fi=Erillisteokset ja sarjat |en=Monographs and series|
https://www.utupub.fi:443/handle/10024/143699
2024-03-28T18:29:47ZFinland-China Food and Health Science Network
https://www.utupub.fi:443/handle/10024/176686
Finland-China Food and Health Science Network
2024-03-26T00:00:00ZTESTING URBAN RESILIENCE WITH IMMERSIVE CLA AND WHAT IF?. Three Cases: Rovaniemi, Kotka and Tripla
https://www.utupub.fi:443/handle/10024/176366
TESTING URBAN RESILIENCE WITH IMMERSIVE CLA AND WHAT IF?. Three Cases: Rovaniemi, Kotka and Tripla
Heinonen, Sirkka; Sivonen, Risto; Karjalainen, Joni; Taylor, Amos; Toivonen, Saija; Tähtinen, Lassi
The world is full of volatility, complexity, uncertainty and ambiguity (VUCA), nurturing rapid change and disruption with much potential for crises. Alone in this century, societies have been shaken by multiple crises. Futures studies can help imagining and envisioning sustainable post-crises worlds that are better for all living species. Crises should be counterbalanced by strengthening crisis awareness, crisis preparedness and crisis resilience as is our aim within the RESCUE project (Real Estate and Sustainable Crisis Management in Urban Environments). Testing and rehearsing crises via cognitive, multistakeholder foresight processes helps build futures preparedness and preventive stances. Futures literacy is expanded to embrace crisis awareness and preparedness as a key to robust futures resilience.
Constructing cities worldwide has direct impacts on nature, health, wellbeing and equality. Simultaneously, digitalisation is transforming the urban space profoundly. The sustainable twin transition of the green and the digital requires careful balancing. We should be addressing and modifying the built environment, both land and space, as a rescue mode in crises. Anticipatory governance can drive crisis preparedness and help determine the resilience of urban environments. In this experimental foresight exercise, we apply the metaphor constructing the future in our inquiry on the kinds of governance and regulations that would be needed for making cities and the built environment resilient. What policies would have to be changed; and how should they be framed, for them to become truly transformative? In addition, we look for potential barriers and incentives for promoting successful crisis preparedness, as well as suggestions for concrete policy actions and recommended practices that would promote actor involvement, equal power relations, and collaboration, and as a result enable community empowerment toward resilient urban environments. Methodologically we apply a rehearsing futures approach and use empirical data from three futures cliniques for testing and analysing possible direct and indirect impacts of a crisis. For this exercise the crisis chosen was total electronic blackout and for analysing it we applied the foresight method causal layered analysis (CLA). The data presented in this report was subsequently collected with stakeholders in three different urban cases: 1) Rovaniemi, 2) Kotka and 3) the Tripla complex in Helsinki.
2024-01-12T00:00:00ZCOOLEST STUDENT PAPERS AT FINLAND FUTURES RESEARCH CENTRE 2022–2023 - Tulevaisuuden tutkimuskeskuksen valittuja opiskelijatöitä 2022–2023
https://www.utupub.fi:443/handle/10024/176272
COOLEST STUDENT PAPERS AT FINLAND FUTURES RESEARCH CENTRE 2022–2023 - Tulevaisuuden tutkimuskeskuksen valittuja opiskelijatöitä 2022–2023
Heino, Hanna; Ahlqvist, Toni; Ahvenharju Sanna; Ferreira-Aulu, Marianna; Kaboli, Akhgar; Lehtiö, Kati; Puustinen, Sari; Pöllänen, Markus; Shaw, Morgan; Siivonen, Katriina; Taylor, Amos; Arvonen, Anne
We are proud to present a selection of our finest student papers from the academic year 2022–2023. The Coolest Student Papers publication has already been published since 2016 and it has shown our students’ capability to academic working and writing. The aim of this publication is both to give an example of a good student work to others and provide a publication forum for the students.
This issue covers courses from different study programs that are all coordinated by the Finland Futures Research Centre. It includes the international Master’s Degree Programme in Futures Studies, the interdisciplinary team work course of Sustainable Development Studies and courses organised by Finland Futures Academy (taught in Finnish). Each course forms its own section with a description of intended learning out-comes, an introduction by the teacher(s), followed by the papers.
The topics range from health data ownership and healthcare scenarios to Disaggregative Delphi Approach and from method comparison to the frameworks of social sustainability and forest utilisation. All the selected papers present good quality academic thinking and writing.
