impacts of climate change and health and social inequalities in the UK
23 Dec 2017. Jouni Paavola - Can national policy blockages accelerate the development of polycentric governance? Evidence from climate change policy in the United Kingdom
23 Jun 2017. Andy Gouldson, Jouni Paavola, James Van Alstine - Autonomous adaptation to riverine flooding in Satkhira District, Bangladesh: implications for adaptation planning
23 May 2017. Adrian Fenton, Jouni Paavola, Anne Tallontire - The livelihood impacts of the Equitable Payments for Watershed Services (EPWS) Program in Morogoro, Tanzania
23 Apr 2017. Emmanuel Kwayu, Jouni Paavola, Susannah Mary Sallu - The Role of Microfinance in Household Livelihood Adaptation in Satkhira District, Southwest Bangladesh
23 Apr 2017. Adrian Fenton, Jouni Paavola, Anne Tallontire - Adaptation planning and the use of climate change projections in local government in England and Germany
23 Feb 2017. Suraje Dessai, Piers Forster, Susanne Lorenz, Jouni Paavola - Climate policy integration in the land use sector: Mitigation, adaptation and sustainable development linkages
23 Jan 2017. Dodik Ridho Nurrochmat, Monica Di Gregorio, Jouni Paavola, Intan Maya Sari, Leandra Fatorelli, Emilia Pramova, Bruno Locatelli, Maria Brockhaus, Sonya Dyah Kusumadewi - Flood risk perceptions and the UK media: Moving beyond “once in a lifetime” to “Be Prepared” reporting
23 Jan 2017. Rosalind Bark, Jouni Paavola, Viktoria Cologna - Climate policy integration in the land use sector: Mitigation, adaptation and sustainable development linkages
1 Jan 2017. Monica Di Gregorio, Dodik Ridho Nurrochmat, Jouni Paavola, Intan Maya Sari, Leandra Fatorelli, Emilia Pramova, Bruno Locatelli, Maria Brockhaus, Sonya Dyah Kusumadewi - The Role of Microfinance in Household Livelihood Adaptation in Satkhira District, Southwest Bangladesh
4 Dec 2016. Adrian Fenton, Jouni Paavola, Anne Tallontire - Adaptation Planning and the use of climate change projections in local government in England and Germany
10 Aug 2016. Susanne Lorenz, Jouni Paavola, Piers Forster, Suraje Dessai - A systematic review of the impacts of climate variability and change on electricity systems in Europe
1 Aug 2016. Jouni Paavola, Suraje Dessai, Muriel Bonjean Stanton - Virtual Water Flows in the EU27: A Consumption-based Approach
19 May 2016. Jouni Paavola, Dabo Guan, Rosa Duarte, Ana Serrano - Transformational responses to climate change: Beyond a systems perspective of social change in mitigation and adaptation
24 Feb 2016. Jouni Paavola, Andy Gouldson, James Van Alstine - Testing the effectiveness of climate projections visualisations with adaptation practitioners
10 Nov 2015. Susanne Lorenz, Suraje Dessai, Piers Forster, Jouni Paavola - Tailoring the visual communication of climate projections for local adaptation practitioners in Germany and the UK
12 Oct 2015. Susanne Lorenz, Suraje Dessai, Jouni Paavola - Microfinance and climate change adaptation: an overview of the current literature
28 Sep 2015. Adrian Fenton, Jouni Paavola, Anne Tallontire - Multi-level environmental governance: exploring the economic explanations
17 Sep 2015. Jouni Paavola - Environment and sustainability
29 May 2015. Jouni Paavola - Can CDM finance energy access in Least Developed Countries? Evidence from Tanzania
16 Apr 2015. Benjamin T. Wood, Susannah Mary Sallu, Jouni Paavola - Debt relief and financing climate change action
30 Jul 2014. Adrian Fenton, Helena Wright, Stavros Afionis, Jouni Paavola, Saleemul Huq - Migrating to tackle climate variability and change? Insights from coastal fishing communities in Bangladesh
2 Jun 2014. Susannah Mary Sallu, Monirul Islam, Klaus Hubacek, Jouni Paavola - Addressing needs in the search for sustainable development: A proposal for needs-based scenario building
1 Feb 2014. Catherine Jolibert, Jouni Paavola, Felix Rauschmayer - Farmer participation in the equitable payments for watershed services in Morogoro, Tanzania.
3 Jan 2014. Emmanuel Kwayu, Susannah Mary Sallu, Jouni Paavola - Limits and barriers to adaptation to climate variability and change in Bangladeshi coastal fishing communities.
