Articles/Book Chapters

On this page you can find publications that are related to the themes of the project. Please click the title of the article to be taken to the article on the publishers web page.

Forthcoming

Deradicalizing degrowth and decolonial justice in the EU’s green politics

Ramcilovic-Suominen, S. (Forthcoming). “Deradicalizing degrowth and decolonial justice in the EU’s green politics.” in Just Socioecological Transformations, edited by S. Ramcilovic-Suominen. Routledge.


Centering Feminist Ethic of Care in Socio-Ecological Transformative Movements

Jauhola, M., Oguz, A., Sundström, S., Steiler, I., Gutiérrez Zamora, V. (Forthcoming). “Centering Feminist Ethic of Care in Socio-Ecological Transformative Movements”, in Just Socioecological Transformations, edited by Ramcilovic-Suominen. Routledge.


How can affective, decolonial and feminist approaches inform the EU Bioeconomy?

Ramcilovic-Suominen, S., Giuntoli, J., and Mehta, L. (Pre-Print version)


Capitalism as Colonialism as Capitalism

Ramcilovic-Suominen, S. (Forthcoming). “Capitalism as Colonialism as Capitalism.” in Retheorizing Capitalism, edited by I., Gataulina, A. Kangas, M. Poutanen, A.I. Rajala, H-E. Ventovirta. Tampere University Press.


2024

Forest (landscape) restoration governance: Institutions, interests, ideas, and their interlinked logics.

Kleinschmit, D., Blum, M., Brockhaus, M., Karambiri, M., Kröger, M., Ramcilovic-Suominen, S., Reinecke, S, and Ongolo S. (2024). ‘Forest (landscape) restoration governance: Institutions, interests, ideas, and their interlinked logics’, in Pia Katila, and others (eds), Restoring Forests and Trees for Sustainable Development: Policies, Practices, Impacts, and Ways Forward (New York, NY
, 2024; online edn, Oxford Academic, 6 Sept. 2024), https://doi.org/10.1093/9780197683958.003.0003


Decolonial environmental justice in landscape restoration

Ramcilovic-Suominen, S., Chomba, S., Larson, A. M., & Sinclair, F. (2024). “Decolonial environmental justice in landscape restoration.” in Restoring Forests for Sustainable Development: Policies, Practices and Impacts, edited by P. Katila, C. J. Pierce Colfer, W. de Jong, G. Galloway, P. Pacheco, and G. Winkel. Oxford University Press, Oxford. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780197683958.003.0004


Democracy through technocracy? Reinventing civil society as a state-monitored and unpaid service provider in the EU FLEGT VPA in Laos

Ramcilovic-Suominen, S. (2024). Democracy through technocracy? Reinventing civil society as a state-monitored and unpaid service provider in the EU FLEGT VPA in Laos. Global Environmental Change85, 102809. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2024.102809


Transformation or more of the same? The EU’s deforestation-free products regulation through a radical transformation lens

Verhaeghe, E., & Ramcilovic-Suominen, S. (2024). Transformation or more of the same? The EU’s deforestation-free products regulation through a radical transformation lens. Environmental Science & Policy158, 103807. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103807


2023

Is the EU shirking responsibility for its deforestation footprint in tropical countries? Power, material, and epistemic inequalities in the EU’s global environmental governance

Kumeh, E.M., Ramcilovic-Suominen, S. (2023). Is the EU shirking responsibility for its deforestation footprint in tropical countries? Power, material, and epistemic inequalities in the EU’s global environmental governance. Sustain Sci 18, 599–616. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-023-01302-7


From hegemony-reinforcing to hegemony-transcending transformations: horizons of possibility and strategies of escape

Hamilton, R.T.V., Ramcilovic-Suominen, S. (2023). From hegemony-reinforcing to hegemony-transcending transformations: horizons of possibility and strategies of escape. Sustain Sci 18, 737–748. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-022-01257-1


Envisioning just transformations in and beyond the EU bioeconomy: inspirations from decolonial environmental justice and degrowth

Ramcilovic-Suominen, S. (2023). Envisioning just transformations in and beyond the EU bioeconomy: inspirations from decolonial environmental justice and degrowth. Sustain Sci 18, 707–722. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-022-01091-580-021-01618-7


Effects of EU illegal logging policy on timber-supplying countries: A systematic review

Villanueva, F.D.P., Tegegne, Y.T., Winkel, G., Cerutti, P.O., Ramcilovic-Suominen, S., McDermott, C.L., Zeitlin, J., Sotirov, M., Cashore, B., Wardell, D.A. and Haywood, A. (2023). Effects of EU illegal logging policy on timber-supplying countries: A systematic review. Journal of Environmental Management327, p.116874. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.116874


