On this page you can find publications that are related to the themes of the project. For all published works, please click the title of the article to be taken to the article on the publishers web page. Forthcoming works will be linked appropriately as they are published.
Forthcoming
Just Global Socioecological Transformations: It takes a worldview change to change the world?
Ramcilovic-Suominen, S. (2025, In press) “Just Global Socioecological Transformations: It takes a worldview change to change the world?”. Chapter I. In Socioecological Transformations: Linking ontologies with structures, personal with collective change, edited by S. Ramcilovic-Suominen, Routledge.
On the illusion of separate self (as root cause of socioecological crises) and Radical Intraconnectedness (as precondition for healing and transforming)
Ramcilovic-Suominen, S. (2025, In press) “On the illusion of separate self (as root cause of socioecological crises) and Radical Intraconnectedness (as precondition for healing and transforming)”. Chapter II. In Socioecological Transformations: Linking ontologies with structures, personal with collective change, edited by S. Ramcilovic-Suominen, Routledge.
The EU Green transition as a barrier for socioecological transformations: Deradicalizing transformations, degrowth, decoloniality and justice in the EU’s green politics
Ramcilovic-Suominen, S. (2025, In press). “The EU Green transition as a barrier for socioecological transformations: Deradicalizing transformations, degrowth, decoloniality and justice in the EU’s green politics”. Chapter XII. In Socioecological Transformations: Linking ontologies with structures, personal with collective change, edited by S. Ramcilovic-Suominen, Routledge.
Broadening the scope for just socioecological transformations: ideas, structures and alliances
Ramcilovic-Suominen, S., Gram-Hanssen, I. (2025, In press) “Broadening the scope for just socioecological transformations: ideas, structures and alliances”. Chapter XV. In Socioecological Transformations: Linking ontologies with structures, personal with collective change, 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.
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.
2025
How can relational, decolonial and feminist approaches inform the EU bioeconomy?
Ramcilovic-Suominen, S., Giuntoli, J., Oliver, T., Mehta, L. (2025). How can relational, decolonial and feminist approaches inform the EU bioeconomy?. Sustain Sci (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-024-01613-3
2024
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
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 Change, 85, 102809. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2024.102809
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 & Policy, 158, 103807. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103807
The political ecology of cocoa agroforestry and implications for equitable land use in rural Ghana
Kumeh, E.M. The political ecology of cocoa agroforestry and implications for equitable land use in rural Ghana. Agroforest Syst 98, 2463–2481 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10457-024-01041-3
A Political Ecology and Economy of Key Trends in International Forest Governance.
McDermott, C.L., Burns, S.L., Brockhaus, M., Waty Bong, I., Hafferty, C., Hirons, M., Kumeh, E.M., Koh, N.S., Moeliono, M., Pietarinen, N., Sahide, M.A.K., Ville, A., Wong, G.Y. (2024). Political Ecology and Economy of Key Trends in International Forest Governance. In International Forest Governance: A Critical Review of Trends, Drawbacks, and New Approaches. IUFRO World Series Volume 43. 19–56.
2023
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
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
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 Management, 327, 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
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 Economics, 154, 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 Economics, 155, 103041. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2023.103041
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
Kumeh, E. M. (2023). Contestations, counteractions and equitable conservation–a case study of Ghana’s Krokosua Hills Forest Reserve. Forest Policy and Economics, 157, 103090. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2023.103090
2022
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 Economics, 144, 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. Geoforum, 134, 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).
Food-security corridors: A crucial but missing link in tackling deforestation in Southwestern Ghana
Kumeh, E. M., Bieling, C., & Birner, R. (2022). Food-security corridors: A crucial but missing link in tackling deforestation in Southwestern Ghana. Land Use Policy, 112, 105862. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2021.105862
2021
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 Economics, 133, 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