1 Jan 2014. Monirul Islam, Susannah Mary Sallu, Klaus Hubacek, Jouni Paavola - Regime complexes and national policy coherence: Experiences in the biodiversity cluster
1 Jan 2014. Velázquez Gomar, Lindsay Stringer, Jouni Paavola - Experiences of host communities with carbon market projects: towards multi-level climate justice
2 Dec 2013. Stavros Afionis, Jouni Paavola, Andy Dougill, Lindsay Stringer - Governance of biodiversity in Poland before and after the accession to the EU: the tale of two roads
21 Sep 2013. Jouni Paavola, Bogumila Jedrzejewska - Identifying drivers of household coping strategies to multiple climatic hazards in Western Uganda: implications for adapting to future climate change
1 Sep 2013. Rachel Berman, Claire Quinn, Jouni Paavola - The communication of physical science uncertainty in European National Adaptation Strategies
27 Jul 2013. Suzanne Lorenz, Suraje Dessai, Jouni Paavola, Piers Forster - Vulnerability of fishery-based livelihoods to the impacts of climate variability and change: insights from coastal Bangladesh.
6 Jun 2013. Monirul Islam, Susannah Mary Sallu, Klaus Hubacek, Jouni Paavola - Discourses of abundance: Transitions in Israel’s energy regime
18 Apr 2013. Naama Teschner, Jouni Paavola - The role of technology in policy dynamics: the case of desalination in Israel
18 Apr 2013. Jouni Paavola, N. Teschner, Y. Garb - Participation in environmental conservation and protected area management in Romania: A review of three case studies
26 Feb 2013. Lindsay Stringer, Jouni Paavola - The communication of scientific uncertainty in European national adaptation strategies
25 Jan 2013. Susanne Lorenz, Jouni Paavola, Piers Forster - Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+): transaction costs of six Peruvian projects.
1 Jan 2013. Jouni Paavola, John R. Healey, Julia P.G. Jones, Timothy R. Baker, Jorge Torres - EU climate leadership under test
18 Nov 2012. Stavros Afionis, Adrian Fenton, Jouni Paavola - The role of institutions in the transformation of coping capacity to sustainable adaptive capacity.
21 Mar 2012. Rachel Berman, Claire Quinn, Jouni Paavola - Correcting a fundamental error in greenhouse gas accounting related to bioenergy.
16 Mar 2012. Jouni Paavola - Integrated transitions toward sustainability: the case of water and energy policies in Israel.
3 Mar 2012. Naama Teschner, Adrian McDonald, Tim Foxon, Jouni Paavola - Can REDD+ reconcile local priorities and global mitigation benefits? Lessons from Angai Forest, Tanzania
1 Jan 2012. Irmeli Mustalahti, Anna Bolin, Emily Boyd, Jouni Paavola - Participation and protected areas governance: the impact of changing influence of local authorities on the conservation of the Białowieża Primeval Forest, Poland.
1 Jan 2012. Kryzttof Niedziałkowski, Jouni Paavola, Bogumila Jedrzejewska - Rationales for public participation in environmental policy and governance: practitioners’ perspectives.
1 Nov 2011. Anna Wesselink, Jouni Paavola, Oliver Fritsch, Ortwin Renn - Measuring, modeling and mapping ecosystem services in the eastern arc mountains of Tanzania.
1 Oct 2011. Brendan Fisher, R. Kerry Turner, Neil D. Burgess, Ruth D. Swetnam, Jonathan Green, Rhys E. Green, George Kajembe, Kassim Kulindwa, Simon L. Lewis, Rob Marchant, Andrew R. Marshall, Seif Madoffe, P.K.T. Munishi, Sian Morse-Jones, Shadrack Mwakalila, Jouni Paavola, Robin Naidoo, Taylor Ricketts, Mathieu Rouget, Simon Willcock, Sue White, Andrew Balmford - Ecological economics and environmental history
15 May 2011. Jouni Paavola, Evan Fraser - Ecological economics and environmental history
8 Apr 2011. Jouni Paavola, Evan Fraser - Integrating ecosystem services and economic theory: what can we do, what should we do, and what has been done?
25 Feb 2011. Jouni Paavola - Sewage pollution and institutional and technological change in the United States, 1830-1915.
1 Oct 2010. Jouni Paavola - A new deal on climate change in Copenhagen?
4 Nov 2009. Jouni Paavola - European governance of natural resources: participation in a multi-level context.
26 May 2009. Felix Rauschmayer, Jouni Paavola, Heidi Wittmer - The interplay of actors, scales, frameworks and regimes in the governance of biodiversity.
