School of Earth and Environment

Jouni Paavola Professor Jouni Paavola

Professor of Environmental Social Science; Deputy Director - ESRC Centre for Climate Change Economics & Policy

Telephone number: +44(0) 113 34 36787
Email address: j.paavola@leeds.ac.uk
Room: 9.103

Biography

I am Professor of Environmental Social Science and Deputy Director of the ESRC funded Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy (CCCEP) in the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Leeds. I was Director and Co-Director of Sustainability Research Institute in Leeds from June 2009 until August 2012.

My research examines environmental governance institutions and their environmental, economic and social justice implications, with a focus on climate change and biodiversity. I have lead CCCEP research programme on climate change governance during its first five year term. I have published my research in journals such as Science, Ecology and Society, Ecological Economics, Energy Policy and Environment and Planning A, and have co-edited three volumes published by Blackwell, MIT Press and Routledge. I am member of the Scientific Committee of the European Environment Agency (EEA) and editorial boards of Ecological Economics, Environmental Policy and Governance, Environmental Science and Policy and Environmental Values.

Before joining SRI in 2006, I was Senior Research Associate in the Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment (CSERGE) at the University of East Anglia, and Research Fellow in the Oxford Centre for the Environment, Ethics and Society (OCEES) at Mansfield College. I completed an interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Resource Development (Environmental and Development Studies) in 2000 at Michigan State University in the United States. Earlier I was Researcher at Tampere University of Technology in Finland.

Research Interests

Current Projects

Current research students

      • Rachel Berman; Transforming climate change coping capacity into adaptive capacity in Uganda
      • Adrian Fenton; Climate change adaptation and micro finance: a win-win scenario?
      • Monirul Islam; Vulnerability of and Adaptation to the Impacts of Climate Variability and Change: Case study from Fisheries-based Livelihoods of Bangladesh
      • Emmanuel Kwayu; The Role of PES in Poverty Reduction and Conservation in Pangani River Basin, Tanzania
      • Susanne Lorenz; Uncertainties in climate predictions and their consequences for adaptation strategies
      • Mireia Pecurul Botines; Explaining different governance patterns of Natura 2000 implementation in forests in Spain
      • Sisira Rajapakshe; Domestic water demand, cost of water contamination and the economics of water management in the North Central Province, Sri Lanka
      • Olivia Rendon; Costs and benefits of ecosystem services from Honduras' protected areas and their distribution
      • Jose Velasquez Gomar; The effects of joint interplay management on coherence-building processes in environmental regime complexes: An analysis of experiences in the cluster of biodiversity-related convention

Areas for PhD supervision:

I welcome queries on doctoral dissertation projects on topics such as:

      • Analyses of environmental governance institutions, particularly for climate change, biodiversity and ecosystem services
      • Social justice in environmental matters
      • Vulnerability, impacts and adaptation to climate change