Key Logics of International Forest Governance and SDG 15

Kleinschmit, D., Blum, M., Brockhaus, M., Karambiri, M., Kröger, M., Ramcilovic-Suominen, S., & Reinecke, S. (2023). Key Logics of International Forest Governance and SDG 15. In The Environment in Global Sustainability Governance (pp. 47-69). Bristol University Press. https://doi.org/10.56687/9781529228021-007


The Finnish Bioeconomy Beyond Growth

Vezzoni, R., & Ramcilovic, S. (2023). The Finnish Bioeconomy Beyond Growth. Luke Report, 104/2023. http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-380-817-1


Indigenous Knowledge in the Amazon’s Bioeconomy: Unveiling Bioepistemicide through the case of Kambo Medicine

Gebara, M. F., Ramcilovic-Suominen, S., & Schmidlehner, M. F. (2023). Indigenous Knowledge in the Amazon’s Bioeconomy: Unveiling Bioepistemicide through the case of Kambo Medicine. Forest Policy and Economics154, 103012. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2023.103012


Neoliberal pathways to the bioeconomy: Forest land use institutions in Chile, Finland, and Laos

Hiedanpää, J., Ramcilovik-Suominen, S., & Salo, M. (2023). Neoliberal pathways to the bioeconomy: Forest land use institutions in Chile, Finland, and Laos. Forest Policy and Economics155, 103041. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2023.103041


The more things change, the more they stay the same: promises of bioeconomy and the economy of promises

Eversberg, D., Koch, P., Lehmann, R., Saltelli, A., Ramcilovic-Suominen, S., & Kovacic, Z. (2023). The more things change, the more they stay the same: promises of bioeconomy and the economy of promises. Sustain Sci 18, 557–568. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-023-01321-4


Exploring new visions for a sustainable bioeconomy

European Commission: Joint Research Centre, Giuntoli, J., Ramcilovic-Suominen, S., Oliver, T., Kallis, G., Monbiot, G., & Mubareka, S. (2023). Exploring new visions for a sustainable bioeconomy, (S.Mubareka,edito) Publications Office of the European Union. https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2760/79421


Global Environmental justice and why it matters in EU’s Bioeconomy

Ramcilovic-Suominen, S. (2023). Global Environmental justice and why it matters in EU’s Bioeconomy. Chapter 5 in Exploring new visions for a sustainable bioeconomy. (S.Mubareka,edito) Publications Office of the European Union. https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2760/79421


Linking degrowth, justice and human-nature relations with a common thread of transformations

Ramcilovic-Suominen, S. (2023). Linking degrowth, justice and human-nature relations with a common thread of transformations. Chapter 7 in Exploring new visions for a sustainable bioeconomy. (S.Mubareka,edito) Publications Office of the European Union. https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2760/79421


2022

From pro-growth and planetary limits to degrowth and decoloniality: An emerging bioeconomy policy and research agenda

Ramcilovic-Suominen, S., Kröger, M., & Dressler, W. (2022). From pro-growth and planetary limits to degrowth and decoloniality: An emerging bioeconomy policy and research agenda. Forest Policy and Economics144, 102819. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2022.102819


Community forest monitoring and the social reproduction of inequalities in Ghana

Asumang-Yeboah, D., Kumeh, E. M., & Brobbey, L. K. (2022). Community forest monitoring and the social reproduction of inequalities in Ghana. Geoforum134, 86-95. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2022.06.008


The evolving governance of REDD+

McDermott, C., Vira, B., Walcott, J., Brockhaus, M., Harris, M., Mensah Kumeh, E., & d e Mendonça Gueiros, C. (2022). The evolving governance of REDD+. in Assessing a Decade of REDD+, Forests, Climate, Biodiversity and People, edited by J. Parotta, S. Mansourian, C. Wildburger, & N. Grima. 21-60. Vienna: International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO).


2021

Customary power, farmer strategies and the dynamics of access to protected forestlands for farming: Implications for Ghana’s forest bioeconomy

Kumeh, E. M., Kyereh, B., Birkenberg, A., & Birner, R. (2021). Customary power, farmer strategies and the dynamics of access to protected forestlands for farming: Implications for Ghana’s forest bioeconomy. Forest Policy and Economics133, 102597. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2021.102597


Environmental justice and REDD+ safeguards in Laos: Lessons from an authoritarian political regime

Ramcilovic-Suominen, S., Carodenuto, S., McDermott, C., & Hiedanpää, J. (2021). Environmental justice and REDD+ safeguards in Laos: Lessons from an authoritarian political regime. Ambio 50, 2256–2271. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-021-01618-7