Johanna Yletyinen


General description

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 (especially social-ecological resilience), 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.

Please click here for the complete list of my publications: https://johannayletyinen.com/publications/

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.se/citations?user=xrRjfMgAAAAJ&hl=en


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Research interests

My research on natural resource management is deeply rooted in sustainability science, resilience thinking, and systems science. 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.
- 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.
- improving our understanding on resilience (especially social-ecological resilience) 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.
- network analysis (ecological, social, social-ecological)


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Natural resource management, natural resource governance, resilience, social-ecological resilience, social-ecological systems, human-environment interactions, system science, complex adaptive systems, social-ecological models, human-environment models, resilience thinking, network science, interdisciplinary science, multidisciplinary science, resilience indicators, network analysis, social-ecological networks, human-nature relationships, human impact on environment, environmental change, adaptation to environmental change


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Last updated on 2024-17-04 at 21:26