Teea Kortetmäki

Teea Kortetmäki
University of Jyväskylä | JYU · Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy

Ph.D.
Just transition; environmental ethics; planetary well-being; food ethics

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Introduction
I'm assistant professor at University of Jyväskylä, Soc Sci and Philosophy. My ongoing projects concern: - Environmental landscape ethics: a theory of cohabitability (PI, 2024-29) - Just transition: tackling inequalities on the way to a sustainable, healthy and climate-neutral food system (2019-25) - Paradigms of well-being and sustainability transformations (PI, 2024-28) - Philosophy of sustainability
Additional affiliations
September 2017 - August 2019
Tampere University
Position
  • PostDoc Position
Description
  • Research on sustainable food systems and environmental political theory Regional food system sustainability transitions Critical theory on human-nature relations
August 2014 - present
University of Jyväskylä
Position
  • Researcher

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Publications (65)
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This paper explores collaborative workshops conducted at the International Socially Engaged Art Symposium (ISEAS), concentrating on the convergence of art and science in the realm of food values and ethics. With 20 artists and scientists participating, ISEAS employed arts-based methods to investigate food-related themes within diverse communities....
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Justice in sustainability transitions requires states to design transition policies that ‘leave no‐one behind’. Emphasising fairness, however, may entail slowing or scaling down the impetus of sustainability transition. To examine this risk empirically, we analysed how stakeholders frame justice in deliberating policy measures needed to support jus...
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This book proposes a paradigm shift in how human and nonhuman well-being are perceived and approached. In response to years of accelerated decline in the health of ecosystems and their inhabitants, this edited collection presents planetary well-being as a new cross-disciplinary concept to foster global transformation towards a more equal and inclus...
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This special issue builds understanding of just transitions by looking at specific dynamics in food system transitions. The articles in the special issue apply a multi-dimensional understanding of justice, which stress that in addition to distributional matters, also recognition and procedural justice require attention in transitions. The current i...
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Climate change poses grave risks to food security, and mitigation and adaptation actions have so far been insufficient to lessen the risk of climate-induced violations of the right to food. Could safeguarding the right to food, then, justify some forms of geoengineering? This article examines geoengineering through the analytical lens of the right...
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The need to create more sustainable food systems calls for careful attention to justice in making the transition. However, to achieve a just transition and create policies to support the goal of developing sustainable food systems, we need more knowledge of the ways current policies tackle justice. This knowledge can reveal blind spots and developm...
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Addressing the global extent of the current biodiversity crisis requires engaging with the existence of multiple equally legitimate values, but also with diverse ethical perspectives underpinning conceptions of right and wrong actions. However, western monist positions have mostly explicitly or implicitly directed conservation strategies by definin...
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Stakeholder theory has grown into one of the most frequent approaches to organizational sustainability. Stakeholder research has provided considerable insight on organization–nature relations, and advanced approaches that consider the intrinsic value of nonhuman nature. However, nonhuman nature is typically approached as an ambiguous, unified entit...
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In this article, we propose a framework of principles and criteria for just transitions in food systems. Climate mitigation activities are urgently needed in food systems, but can have damaging social, environmental, economic, and health impacts. Consequently, food system transitions can cause significant side effects across and beyond food systems...
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Sosioekonomiset terveyserot ovat säilyneet Suomessa suurina. Väestön terveyden tiedetään olevan huonompi alemmissa kuin ylemmissä koulutusryhmissä. Merkittävänä terveyden ja hyvinvoinnin edistäjänä pidetään terveellistä ravitsemusta. Tämä tutkimus selvitti aikuisväestön elintarvikeryhmien ja ravintoaineiden saannin eroja sekä ravintoaineiden saanti...
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Low-carbon transitions in industrialised societies will have significant social, economic and environmental impacts, raising concerns of justice. Calls for urgent transitions evoke a question about the roles of different actors in advancing transitions and ensuring they are just. While the responsibilities for emission mitigation have been long dis...
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Information on dietary adequacy is needed to assess food and nutrition security in a modern society, especially in the transition towards climate-friendly food systems. In this study, differences in the nutritional adequacy of diets among Finnish adults were evaluated in population groups of different education, income and urbanisation levels. The...
Technical Report
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Yhteisellä planeetalla Suomen maakunnatkaan eivät ole suojassa globaalien ympäristökriisien, kuten ilmastonmuutoksen ja luontokadon, kielteisiltä suorilta ja välillisiltä vaikutuksilta. Alueilla tapahtuva ihmistoiminta myötävaikuttaa näiden kriisien voimistumiseen. Ympäristökriisit haastavat yhteiskunnallista kehitystä kokonaan uudella tavalla jo...
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Tensions between the well-being of present humans, future humans, and nonhuman nature manifest in social protests and political and academic debates over the future of Earth. The increasing consumption of natural resources no longer increases, let alone equalises, human well-being, but has led to the current ecological crisis and harms both human a...
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Climate change compels us to rethink the ethics of our dietary choices and has become an interesting issue for ethicists concerned about diets, including animal ethicists. The defenders of veganism have found that climate change provides a new reason to support their cause because many animal-based foods have high greenhouse gas emissions. The new...
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In this article, we address the social vulnerability of people to climate mitigation policies and contribute to assessing the social impacts of climate policies by introducing a matrix tool for conducting vulnerability assessments and participatory climate policy planning. The matrix serves as a methodological tool for identifying social groups in...
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Just transition is gaining increasing attention. The need to consider social justice in sustainability transitions is finally being acknowledged. Research on this issue has, to date, mainly concentrated on energy systems. In this paper, we examine how the elaboration of dietary transition widens the spectrum of justice questions in sustainability t...
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Tensions between the well-being of present humans, future humans, and nonhuman nature manifest in social protests and political and academic debates over the future of Earth. The increasing consumption of natural resources no longer increases, let alone equalises, human well-being, but has led to the current ecological crisis. While the crisis has...
