Science in Biodiversity Politics

Research group:

Esa Väliverronen, researcher, project leader

Iina Hellsten, researcher

1997-2000, funded by the Academy of Finland

Focus:

The ‘social construction’ of biodiversity as a scientific, administrative and political concept; the role of metaphors and visual images in communicating science

Data:

Scientific papers, policy documents, newspapers

Publications:

Seppänen, Janne & Esa Väliverronen. Visualizing Biodiversity: The role of photographs in environmental discourse. Science as Culture 12 (2003). 59-85.

Väliverronen, Esa & Iina Hellsten. From ”Burning Library” to ”Green Medicine”. The Role of Metaphors in Communicating Biodiversity. Science Communication 24(2002), 229-245.

Väliverronen, Esa. Popularisers, Interpreters, Advocates, Managers and Critics. Framing Science and Scientists in the Media. Nordicom Review 22 (2001):2,39-48.

Väliverronen, Esa. Biodiversity and the power of metaphor in environmental discourse. Science Studies 11 (1998):1.

Väliverronen, Esa. Medierna som arena för miljöpolitik. Nordicom-Information 1-2/ 1988,81-86.

Väliverronen, Esa & Iina Hellsten. Biodiversiteetti mediassa: sukupuuton uhkasta kestävään kehitykseen. Tiedotustutkimus 23 (2000): 2 s. 4-19.

Lehtikuvan luonto. Kuvan ja tekstin suhteista ympäristödiskurssissa (with Janne Seppänen). Sosiologia 37 (2000): 4.

Miettinen, Reijo & Esa Väliverronen. In science and technology we trust: on the public understanding of science in Finland. In Reijo Miettinen ed. Proceedings of the UK-Nordic co-operative seminar Biotechnology and Public Understanding of Science. The Academy of Finland, Helsinki, 1999.

Väliverronen, Esa. From idea to ideology: a story of biodiversity. Book review. Science, Technology & Human Values 24 (1999):3.