Mia Landauer

Biography

Mia Landauer is a guest research scholar jointly associated with the Systemic Risk and Resilience and Cooperation and Transformative Governance research groups of the IIASA Advancing Systems Analysis Program. She originally joined IIASA in September 2013 as a guest research scholar in the former Risk and Resilience (RISK) Program. From January 2016 to December 2020, she worked jointly with RISK and the Arctic Futures Initiative (AFI), first as an IIASA postdoctoral research scholar and then as a guest research scholar.

Landauer is a university researcher at the Arctic Centre of the University of Lapland in Finland. She holds a doctorate degree in Natural Resources and Life Sciences and a master's degree in Geography. Her research focuses on justice and ethics in the participation of Arctic local and indigenous communities in environmental governance. She is experienced in climate change adaptation research in different contexts, encompassing international climate policy, urban planning, nature-based tourism and outdoor recreation management, and Arctic traditional livelihoods.

She is currently working on an Arctic-related EU Horizon2020 project called Toward Just, Ethical, and Sustainable Arctic Economies, Environments, and Societies (JUSTNORTH), in which her research focuses on justice in participation and governance, especially related to multiple land use that affects indigenous and traditional livelihoods in Northern Finland.



Last update: 16 FEB 2022