Marja Helena Sivonen

Researcher

Doctoral Researcher, Sociology, Tampere University
M.Soc.Sci, Sociology, Tampere University

Contact details

marja.sivonen[at]syke.fi
+358 295 251 012

Finnish Environment Institute (Syke)
Climate solutions
Policies and Risks
Latokartanonkaari 11
00790 Helsinki

Twitter: @marjahelena3

Research topics

• power and governance and discourse in policymaking
• interplay between energy policy and national security and defence policies
• energy transitions
• just transitions in energy sector
• Arctic cooperation and national and transnational governance in the European Arctic
• the authority of science in policymaking
• qualitative research methods

Research projects

• IDEALE Interplay between National Defence and Low-Carbon Energy Policies: a Sustainability Transitions Perspective, 2019-2024 (Academy of Finland)

• Kohti puhdasta energiajärjestelmää - REPower-CEST:  Energiaturvallisuus ja oikeudenmukaisuus

Past projects:

• CAScading Climate risks: towards ADaptive and resilient European Societies (CASCADES), 2019-2023 (European Comission, H2020)
• Justice in climate policy, 2021-2022 (Finnish Climate Panel)

Publications

• Sivonen, M. H., and Kivimaa, P. 2024. ‘Securitization of Energy Transitions in Estonia, Finland, and Norway’. International Political Sociology. https://doi.org/10.1093/ips/olae017.

• Kivimaa, P., Hildén, M., Carter, T.R., Mosoni, C., Pitzén, S. and Sivonen, M.H. (2024). Evaluating Policy Coherence and Integration for Adaptation: The Case of EU Policies and Arctic Cross-Border Climate Change Impacts. Climate Policy, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2024.2337168.

• Sivonen, M.H. & Kivimaa, P. 2023. Politics in the energy-security nexus: an epistemic governance approach to the zero-carbon energy transition in Finland, Estonia, and Norway, Environmental Sociology.

• Kivimaa, P., Sivonen, M.H. 2023. ‘How Will Renewables Expansion and Hydrocarbon Decline Impact Security? Analysis from a Socio-Technical Transitions Perspective’. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions 48 (September): 100744. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2023.100744.

• Sivonen, M. H., & Syväterä, J. (2022). Formal commitments versus actual practices? Narratives as tools of epistemic governance in the debate over Finnish forestry. Acta Sociologica, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/00016993221099618.

• Kivimaa, P., Sivonen, M.H. (2021). Interplay between low-carbon energy transitions and national security: An analysis of policy integration and coherence in Estonia, Finland and Scotland. Energy Research & Social Science 75: 102024.

Databases

• Marja Helena Sivonen in Orcid
• LinkedIn