Reija Hietala
Adj. Prof., PhD
Agricultural landscape; Greening policy; Sustainability; Land use change; Food production; Food security; Physical geography; Rural-Urban fringe; Soil health; Urban agriculture; Environmental management; Integrated coastal zone management
I am a physical geographer with a long career as the researcher of the sustainability of the agricultural environments experienced also as the university teacher of the agri-food issues, physical and regional geography and geoinformatics. I have been leading numerous national and international research projects e.g., on the visual monitoring of the agricultural landscapes (Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry: MYTVAS I, II, III 1996-2014); rural-urban land use preferences (Helsinki University Environmental Research 2003-2006); the livelihood security in the changing socio-economic environments in India (Academy of Finland 2009-2014); the integrated coastal land use planning in Finland and Estonia (EU Interreg Central Baltic Programme 2016-2019) and the environmental sustainability of urban agriculture as the visiting scholar of Fudan University, in 2019/2020 in Shanghai. Currently, I am keenly involved in the security of supply of the food chain (EAKR 2021-2023) and stormwater management (Ministry of the Environment 2021-2022) related projects as the project specialist at the Pyhäjärvi Institute, Eura.
- Data integration and participatory process in developing integrated coastal zone management (ICZM) in the northern Baltic Sea (2021)
- Journal of Coastal Conservation
- Does Small-Scale Organic Farming Contribute to the Local Environment—A Case Study in Suburban Shanghai, China (2021)
- Agronomy
- Perceptions of Cultural Ecosystem Services: spatial differences in urban and rural areas of Kokemäenjoki, Finland (2021)
- Landscape Research
- A methodological Markov-CA projection of the greening agricultural landscape—a case study from 2005 to 2017 in southwestern Finland (2018)
- Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
- Socio-economic perspectives on the livelihood security in a changing Himachal Pradesh, India (2017) Research on India in Finland: Past, Present, Future Tikli Loivaranta, Reija Hietala, Rebecca Frilund
- Integrating ecological restoration into CDM forestry projects (2014)
- Environmental Science and Policy
- Livelihood Security in Changing Socio-Economic Environment in Himachal Pradesh – Introduction (2014) Livelihood Security in Northwestern Himalaya - Case Studies from Changing Socio-economic Environments in Himachal Pradesh, India R.B. Singh, Risto Kalliola, Reija Hietala
- Livelihood Security in Changing Socio-Economic Environment - Summary and Policy Recommendations (2014) Livelihood Security in Northwestern Himalaya - Case Studies from Changing Socio-economic Environments in Himachal Pradesh, India Reija Hietala, R.B. Singh
- Livelihood security in Northwestern Himalaya - Case Studies from Changing Socio-economic Environments in Himachal Pradesh, India (2014) Singh R.B., Hietala, Reija
- Ympäristötuen merkitys visuaaliselle maisemalle (2014) Maatalouden ympäristötuen vaikuttavuuden seurantatutkimus (MYTVAS3) - Loppuraportti Pihla Sillanpää, Reija Hietala, Tapio Heikkilä, Eija Pouta, Katriina Soini, Marja Uusitalo, Timo Hurme
