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Senja Laakso
Researcher at University of Helsinki
Publications - 55
Citations - 691
Senja Laakso is an academic researcher from University of Helsinki. The author has contributed to research in topics: Consumption (economics) & Sustainability. The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 51 publications receiving 435 citations.
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Moving beyond disruptive innovation: A review of disruption in sustainability transitions
TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify four non-technical dimensions of disruption, i.e., markets and business models, regulations and policy, and actors and networks, and provide a new definition of disruption in sociotechnical transitions with focus on both speed and magnitude of change.
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Giving up cars – The impact of a mobility experiment on carbon emissions and everyday routines
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focused on an experiment during which eleven participants gave up ownership of their cars, and in return, received free travel cards to local buses for six months, and analyzed the impact of the experiment on carbon emissions of the participants' everyday mobility.
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Dynamics of experimental governance: A meta-study of functions and uses of climate governance experiments
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conducted a meta-study of 25 articles on experimental climate governance and built a "triangle model of experimental governance" that proposes both vertical and horizontal dynamics within and between different functions and uses of experiments.
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Material Footprint of Low-Income Households in Finland—Consequences for the Sustainability Debate
TL;DR: In this article, the authors assess the material footprints of households living on a minimum amount of social benefits in Finland and discuss the consequences in terms of ecological and social sustainability, and find that the amount of resources used by most of the households studied here is still at least double that required for ecological sustainability.
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Challenging social norms to recraft practices: a living lab approach to reducing household energy use in eight european countries
Marlyne Sahakian,Henrike Rau,Eoin Grealis,Laurence Godin,Grégoire Wallenborn,Julia Backhaus,Freja Friis,Audley Genus,Gary Goggins,Eimear Heaslip,Eva Heiskanen,Marfuga Iskandarova,Charlotte Louise Jensen,Senja Laakso,Annika Musch,Christian Scholl,Edina Vadovics,Kristóf Vadovics,Véronique Vasseur,Frances Fahy +19 more
TL;DR: The ENERGISE project as mentioned in this paper was the first large-scale European effort to reduce household energy use through a change initiative that adopted a "living lab" approach informed by social practice theory.