Anita Poturalska

MSc.
Doctoral Researcher

Geography
Faculty of Science

Anita Poturalska is a doctoral researcher in Physical Geography and Geoinformatics Research Groups. Her work focuses on mapping the spatial and temporal characteristics of ecosystem services at different scales. Anita's expertise lies in spatial analysis, conceptualization of ecosystem service mapping and understanding the application of these concepts in practice. Exploring the human-environment relationship and the sustainable consumption of natural resources are Anita’s main research interests. Her doctoral research is a part of AccESS project.

Poturalska is also working in Global Food project, which studies the global accessibility of food resources.

Research interests

  • Ecosystem services
  • Accessibility
  • GIS
  • Provisioning services
  • Cultural services
  • Multiscale mapping approaches

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Anita Poturalska

Contact information

E-mail

Anita.Poturalska@oulu.fi

Postal address

Geography Research Unit
P.O. Box 3000
FI-90014 University of Oulu
FINLAND

Keywords

Natural Sciences, Environment accessibility of services geography geoinformation systems (gis) Environmental humanities social environmental research

Projects

Exploring geographical mismatch between supply and demand of ecosystem services using big and open source data across high latitudes