10th Partner Presentation (UTU)

We would like to introduce the partners involved in the LostToClimate Research Project. The 10^th  partner to be presented is the University of Turku.

🏛 Founded in 1920, the University of Turku (UTU) is one of Finland’s leading multidisciplinary universities, located in the historic city of Turku. With over 22,000 students and staff, UTU is a vibrant academic community committed to internationalisation, research excellence, and societal impact.

🌿 The Sustainable Landscape Systems Research Group at UTU is a key contributor to the LostToClimate project. The group integrates social, ecological, and technological domains to study human–nature interactions in multifunctional landscapes.

🔗 Role in LostToClimate: The group plays a central role in mapping and understanding non-economic losses—such as impact on cultural heritage, language, and identity—caused by climate change in the Sub-Arctic region of Finnish Lapland. Through ethnographic and participatory mapping methods, they collaborate with local communities to co-create knowledge and support just adaptation strategies. Their work exemplifies the project’s commitment to transdisciplinary, inclusive, and place-based approaches to climate resilience.

The Finnish team in LostToClimate consists of Nora Fagerholm and Lauri Hooli.

👤 Nora Fagerholm – Researcher Profile

Nora leads the Sustainable Landscape Systems Research Group at the University of Turku. Her work focuses on human–nature interactions, participatory mapping, and climate resilience in landscapes. With expertise in geospatial methods and community engagement, she plays a key role in LostToClimate by exploring non-economic losses and supporting just adaptation strategies in vulnerable regions.

👤 Lauri Hooli – Researcher Profile

Lauri is a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography with deep expertise in socio-environmental processes in the Sub-Arctic regions, drawing on his origins in Finnish Lapland. He has over two decades of experience in community engagement and conducting ethnographic research with Indigenous and local communities across the Arctic and southern Africa.