Studia Generalia: Environmental collaboration in sustainability transformation

The Sustainability Transformation Doctoral Education Pilot (SusTra) offers open Studia Generalia lectures in autumn 2025. The best experts in the field offer the lecture series, tackling the pressing sustainability challenges we face. These 14 online lectures will provide impactful insights into creating a sustainable life and society across various domains, including work, business, leadership, administration, legislation, social imagination, well-being, and education.
These Studia Generalia lectures are based on an open Sopuli PhD course organised by SusTra Doctoral Education Pilot, a collaboration of 10 universities and Finnish Environment Institute SYKE, www.uef.fi/sustra

• Osallistu luennolle tästä: https://uef.zoom.us/j/64857640310

Thu 13.11. Irmeli Mustalahti, University of Eastern Finland: Environmental collaboration in sustainability transformation

• Theme of the lecture: Environmental collaboration gives possibilities to solve the sustainability challenges jointly with collaborative actors and sector as well as avoid sectoral silos in environmental governance. Theory of collaborative governance address to diverging interest and interdependency as a part of creation of collaboration and problem solving.
• Irmeli Mustalahti is a professor of natural resources governance at Department of Geographical and Historical Studies, Environmental Policy, University of Eastern Finland. Her research interests are related natural resources governance, environmental political development studies and social scientific environmental studies. She is a leader of the research group called Responsive Natural Resources Governance (RNRG) and international network of Environmental Collaboration and Conflict Resolution (ECCR course series and teaching network).
   

Further information

Responsible course leader: Professor Arto O. Salonen, UEF 

Course coordination: Research manager Meri Löyttyniemi, UEF