Publications

  • Niedzialkowski K; Paavola J; Jedrzejewska B (2013) Governance of biodiversity in Poland before and after the accession to the EU: the tale of two roads, Environmental Conservation: an international journal of environmental science, 40, . doi: 10.1017/S0376892912000288
  • Teschner N; Paavola J (2013) The role of technology in policy dynamics: the case of desalination in Israel, Environmental Policy and Governance, 23, pp.91-103. doi: 10.1002/eet.1607
  • Teschner N; Paavola J (2013) Discourses of Abundance: Transitions in Israel?s Energy Regime, Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, 15, pp.1-20. doi: 10.1080/1523908X.2013.776954
  • Stringer LS; Paavola J (2013) Participation in environmental conservation and protected area management in Romania: A review of three case studies, Environmental Conservation: an international journal of environmental science, 40, . doi: 10.1017/S0376892913000039
  • Rendon Thompson O; Paavola J; Healey J; Jones J; Baker T; Torres J (2013) Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+): transaction costs of six Peruvian projects, Ecology & Society, 18, . doi: 10.5751/ES-05239-180117
  • Haberl H; Sprinz D; Bonazountas M; Cocco P; Desaubies Y; Henze M; Hertel O; Johnson RK; Kastrup U; Laconte P; Lange E; Novak P; Paavola J; Reenberg A; van den Hove S; Vermeire T; Wadhams P; Searchinger T (2012) Correcting a fundamental error in greenhouse gas accounting related to bioenergy, Energy Policy, 45, pp.18-23. doi: 10.1016/j.enpol.2012.02.051
  • Afionis S; Fenton A; Paavola J (2012) EU climate leadership under test, Nature Climate Change, 2, pp.837-838. doi: 10.1038/nclimate1752
  • Mustalahti I; Bolin A; Boyd E; Paavola J (2012) Can REDD plus Reconcile Local Priorities and Needs with Global Mitigation Benefits? Lessons from Angai Forest, Tanzania, ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY, 17, . doi: 10.5751/ES-04498-170116
  • Berman R; Quinn C; Paavola J (2012) The role of institutions in the transformation of coping capacity to sustainable adaptive capacity, Environmental Development, 2, pp.86-100. doi: 10.1016/j.envdev.2012.03.017
  • Paavola J (2012) Climate Change: The Ultimate Tragedy of the Commons?, In: Cole DH; Ostrom E (Ed) Property in Land and Other Resources, Lincoln Institute for Land Policy, pp.417-433.
  • Niedzialkowski K; Paavola J; Jedrzejewska B (2012) Participation and Protected Areas Governance: the Impact of Changing Influence of Local Authorities on the Conservation of the Bialowieza Primeval Forest, Poland, ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY, 17, . doi: 10.5751/ES-04461-170102
  • Teschner N; McDonald A; Foxon T; Paavola J (2012) Integrated transitions toward sustainability: the case of water and energy policies in Israel, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, . doi: 10.1016/j.techfore.2011.08.013
  • Wesselink A; Paavola J; Fritsch O; Renn O (2011) Rationales for public participation in environmental policy and governance: practitioners' perspectives, Environment and Planning A: international journal of urban and regional research, 43, pp.2688-2704. doi: 10.1068/a44161
  • Paavola J (2011) Reprint of: Sewage Pollution and Institutional and Technological Change in the United States, 1830-1915, Ecological Economics, 70, pp.1289-1296. doi: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2010.07.037
  • Jolibert C; Max-Neef M; Rauschmayer F; Paavola J (2011) Should we care about the needs of nonhumans? Needs assessment: a tool for environmental conflict resolution and sustainable organization of living beings, Environmental Policy and Governance, 21, pp.259-269. doi: 10.1002/eet.578
  • McKenzie E; Irwin F; Ranganathan J; Hanson C; Kousky C; Bennett K; Ruffo S; Conte M; Salzman J; Paavola J (2011) Incorporating Ecosystem Services in Decisions, In: Kareiva PM; Tallis H; Ricketts TH; Daily GC; Polasky S (Ed) Natural Capital Theory & Practice of Mapping Ecosystem Services, Oxford University Press, pp.339-355.
