GEOGRAPHY

TUOMO ALHOJÄRVI

FoR PostcAPItALIst sPAce AnD econoMY stUDIes: InHeRItInG FUtURes oF

Social and ecological unravelling presents an unprecedented challenge for thinking and practising liveable economies. Postcapitalism has gained attention as an invitation to amplify existing alternatives to systemic scale. This study resists such temptations of the affirmative in order to ask how restrictive and counterproductive burdens are carried along in emancipatory thought and practice, and how their continuous negotiation might have to redefine postcapitalism itself.

Geographical Society of Northern Finland • Nordia Geographical Publications 50:2 • ISBN 978-952-62-2868-6 • ISSN 1238-2086 • Soft • 230 pp. • 2021 • EUR 32

MARJA LINDHOLM

sPAtIAL AnD teMPoRAL tRenDs In DIFFeRent DIMensIons oF MAcRoPHYte BIoDIVeRsItY In BoReAL LAKes

This thesis studies temporal and spatial biodiversity patterns of vascular aquatic macrophyte communities in small boreal lakes. The focus is on beta diversity-environment relationships and different dimensions of biodiversity, with special attention to functional features. This thesis is based on three separate case studies that all have utilised temporal presence-absence data of vascular aquatic macrophytes from 27-28 lakes from the 1940s to the 2010s.

Geographical Society of Northern Finland • Nordia Geographical Publications 50:1 • ISBN 978-952-62-2855-6 • ISSN 1238-2086 • Soft • 157 pp. • 2021 • EUR 44

ALIX VARNAJOT RetHInKInG ARctIc toURIsM: toURIsts’ PRActIces AnD PeRcePtIons oF tHe ARctIc In RoVAnIeMI

What is ‘Arctic’ in ‘Arctic tourism’? What makes the distinction between ‘Arctic tourism’ and ‘tourism in the Arctic’? Can we set and designate boundaries for Arctic tourism and can we find a consensus for its definition? This study explores these questions by investigating tourists’ practices and representations of the Arctic at the moment of crossing the Arctic Circle in Rovaniemi.

Geographical Society of Northern Finland • Nordia Geographical Publications 49:4 • ISBN 978-952-62-2691-0 • ISSN 1238-2086 • Soft • 108 pp. • 2020 • EUR 29

TERHI ALA-HULKKO InteGRAtInG AccessIBILItY AnALYsIs In seRVIce AnD DIsseRVIce MAPPInG ecosYsteM

Ecosystems support human existence and well-being through supply of services such as food, materials and energy flows, and by opportunities for cultural experiences. In this thesis, the transfer of services or disservices from ecosystems to people across an area was addressed using the concept of spatial accessibility, which determines how easily a location can be reached from another location or the potential for reaching geographically distributed opportunities.

Geographical Society of Northern Finland • Nordia Geographical Publications 49:3 • ISBN 978-952-62-2689-7 • ISSN 1238-2086 • Soft • 61 pp. • 2020 • EUR 29

VESA VÄÄTÄNEN

PoLItIcAL GeoGRAPHIes oF tHe ´cHAnGInG´ ARctIc: PeRsPectIVes on tHe InteRFAce BetWeen PoLItIcs AnD tHe ReGIon As A PRocess

During the past few decades, the Arctic has become increasingly understood as a changing region. This change incorporates issue areas from climatic and environmental change to economic, political and social change. This thesis seeks to analyze how the understanding of the Arctic as a changing region contributes to different political and spatial dynamics, which are approached empirically by a focus on the Arctic strategies and policies of Finland, France, Japan and Alaska.

Geographical Society of Northern Finland • Nordia Geographical Publications 49:2 • ISBN 978-952-62-2649-1 • ISSN 1238-2086 • Soft • 105 pp. • 2020 • EUR 31

ED. OLLI KARJALAINEN stAtIstIcAL MoDeLLInG oF cIRcUMPoLAR PeRMAFRost

Thermal and geomorphic sensitivities to climate change and societal implications

Perennially frozen ground, permafrost, governs complex geo- and ecosystems in the Arctic. Millions of people reside on the frozen ground that has historically supported the integrity of their cities and transportation infrastructure. Permafrost, however, is not permanent but sensitive to the ongoing climate change. This thesis examines the contemporary characteristics of the Northern Hemisphere permafrost and assesses its sensitivities to 21st-century climate change.

Geographical Society of Northern Finland • Nordia Geographical Publications 49:1 • ISBN 978-952-62-2540-1 • ISSN 1238-2086 • Soft • 61 pp. • 2020 • EUR 31

ED. VILLE KELLOKUMPU AND AAPO LUNDEN nGP YeARBooK 2020

Political Ecologies of Inertia

Yearbook 2020 includes i.a. articles: Carlos Tornel, Petro-populism and infrastructural energy landscapes: The case of Mexico’s Dos Bocas Refinery; Marika Kettunen, “We need to make our voices heard”: Claiming space for young people’s everyday environmental politics in northern Finland; Ruiying Liu, Strategies for sustainability in shrinking cities: frames, rationales and goals for a development path change; Keijo Lakkala, Utopianism in the Age of Capitalocene.

Geographical Society of Northern Finland • Nordia Geographical Publications 49:5 • ISBN 978-952-62-2884-0 • ISSN 1238-2086 • Soft • 111 pp. • 2021 • EUR 26

ED. HEIKKI SIRVIÖ nGP YeARBooK 2019

Energy and Nomos - Spatial (Dis)Order and (Post)Fossil Times

Yearbook 2019 includes i.a. articles: Heikki Sirviö, Introduction to Energy and Nomos theme issue - Energetic underpinnings of the legal-political order and its transformation; Simo Sarkki, Contested emergency: Five gaming strategies between environmental and economic science-policy-society coalitions; Teemu Suorsa, Energy, Experience, and Educational Psychology: Changing practices in and beyond Fossil Capitalism.

Geographical Society of Northern Finland • Nordia Geographical Publications 48:6 • ISBN 978-952-62-2568-5 • ISSN 1238-2086 • Soft • 90 pp. • 2020 • EUR 34