Annika Lonkila

© Saara Sivonen

Senior Research Scientist

PhD (Environmental policy), University of Eastern Finland
LL.M., University of Helsinki

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E-mail: firstname.lastname@syke.fi
Tel: +358 295 252 032
Finnish Environment Institute (Syke)
Societal change
Just transformation
Latokartanonkaari 11
00790 Helsinki
Finland

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I explore the just transformation towards more sustainable systems and policy measures guiding the way. My work focuses mostly on the food system, where I have studied the transition potential of plant-based food, farmers' role in the food system transition, ethics and politics of livestock breeding, and peatland politics.

Questions of justice, especially in regard to more just and equal multispecies relations, are at the core of my research interests. Theoretically I draw from the research traditions of Science and Technology Studies and Sustainability Transitions scholarship.

I also do legal research, for example related to novel protein sources and conflict management in the land use sector. 

Research projects

• Eating and Energy Use Reconfigured (EE-TRANS)
• Sustainable, climate-smart and just food system (JUST-FOOD)
• Carbon sinks and climate benefits with controlled risks (HILMARI)
• Sustainable niche for farmed animals in food systems (SustAnimalFood)

Latest publications

• Puupponen A., Lonkila, A. Savikurki A., Karttunen, K., Huttunen, S. Ott, A. 2022. Finnish dairy farmers' perceptions of justice in the transition to carbon-neutral farming. Journal of Rural Studies, 90, 104–112. 
• Lonkila, A. 2022. Making invisible cows? Genomic knowledge and more-than-human agency in Finnish dairy breeding. PhD thesis. Publications of the University of Eastern Finland, No 278. 
• Lonkila, A., Kaljonen, M. 2022. Ontological struggle over new product category: transition potential of meat alternatives. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 42, 1–11. 
• Lonkila, A, Kaljonen, M. 2021. Promises of meat and milk alternatives -- integrative literature review on emergent research themes. Agriculture and Human Values (2021).
• Huttunen, S., Kaljonen, M., Lonkila, A., Rantala, S., Rekola, A., Paloniemi, A. 2021. Pluralising agency to understand behaviour change in sustainability transitions. Energy Research and Social Science 76, 102067
• Kivimaa, P. Lonkila A., Laakso S., Kaljonen, M. 2021. Moving beyond disruptive innovations: a review of disruption in sustainability transitions. Environmental Innovation and Sustainability Transitions 38, 110-126.
• Lonkila, A. 2021. Care-full research ethics in multispecies relations on dairy farms. Cultural geographies, 28:3, 479–493.
• Lähteenmäki-Uutela, A., Rahikainen, M., Lonkila, A. & B. Yang, 2021. Alternative proteins and EU food law. Food Control, 130.
• Lähteenmäki-Uutela, A., Lonkila, A., Huttunen, S. & Grmelová, N. 2021. Legal rights of private property owners vs. sustainability transitions?, Journal of Cleaner Production, 323.
• Kaarlenkaski, T. & A. Lonkila 2020. In Search of Invisible Cows: Collaboration, Resistance and Affection in Human-Animal Relationships on Contemporary Dairy Farms. Ethnologica Fennica, 28, 27–53.