  • Paavola J; Fraser EDG (2011) Ecological Economics and Environmental History, ECOL ECON, 70, pp.1266-1268. doi: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2011.03.008
  • Paavola J (2011) Sewage Pollution and Institutional and Technological Change in the United States, 1830-1915 (Reprinted from Ecological Economics, vol 69, pg 2517, 2010), ECOL ECON, 70, pp.1289-1296. doi: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2010.07.037
  • Fisher B; Turner RK; Burgess ND; Swetnam RD; Green J; Green RE; Kajembe G; Kulindwa K; Lewis SL; Marchant R; Marshall AR; Madoffe S; Munishi PKT; Morse-Jones S; Mwakalila S; Paavola J; Naidoo R; Ricketts T; Rouget M; Willcock S; White S; Balmford A (2011) Measuring, modeling and mapping ecosystem services in the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania, PROG PHYS GEOG, 35, pp.595-611. doi: 10.1177/0309133311422968
  • Udov? A; Paavola J (2010) Editorial, Environmental Policy and Governance, 20, pp.209-211. doi: 10.1002/eet.544
  • Paavola J (2010) Sewage pollution and institutional and technological change in the United States, 1830-1915, ECOL ECON, 69, pp.2517-2524. doi: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2010.07.028
  • Paavola J (2009) Dai fallimenti del mercato a una teoria istituzionale della governance ambientale, Economics and Policy of Energy and the Environment, pp.87-101.
  • Paavola J (2009) From Market Failure Paradigm to an Institutional Theory of Environmental Governance, Economia Delle Fonti Di Energia E Dell?Ambiente, 2009, pp.101-101. doi: 10.3280/EFE2009-001006
  • Rauschmayer F; Paavola J; Wittmer H (2009) European Governance of Natural Resources and Participation in a Multi-level Context., Environmental Policy and Governance, 19, pp.141-147. doi: 10.1002/eet.504
  • Paavola J; Gouldson A; Kluvankova-Oravska T (2009) The Interplay of Actors, Scales, Frameworks and Regimes in the Governance of Biodiversity, Environmental Policy and Governance, 19, pp.148-158. doi: 10.1002/eet.505
  • Paavola J (2009) A New Deal on Climate Change in Copenhagen?, ENVIRON VALUE, 18, pp.393-396. doi: 10.3197/096327109X12532653285650
  • Turner RK; Paavola J; Farber S; Cooper P; Jessamy V; Rosendo S; Georgiou S (2008) Valuing nature: lessons learnt and future research directions, In: Martinez-Alier J; Røpke I (Ed) Recent Developments in Ecological Economics, Edward Elgar, pp.189-206.
  • Fisher B; Turner K; Zylstra M; Brouwer R; de Groot R; Farber S; Ferraro P; Green R; Hadley D; Harlow J; Jefferiss P; Kirkby C; Morling P; Mowatt S; Naidoo R; Paavola J; Strassburg B; Yu D; Balmford A (2008) ECOSYSTEM SERVICES AND ECONOMIC THEORY: INTEGRATION FOR POLICY-RELEVANT RESEARCH, Ecological Applications, 18, pp.2050-2067. doi: 10.1890/07-1537.1
  • Paavola J (2008) Science and social justice in the governance of adaptation to climate change, ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS, 17, pp.644-659. doi: 10.1080/09644010802193609
  • Paavola J (2008) Governing Atmospheric Sinks: The Architecture of Entitlements in the Global Commons, International Journal of the Commons, 2, pp.313-336.
  • Paavola J (2008) Livelihoods, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in Morogoro, Tanzania, ENVIRON SCI POLICY, 11, pp.642-654. doi: 10.1016/j.envsci.2008.06.002
  • Paavola J; Adger WN (2008) Institutional Ecological Economics, In: Martinez-Alier J; Røpke I (Ed) Recent Developments in Ecological Economics, Edward Elgar Publishing, pp.383-398.
  • Zografos C; Paavola J (2008) Critical Perspectives on Human Action and Deliberative Economics, In: Zografos C; Howarth RB (Ed) Deliberative Ecological Economics, Oxford University Press, pp.146-166.
  • Paavola J (2008) Contributions of Ecological and Institutional Economics to Environmental-Economic Analysis of River Basin Management, In: Dehnhardt A; Petshcow U (Ed) Governance of River Basins, Oekom Verlag, pp.93-108.
  • Seyfang G; Paavola J (2008) Inequality and Sustainable Consumption: Bridging the Gaps, Local Environment, 13, pp.669-684. doi: 10.1080/13549830802475559
  • Paavola J (2008) Towards Polyvocal Environmental Debates, ENVIRON VALUE, 17, pp.433-436. doi: 10.3197/096327108X368476