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This article examines the interlinkages between food justice and climate change mitigation. The examination is carried out in a theoretical-conceptual level yet with reference to the actual claims for food justice. The basic relationship between food system activities and anthropogenic climate change is bidirectional: food system activities cause s...
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Reification is a concept of critical theory that denotes certain problematic, habitualised forms of objectification. In this article, I examine whether the concept can be applied in environmental philosophy and what value it has for environmental critical theory. I begin by introducing the concept and the two senses in which reification of the non-...
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Discussions about the concept of recognition and the applicability of contemporary recognition theory necessarily involve important questions concerning the phenomenon of misrecognition as well as the limits of recognition in general. In Chapter 14, Arto Laitinen and Teea Kortetmäki are interested in the possible natural basis and boundaries of soc...
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Ruokaoikeudenmukaisuus viittaa ruokajärjestelmän reiluuteen eli siihen, miten oikeudenmukaisesti ruoan tuotannon, prosessoinnin, kaupan ja kuluttamisen hyödyt ja haitat jakaantuvat ja miten yhdenvertainen mahdollisuus ihmisillä on riittävään ja kulttuurisesti hyväksyttävään ravitsemukseen. Ruokaoikeudenmukaisuuden diskurssissa on vallinnut oletus,...
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The chapter examines the connections between food justice and climate justice by using Iris Marion Young's notion of structural injustice.
Technical Report
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(Finnish) Osallistaminen ilmastopolitiikassa on Suomen Ilmastopaneelin selvityshankkeen loppuraportti. Hankkeessa tarkasteltiin osallistamisen ja osallisuuden edistämistä suomalaisen ilmastopolitiikan ja ilmastotoimien kontekstissa sekä ilmastotoimien hyvinvointi- ja terveysvaikutuksia sekä näiden vaikutusten arviointimahdollisuuksia.
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In this article, I apply the environmental or expanded capabilities approach to species and examine whether species as wholes can have capabilities and what are the implications if they can. The examination provides support for the claim that species as evolutionary groups can possess capabilities. They have integrity, which refers to the functioni...
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to consider the concepts of exposure, coping capacity and adaptive capacity as a multiple structure of vulnerability in order to distinguish and interpret short-term coping responses and long-term strategic responses to food system vulnerability. Design/methodology/approach This paper applies an abductive appro...
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This dissertation applies and develops the broad framework of environmental and ecological justice. It is a new relational approach to justice, whose elements have been introduced by David Schlosberg in his works on environmental and ecological justice. The present study provides a systematisation of the framework and applies it to contemporary env...
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The capabilities approach has attracted broad interest in environmental ethics. One very interesting application is the environmental or extended capabilities approach, which promotes the notion of environmental capabilities that contribute to the flourishing of nonhuman beings and ecological systems. The approach, however, lacks any account of the...
Conference Paper
How should one think about the sustainability of food systems from the viewpoint of food availability? What kind of food must there be available in future to allow stating that today’s activities have been sustainable? Some accounts of sustainability allow the substitution of natural capital by human capital within sustainability. Food is however v...
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During the last 20 years charity food aid – based on donated food and delivered by voluntary workers in food banks and bread lines – has become an established way of fixing the social safety net holes of the most vulnerable people in Finland. This not only proves the radical insufficiency of welfare services and social security networks but also di...
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This article proposes reframing the justice discourse in climate negotiations. In so doing, it makes two claims. First, global climate negotiations deserve to be addressed as an issue of justice on their own due to their peculiar characteristics. Second, a multidimensional theory of justice is superior to distributional theories for this task. To s...
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Food security is the major desired outcome of any food system, but its realization may be prevented by vulnerabilities in a food system. By shifting the focus of their vulnerability analysis from the discrete components of the food system to the food system as a whole, the authors of this article were able to develop a qualitative food system vulne...
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I argue in this article that a theory of broad ecological justice or the extended capabilities approach, an interesting approach in contemporary environmental ethics, shares many of its core ideas with deep ecology and Arne Næss's ecosophy T. The similarities between these approaches include the ambition to address the roots of environmental proble...
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Dimensions of the Finnish food security: a content analysis of food security in public documents There has been wide public debate about global food security over the decades. Academic research has mainly focused on developing countries, which are most affected by food insecurity. In this context, only a little attention has been paid to the situ...
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In this chapter, we will discuss the idea that social recognition requires natural resources, and examine its natural, ecological, or environmental aspects. We argue against a view, which would conceptualize social recognition (respect, esteem, trust etc) as conceptually and ontologically independent from its natural basis, which is captured nicely...
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Food security is the main policy objective of food systems. FAO (2013) defines food security as a situation when 'all people, at all times, have physical, social and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life'. Despite of the increasing importance of foo...
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Food system vulnerability is an emerging concept for food security policies and food supply chain management. Hence, measuring food system vulnerability is necessary for developing appropriate food security policies and managing food supply chain vulnerabilities. In this paper, we aim to clarify the development process of food system vulnerabili...
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One of the hardest questions in environmental philosophy is the debate between anthropocentric and ecocentric accounts of value. I argue that a great deal of the disagreement in this debate arises from a) misunderstanding of the concepts used in the debate and b) unfruitful reading of vaguely framed arguments. The conceptual and argumentative analy...
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In this paper, we argue that the classical conception concerning the relation between animals and humans in Western philosophy is anthropocentric. Notwithstanding the traditional outlook which has emphasized the substantial difference between animal and human intellect, we contend that this classical position has been overturned during the epistemo...

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