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The project concluded that a sense of community, active communication and resident participation play key roles in the development of local waste management, recycling, and sorting practices.
A study conducted in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam’s largest city of 9 million residents, showed that people living in the city’s established and new urban areas have access to better-quality and better-accessible healthcare than people living in the suburban areas.
Finland's role as a support structure was further highlighted when the result of the Brexit referendum disrupted Finns' everyday lives in the UK.
The course focuses on concrete ways to prevent conflicts between different actors.
Citizens’ awareness of critical raw materials is low, which may affect their attitudes towards, and acceptance of, mining activities.
Researchers at the University of Eastern Finland and the University of Namibia used diverse remote sensing data to ascertain how elephants and other large herbivorous mammals affect vegetation and its structure.
When people move elsewhere, municipalities have to keep an increasingly close eye on how they spend their dwindling resources.
The Academy of Finland’s Research Council for Culture and Society granted funding for new Academy Research Fellow and Postdoctoral Researcher posts.
The new opportunities for participation can also disproportionately burden or even impose responsibilities on actors, whether citizens or authorities, who do not necessarily have the skills and resources to take on new responsibilities.
Heli Huhtamaa defended her doctoral dissertation at the University of Eastern Finland and the University of Bern in 2017. Now, she is working at the prestigious Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, studying the effects of past volcanic eruptions.