  • Paavola J; Ropke I (2008) Sustainability and Environment, In: Davis JB; Dolfsma W (Ed) Elgar Companion to Social Economics, Edward Elgar, pp.11-27.
  • Seyfang G; Paavola J (2007) Sustainable consumption and environmental inequalities, Working Paper - Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment, pp.1-29.
  • Paavola J (2007) Institutions and environmental governance: A reconceptualization, ECOL ECON, 63, pp.93-103. doi: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2006.09.026
  • Paavola J (2007) Seeking Justice: International Environmental Governance and Climate Change, In: Oosthoek J; Gills BK (Ed) The Globalization of Environmental Crisis, Routledge, pp.27-40.
  • Adger WN; Paavola J; Huq S (2006) Towards Justice in Adaptation to Climate Change, In: Adger WN; Paavola J; Huq S; Mace MJ (Ed) Fairness in Adaptation to Climate Change, The MIT Press, pp.1-19.
  • Paavola J (2006) Interstate Water Pollution Problems and Elusive Federal Water Pollution Policy in the United States, 1900-1948, Environment and History , 12, pp.435-465.
  • Paavola J (2006) Justice in Adaptation to Climate Change in Tanzania, In: Adger WN; Paavola J; Huq S; Mace MJ (Ed) Fairness in Adaptation to Climate Change, The MIT Press, pp.201-222.
  • Paavola J; Adger WN; Huq S (2006) Multifaceted Justice in Adaptation to Climate Change, In: Adger WN; Paavola J; Huq S; Mace MJ (Ed) Fairness in Adaptation to Climate Change, The MIT Press, pp.263-277.
  • Adger WN; Paavola J; Mace MJ; Huq S (2006) Fairness in Adaptation to Climate Change, MIT Press, pp.312p.
  • Paavola J; Adger WN (2005) Institutional Ecological Economics, Ecological Economics, 53, pp.353-368. doi: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2004.09.017
  • Paavola J (2005) Seeking Justice: International Environmental Governance and Climate Change, Globalizations, 2, pp.309-322. doi: 10.1080/14747730500367850
  • Paavola J; Adger WN (2005) Fair Adaptation to Climate Change, Ecological Economics, 56, pp.594-609. doi: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2005.03.015
  • Paavola J; Lowe I (2005) Environmental Values in a Globalising World: Nature, Justice and Governance, Routledge, pp.256p.
  • Paavola J (2004) Protected Areas Governance and Justice: Theory and the European Union?s Habitats Directive, Environmental Sciences, 1, pp.59-77. doi: 10.1076/evms.1.1.59.23763
  • Paavola J (2003) Environmental decisions and theories of justice: Implications for economic analysis and policy practice, Forum for Social Economics, 33, pp.33-43.
  • Adger WN; Brown K; Fairbrass J; Jordan A; Paavola J; Rosendo S; Seyfang G (2003) Governance for sustainability: towards a 'thick' analysis of environmental decisionmaking, Environment and Planning A, 35, pp.1095-1110. doi: 10.1068/a35289
  • Turner RK; Paavola J; Cooper P; Farber S; Jessamy V; Georgiou S (2003) Valuing nature: lessons learned and future research directions, Ecological Economics, 46, pp.493-510. doi: 10.1016/S0921-8009(03)00189-7
  • Bromley DW; Paavola J (2002) Economics, Ethics, and Environmental Policy: Contested Choices, Blackwell, pp.304p.
  • Balmford A; Bruner A; Cooper P; Costanza R; Farber S; Green RE; Jenkins M; Jefferiss P; Jessamy V; Madden J; Munro K; Myers N; Naeem S; Paavola J; Rayment M; Rosendo S; Roughgrarden J; Trumper K; Turner RK (2002) Economic Reasons for Conserving Wild Nature, Science, 297, pp.950-953. doi: 10.1126/science.1073947
  • Paavola J (2002) Water Quality as Property: Industrial Water Pollution and Common Law in the Nineteenth Century United States, Environment and History , 8, pp.295-318.
  • Paavola J (2001) Towards Sustainable Consumption? Economics and Ethical Concerns for the Environment in Consumer Choices, Review of Social Economy, 59, pp.227-248. doi: 10.1080/00346760110036175
  • Paavola J (1998) Book Reviews, Review of Social Economy, 56, pp.389-393.
  • Sallu S; Islam M; Hubacek K; Paavola J (Not yet published) Vulnerability of Fishery-Based Livelihoods to the Impacts of Climate Variability and Change: Insights from Coastal Bangladesh, Regional Environmental Change, .