Tero Toivanen

Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki

Based in

Finland
Europe

Tero Toivanen, PhD, is a postdoctoral researcher and core fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki. Toivanen has worked on the environmental history of nineteenth-century Finnish capitalism, the political economy of Finnish forestry, and the governance of low-carbon economic and industrial transformation. His current project examines the role of the far right in the climate crisis, with a particular focus on Finland. Toivanen is co-founder of the multidisciplinary BIOS Research Unit (established in 2015, www.bios.fi/en), which synthesises scientific knowledge on global environmental and resource pressures and examines their impact on the political economy of Finnish and European societies.