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.
- Impacts of edge density of field patches on plant species richness and community turnover among margin habitats in agricultural landscapes (2013)
- Ecological Indicators
- Nearby Nature and Experiential Farming: How are their Roles Perceived within the Rural-Urban Fringe? (2013)
- Landscape Research
- Human driving forces for ecosystem services in the Himalayan region (2012) Maohua Ma, Ram Babu Singh, Reija Hietala
- Localisation of primary food production in Finland: production potential and environmental impacts of food consumption patterns (2008)
- Agricultural and Food Science
- Analyysi maatalouden ympäristötukijärjestelmästä 2000-2006 (2007) Juha Grönroos, Reija Hietala-Koivu, Mikko Kuussaari, Pirkko Laitinen, Jussi Lankoski, Riitta Lemola, Antti Miettinen, Paula Perälä, Markku Puustinen, Anna Schulman, Tapio Salo, Katri Siimes, Eila Turtola
- Evaluating agri-environmental indicators (AEIs) - Use and limitations of international indicators at national level (2007)
- Ecological Indicators
- Maisema asukkaiden silmin. Tapaustutkimus Koskenkylässä ja Pernajanlahdella (2007) Tyrväinen Liisa, Hietala Reija, Silvennoinen Harri, Sipilä Maija
- Paikallinen ruokajärjestelmä: ruoantuotanto ja -kulutus sekä ympäristövaikutukset. Aineisto ja menetelmät (2007)
- MTT:n selvityksiä
- Systems frame for multidisciplinary study on sustainability of localising food (2007)
- Progress in Industrial Ecology, An International Journal
- Toimintamallin kehittäminen riistatarhaukseen. Case: Peltopyytarhauksen toimintamallin kehittäminen. (2007) Juha Rutanen, Tuija Liukkonen, Reija Hietala-Koivu, Sami Kurki, Markku Salonen



