Biography
My research supports healthier ecosystems and more fair, adaptive human societies by making complex systems actionable and easier to understand. I am especially interested in studying the complexity of interactions between humans and the environment. My main aim is to enhance the resilience and sustainability of natural resource systems.
Studying complex systems deepens our understanding of the dynamics of change in ecosystems and social-ecological systems (humans as part of nature). In essence, I ask how systems change, adapt, or tip into something entirely new. Or why they don't.
My core areas of expertise include:
• Complex adaptive systems and systems thinking
• Natural resource management
• Social-ecological systems / human-environment interactions
• Resilience, tipping points, and critical transitions / transformations
• Sustainability
• Network science, agent-based modelling
• Environmental change and adaptation
• Interdisciplinary research
I hold a PhD in Natural Resource Management (Stockholm Resilience Centre), a Title of Docent in Environmental Science (University of Jyväskylä), and MSc in Physical Geography, with biology as the minor (Stockholm University).
I lead the Human-Environment Complexity Lab, a multidisciplinary research group focusing on complex systems perspective on environmental and sustainability challenges. I'm also a member of Finland's IPCC Working Group.
Sounds interesting? Read more about my and the group's research!
https://www.jyu.fi/en/research-groups/human-environment-complexity-lab
www.yletyinenlab.com
