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Professor of environmental policy
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Teaches the following courses: Introduction to Environmental Policy, Theoretical Approaches to Environmental Policy, Current Research in Environmental Policy, Dynamic Thinking: Advanced Course on Research Methodology, Research Seminar for Master`s Thesis, PhD Seminar.
Yrjö Haila joined the staff of the department as a professor of environmental policy in the autumn of 1995. He graduated from the University of Helsinki with a major in ecological zoology; theoretical philosophy was the main secondary subject in his PhD studies. During his studies he worked as an observer at ornithological banding stations on Baltic islands, as a fisherman and as a free lance journalist and made inventories of green areas for the city of Helsinki and regional planning authorities in the County of Uusimaa. After graduation he worked as the general secretary of the Finnish Union of Scientists and Scholars, lecturer of zoology, and held the posts of junior and senior research fellow with the Academy of Finland, originally at the department of zoology, University of Helsinki, and in 1993-95 at the Satakunta Environmental Research Centre, Pori (University of Turku). He defended his doctoral thesis Ecology of Island Colonization by Northern Land Birds: a Quantitative Approach in 1983 (ecological zoology, University of Helsinki).
Haila, Yrjö. Enacting Landscape Design: from Specific Cases to General Principles. Teoksessa: D. Lindenmayer & R. Hobbs (toim.), Managing and Designing Landscapes for Conservation: Moving from Perspectives to Principles. Blackwell, NY, 22-34.
Haila, Yrjö, Maria Kousis, Ari Jokinen, Nina Nygren & Katerina Psarikidou: Building Trust through Public Participation: Learning from Conflicts over the Implementation of the Habitats Directive PAGANINI Work-package 4, final report; available at: http://www.univie.ac.at/LSG/paganini/.
Haila, Yrjö. Saving Venice? FRAMEWORK, The Finnish Art Review 7/ June'07, 38-40.
Haila, Yrjö & Chuck Dyke (eds). How Nature Speaks. The Dynamics of the Human Ecological Condition. Duke University Press, Durham, NC.
Haila, Yrjö & Chuck Dyke. What to say about nature's "speech"? In: Haila, Yrjö & Chuck Dyke (eds). How Nature Speaks. The Dynamics of the Human Ecological Condition. Duke University Press, Durham, NC: 1-48.
Haila, Yrjö: Maiseman todellistumisesta./ On the Enactment of Landscape. Teoksessa: / In: Aarnio, Eija & Marja Sakari (toim. / eds) Maisema Kiasman kokoelmissa / Landscape in Kiasma's Collections. Nykytaiteen museon julkaisuja 101 / A Museum of Contemporary Art Publication 101, Helsinki.
Haila, Yrjö. War and the Environment Framework, the Finnish Art Magazine 4(2005), 24-27.
Yrjö Haila: Making the Biodiversity Crisis Tractable: A Process Perspective. In: Markku Oksanen & Juhani Pietarinen (eds), Philosophy of Biodiversity, 54-88. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Protection of Nature, Politics of Nature: Setting Priorities through Public Deliberation in the Era of Comprehensive Conservation (2008-2011; funding from the Finnish Academy)
