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.
- Viljelymaisema maatalouden tuotteena (2004) Elämää pellossa. Suomen maatalousympäristön monimuotoisuus Reija Hietala-Koivu, Jyrki Aakkula
- Agri-environmental and rural development indicators: a proposal (2002) Anja Yli-Viikari, Helmi Risku-Norja, Visa Nuutinen, Esa Heinonen, Reija Hietala-Koivu, Erja Huusela-Veistola, Terho Hyvönen, Juha Kantanen, Satu Raussi, Pasi Rikkonen, Anu Seppälä, Elina Vehmasto
- Landscape and modernizing agriculture: a case study of three areas in Finland in 1954-1998 (2002)
- Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment
- Measures of the EU Agri-Environmental Protection Scheme (GAEPS) and their impacts on the visual acceptability of Finnish agricultural landscapes (2002)
- Journal of Environmental Management
- Maisema (2000) Maatalouden kestävyyden indikaattorit Reija Hietala-Koivu
- Agricultural landscape change: a case study in Yläne, southwest Finland (1999)
- Landscape and Urban Planning
- Visuaalinen maisema maatalouden ympäristöohjelman vaikuttavuuden seurannassa (1999) Reija Hietala-Koivu, Liisa Tahvanainen, Ismo Nousiainen, Tapio Heikkilä, Aulikki Alanen, Marjut Ihalainen, Liisa Tyrväinen, Juha Helenius
- Maantiede ja maisemaekologia maaseudun maiseman muutostutkimuksessa (1996)
- Terra: Maantieteellinen Aikakauskirja
- Maaseudun kulttuurimaiseman arvot (1996) Maiseman Arvo(s)tus Anja Olin, Reija Hietala-Koivu