30 Apr 2009. Jouni Paavola, Andy Gouldson, T. Kluvánková-Oravska - Ecosystem services and economic theory: Integration for policy-relevant research
1 Dec 2008. Jouni Paavola - Towards polyvocal environmental debates.
4 Nov 2008. Jouni Paavola - Livelihoods, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in Morogoro, Tanzania.
1 Nov 2008. Jouni Paavola - Science and social justice in the governance of adaptation to climate change.
8 Aug 2008. Jouni Paavola - Governing atmospheric sinks: the architecture of entitlements in the global commons.
2 Jul 2008. Jouni Paavola - Inequality and sustainable consumption: bridging the gaps.
10 Jan 2008. Gill Seyfanga, Jouni Paavola - Sustainable consumption and environmental inequalities
1 Dec 2007. Jouni Paavola - Institutions and environmental governance: A reconceptualization
15 Jun 2007. Jouni Paavola - Interstate water pollution problems and elusive federal water pollution policy in the United States, 1900-1948
21 Nov 2006. Jouni Paavola - Institutional ecological economics
15 May 2005. Jouni Paavola, W. Neil Adger - Seeking Justice: International Environmental Governance and Climate Change
25 Feb 2005. Jouni Paavola - Protected areas governance and justice: Theory and the European Union’s Habitats Directive
25 Jan 2004. Jouni Paavola - Valuing nature: Lessons learned and future research directions
25 Oct 2003. R. Kerry Turner, Jouni Paavola - Governance for sustainability: towards a ‘thick’ analysis of environmental decisionmaking
25 Jun 2003. Jouni Paavola, W. Neil Adger, K. Brown - Economic reasons for conserving wild nature
9 Aug 2002. Andrew Balmford, Jouni Paavola - Economics, ethics, and environmental policy: Contested choices
25 May 2002. Jouni Paavola - Towards sustainable consumption? Economics and ethical concerns for the environment in consumer choices
25 Oct 2001. Jouni Paavola
Books
- The Role of Risk Perceptions in Climate Change Communication: A Media Analysis of the UK Winter Floods 2015/2016
20 Jan 2018 - Susceptibility of electricity generation to climate variability and change in Europe: A review of literature
1 Jul 2016 - Environment and sustainability
29 May 2015 - Incorporating ecosystem services in decisions
4 Jun 2011 - Climate change: the ultimate tragedy of the commons?
1 Mar 2011 - Institutional Ecological Economics
25 May 2008 - Sustainability and environment
24 May 2008 - Critical perspectives on human action and deliberative economics
24 May 2008 - Valuing nature: Lessons learnt and future research directions
25 Feb 2008 - Contributions of Ecological and Institutional Economics to Environmental-Economic Analysis of River Basin Management
24 Feb 2008 - Seeking Justice: International Environmental Governance and Climate Change
25 Jan 2007 - Multifaceted justice in adaptation to climate change
25 Jun 2006 - Justice in Adaptation to Climate Change in Tanzania
1 May 2006 - Towards Justice in Adaptation to Climate Change
25 Feb 2006
Working papers
- Vulnerability of microfinance institutions to climate risk in the Satkhira District, Southwest Bangladesh
30 Mar 2017 - Can national policy blockages accelerate the development of polycentric governance? Evidence from recent developments in UK climate policy
31 Oct 2016 - Autonomous adaptation to riverine flooding in Satkhira District, Bangladesh: insights for transformation
17 Oct 2016 - A systematic review of the impacts of climate variability and change on electricity systems in Europe
14 Mar 2016 - Adaptation planning and the use of climate change projections in Local Government in England and Germany
13 Jul 2015 - Tailoring the visual communication of climate projections for local adaptation practitioners in Germany and the UK
6 Feb 2015 - The impact of climatic hazards on social network structure: Insights from community support networks in Western Uganda
1 Jun 2014 - Farmer participation in the Equitable Payments for Watershed Services in Morogoro, Tanzania
1 Jan 2013 - Climate change: the ultimate ‘tragedy of the commons’?
1 Mar 2011 - Sustainable consumption and environmental inequalities
1 Dec 2007
Policy publications
- Use of Climate Projections in Local Adaptation Planning: Lessons from England & Germany
Policy publications, 10 Aug 2016 - PREPARE: Understanding the equity and distributional impacts of climate risks and adaptation options –
Policy publications, 17 May 2013 - Socially just adaptation to climate change.
Policy publications, 13 Jul 2012