Brown Bag Seminar: From rural to urban - co-developing a land use change plan and multidisciplinary urban planning

Dr Aleksi Räsänen will discuss how co-planning a land use change plan and collaboration between different actors can help reach environmental and social sustainability targets in a rural river basin, in this case in the Kiiminkijoki river catchment.

Dr Anna Suorsa will talk about how incorporating new scientific knowledge into decision-making processes requires focusing on developing new knowledge and information practices on many levels, to enable multidisciplinary collaboration. This is viewed especially in the context of developing urban planning that considers the connections between human wellbeing and environment.

The seminar will take place on Tuesday 10th of September from 11 am to 12 pm at Tellus Stage on Linnanmaa campus. Lunch will be provided for those who register by Thursday 5th of September at 12 pm. The seminar will be in English.

If you cannot make it to the Linnanmaa campus, you can also participate via Zoom. If you participate via Zoom, you don’t need to register for the event.

Dr Aleksi Räsänen is a tenure track Associate Professor of Spatial Resilience Research Methods in the Faculty of Science, Geography Research Unit. He has also started as an Associate Professor in the Profi7 Frontiers of Arctic and Global Resilience (FRONT) research programme in January 2024. He is a Doctor of Philosophy in the field of environmental science and technology and holds the title of Docent in the University of Helsinki and in the University of Eastern Finland (Geography, especially Environmental Geoinformatics). Previously he has served as a Senior scientist in the Natural Resources Institute Finland.

Dr Anna Suorsa a University Lecturer in the Faculty of Humanities, Unit of History, Culture and Communication Studies. She holds a degree of Doctor of Philosophy in information studies. She is currently working in the multidisciplinary RECIPE project that explores the role of urban living environments and the potential of urban planning in anticipation and prevention of infectious diseases and thus pandemic outbreaks. Previously she has worked e.g. in BCDC Energy and GenZ projects.

UniOGS Doctoral Researchers: You can add Brown Bag Seminars in your personal learning plan and once you have attended 10 Brown Bag Seminars, you can get 0,5 credits of doctoral studies.

The aim of the Brown Bag Seminars is to showcase University of Oulu’s research and to encourage knowledge-sharing and networking amongst our researchers. Once a month, we invite two of our researchers from different fields to talk about their research related to the same topic. Brown Bag Seminars are open to everyone - come learn something new and join in the conversation!