Johanna Yletyinen
Biography
My research investigates the resilience and sustainability of natural resource systems from a complex adaptive systems perspective. My work focuses on finding solutions to mitigating anthropogenic environmental change while meeting humanity's needs at the time of the escalating human demand for natural resources.
I am specialized in resilience thinking, tipping points and (sustainability) transformations, sustainability science, systems science, complex adaptive systems perspective on human-environment interactions, and network analysis. I am especially interested in the complex and adaptive nature of human-environment interactions, and their direct and indirect consequences on humans and non-human natures.
My work is often based on describing and analysing human-environment interactions with quantitative social-ecological system models.
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Research interests
My research interests include
- using multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to find solutions that promote human wellbeing and the wellbeing of non-human nature simultaneously, or identify the possible trade-offs between the two.
- improving our understanding on resilience (especially social-ecological resilience), tipping points, and system transformations, and testing and developing new approaches to resilience research so we can avoid causing undesired, hard-to-reverse ecosystem changes and support human adaptation to the global environmental change.
- examining the environmental issues from the perspective of complex adaptive systems to identify, explain, or predict complexity-based behaviours in ecosystems and social-ecological systems, such as emergence.
- developing social-ecological models that bring together theories and emerging ideas in social and natural sciences to improve our understanding on the nature and outcomes of human-environment interactions.
- network analysis (ecological, social, social-ecological)
