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Helena Leino

Associate Professor (tenure track), Ympäristöpolitiikka

Fields of expertise

environmental policy, urban planning, sustainable urbanisation, complementary construction, public participation, land use planning conflicts, co-created knowledge production, experiments

Selected publications

Laine, Markus, Leino Helena, Santaoja Minna (2018) Building Citizens’ Trust in Urban Infill: a Dynamic Approach. Journal of Planning Education and Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/0739456X18817089

 Jokinen, Ari, Leino Helena, Bäcklund Pia, Laine Markus (2018) Strategic planning harnessing urban policy mobilities: The gradual development of local sustainability fix. Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning https://doi.org/10.1080/1523908X.2018.1454828.

Wallin Antti, Leino Helena, Jokinen Ari, Laine Markus, Tuomisaari Johanna, Bäcklund Pia (2018) A Polyphonic Story of Urban Densification. Urban Planning 3(3), 40-51.

Bäcklund Pia, Häikiö Liisa, Leino Helena, Kanninen Vesa. (2018). Bypassing publicity and transparency for getting things done: between informal and formal planning practices in Finland. Planning Practice & Research 33(3), 309-325.

Leino Helena, Santaoja Minna, Laine Markus. (2017). Researchers as knowledge brokers: translating knowledge or co-producing legitimacy? An urban infill case from Finland. International Planning Studies, 23:2, 119-129.

Leino, Helena & Ilari Karppi & Ari Jokinen (2017) It’s all about the birds! The irreversible transformation of place, Planning Theory 16:2, 133-149. 

 Leino, Helena (2013) The Locality of Boundary Practices. In: Mäntysalo, Raine, Balducci, Alessandro (eds.) Urban Planning as a Trading Zone. Urban and Landscape Perspectives, vol 13. Drodrecht: Springer, 111-124. 

Leino, Helena (2012) Boundary Interaction in Emerging Scenes: Two Participatory Planning Cases from Finland. Planning Theory and Practice 13 (3), 383–396. 

Leino Helena & Markus Laine (2012) Do matters of concern matter? Bringing issues back to participation. Planning Theory 11 (1), 89–103.