Profiles

Irmeli Mustalahti, Professor of Natural Resources Governance at University of Eastern Finland and Vice Chairman for ENO Schoolnet Association. She has a PhD in participatory forest practices and impacts (University of Copenhagen, Denmark). She is a chair of Responsive Natural Resources Governance-Research Group (RNRG). Her main research and teaching interests are long-term empirical research on interventions related to natural resources governance, environmental conflict resolution, and collaborative management of natural resources. Since 2015, she has participated in developing a course series called ‘Environmental collaboration and conflict resolution’. She has led the Academy of Finland funded projects, for example ‘Towards Responsive Governance in Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation? Comparative case study in Tanzania and Nepal’. Currently, she is among of the leadership of the multidisciplinary research project, ‘All youth want to rule their world, ALL-YOUTH’, a consortium funded by the Strategical Research Council of Finland. She is also a leader of MAKUTANO research project in Tanzania which aims to develop methodological and theoretical approaches for environmental collaboration and conflict resolution.