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Environment
Soil and environment
Environmental management
  EKI Team
Environmental Knowledge and Interactions
  IRE Team
Industrial and Regional Ecology
  GIS Team
  Laboratory Team
Ecological Production
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Environmental management

Environmental management is an interdisciplinary field of research. It focuses on the environmental and social relations of agriculture and rural enterprises aiming for the sustainable use of natural resources.

The research produces environmental information on food production for decision-making and eco-design. Environmental applications of geoinformatics are utilized in the regional agro-ecological research. The social and cultural conditions of rural environment are explored using qualitative methods.

Recent research topics include life cycles of food, material flows in agriculture, environmental load of agriculture at watershed scale, eco-design of rural products, indicators for agriculture and rural development, social capital in rural communities, environmental education, landscape and biodiversity perceptions and ecological entrepreneurship.

Environmental management is headed by Professor Sirpa Kurppa.

 

 

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