I wish you get inspired while reading!; ---
Haluamme jälleen esitellä valikoiman parhaita tulevaisuudentutkimuksen opiskelijatöitä viime lukuvuodelta 2022–2023. Parhaimpia opiskelijatöitä on esitelty jo vuodesta 2016 alkaen Coolest Student Papers -julkaisussa, joka osoittaa opiskelijoidemme kyvyt akateemiseen kirjoittamiseen ja työskentelyyn. Tämän julkaisun tarkoituksena on sekä antaa esimerkkejä hyvistä opiskelijatöistä että luoda opiskelijoille julkaisualusta.
Tässä julkaisussa on esillä töitä Tulevaisuuden tutkimuskeskuksen koordinoimien opinto-ohjelmien kursseilta. Näitä opintokokonaisuuksia ovat tulevaisuudentutkimuksen maisteriohjelma ja kestävän kehityksen sekä Tulevaisuudentutkimuksen Verkostoakatemian opinto-ohjelmat. Jokainen kurssi kuvataan erikseen ja sen alla on opettajan luonnehdinta työstä ennen varsinaista opiskelijatyötä.
Töiden aiheet vaihtelevat terveystietojen omistajuuden ja terveydenhuollon skenaarioista Delfoi menetelmään sekä menetelmien vertailusta ja sosiaalisen kestävyyden viitekehyksien tarkastelusta aina metsien käyttöön. Kaikki julkaisuun valitut työt edustavat laadukasta akateemista pohdintaa ja kirjoittamista.
Inspiroivia lukuhetkiä!
2023-12-19T00:00:00ZDeclining Fitness Levels are a Challenge to Well-Being in Finland – effective actions to increase physical activity and reverse the downward spiral of fitness
https://www.utupub.fi:443/handle/10024/176225
Declining Fitness Levels are a Challenge to Well-Being in Finland – effective actions to increase physical activity and reverse the downward spiral of fitness
Vasankari, Tommi; Tapio, Petri; Ahokas, Ira; Kokko, Sami; Helminen, Ville; Heikinheimo, Vuokko; Hurmerinta, Leila; Lyytimäki, Jari
The physical functional capacity of Finns has been declining for decades:
• The number of young men entering military service with poor physical fitness has increased eightfold
• The number of men with poor muscle fitness has increased manifold
• The average weight of new recruits has increased by 8 kg
• The results of the MOVE! measurements of schoolchildren show the same alarming trend also in schoolchildren.
As a result of the prolonged negative trend described above, the physical fitness of Finns of working age will continue to deteriorate significantly also in the coming decades. By 2040, according to a very conservative forecast, only very few people aged 50 or over in Finland will be in good physical fitness. This vicious cycle will lead to an increasing incidence of non-communicable diseases (such as type 2 diabetes, depression, cardiovascular diseases, musculoskeletal diseases, etc.). Being ill leads to increased sickness absences, earlier disability, and lower labour productivity. Unless this negative trend can be reversed, we will not be able to extend working life, the economic backbone of the state, municipalities, and cities will be broken, and the base of the national defence (the reserve army) will not hold up. The steady decline in fitness and increase in obesity will cause problems across all sectors of government.
No amount of economic growth will be enough if the downward spiral of the physical functional capacity and fitness of working-age Finns is not reversed. We need multiple, simultaneous, effective measures across all sectors, at the national as well as the local level. These simultaneous, multi-sectoral actions require strong leadership and coordination between different sectors. Therefore, at the national level, the Prime Minister's Office and, at the local level, the municipal or city management group, are capable actors to lead these simultaneous measures that are needed across sectors of government. Effective measures are needed for those in the working life today who are struggling with their physical functional capacity, as well as to ensure the functional capacity of the workforce in the future.
This policy brief is the second in its series from the Healthy Lifestyles to Boost Sustainable Growth (STYLE) project, combining interdisciplinary knowledge on trends in transport and physical activity. Interpreting them through infrastructure and service designs and changing lifestyles, we generate insight on novel business opportunities and intervention models that induce physical activity. This provides innovative pathways towards current national policy targets and promotion of the societal vision. The project is funded by the Strategic Research Council at the Academy of Finland. Read more: www.styletutkimus.fi/en
2023-12-13T00:00:00Z