Department of Strategic Environmental Analyses

prof. Mgr. Tatiana Kluvánková, PhD.

Head of the Department

Research Focus / Areas of Research

Department of Strategic Environmental Analysis (SEA), was established in 2012 under the Institute of Forest Ecology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAS). SEA has a Laboratory of Experimental Social Sciences (VEEL), established in 2007 as a product of co-operation with Professor Elinor Ostrom, the Nobel Prize winner in economics, and with the Centre for Behaviour, Institutions, and the Environment at Arizona State University. In 2019 it formed SlovakGlobe – a joint work space of SAS and the Slovak University of Technology, it concerns interdisciplinary research on management of global change mainly in following areas:

• strategic decision-making and statistical modelling in climate change and biodiversity protection;
• behavioural change in relation to sustainability;
• transformation and carbon neutral societies;
• social innovations as part of regional development in both marginalized and urban areas;
• transdisciplinary stakeholder participation with the aim to transfer social challenges from practice into research, according to the original methodology developed by SEA department.

Keywords

• Transdisciplinarity
• Social innovation
• Strategic decision-making
• Management of global change

Research Activities

• SlovakGlobe benefits from international projects and joint working teams, resulting in co-authoring publications in Science, MIT press, Ecological Economics.
• A young, dynamic team of five members with average age of 36, the SEA team includes a professor, an associate, an independent scientist, a postgraduate scholar and a PhD student.
• SEA regularly organizes international activities. Our members participate in teaching at two universities in Bratislava, and supervise Master and PhD students.
• We aim to develop incentive tools and experimental approaches to promote biodiversity protection and climate change mitigation, as well as promote social innovation in the regional development of both marginalized and urban areas. SEA can fulfil this objective thanks to rich international project collaboration and the laboratory of experimental social sciences (VEEL), led by SlovakGlobe. VEEL is the first laboratory of its kind in Slovakia. We also collaboration with CzechGlobe Academy of Sciences Czech Republic.
• We use our original methodology for transdisciplinary stakeholder participation in order to transfer social challenges from practice into research. Currently, this methodology is being.

Projects

International Projects

National Projects

Under the SlovakGlobe, SEA is dedicated to develop and test tools for mitigating and adapting to global change:

• we developed a methodology for monitoring the perception of climate change, based on the relationship between the concept of ecosystem services and the theory of common pool resources management.
• we created our own experiment design (behavioural experiment) to monitor the factors leading to behavioural change and long-term sustainability of forest management systems.
• we regularly test the conditions for long-term sustainability of forest management by behavioural experiments in selected forest areas and marginalized rural regions in the EU.
• we authored a typology of the dissemination of social innovations in marginalized rural areas (Preliminary Perspective).

Recent Publications (2020-21)

• Nijnik, M.; Kluvánková, T.; Melnykovych, M.; Nijnik, A.; Kopiy, S.; Brnkaľáková, S.; Sarkki, S.; Kopiy, L.; Fizyk, I.; Barlagne, C.; et al. (2021). An Institutional Analysis and Reconfiguration Framework for Sustainability Research on Post-Transition Forestry—A Focus on Ukraine. Sustainability 2021, 13, 4360. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13084360
• Primmer E., Orsi F., Varumo L., Krause T., Geneletti D., Brogaard S., Aukes E., Ciolli M., Kister J., Hernández-Morcillo, Kluvankova T., Loft L. M., Meyer C., Maier C., Schleyer C., Spacek M., Mann C. Mapping Europe’s institutional landscape for forest ecosystem service provision, innovations and governance
 In Ecosystem Services 47 (2021), p. 11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2020.101225
• BOWDITCH, E. – SANTOPUOLI, G. – BINDER, F. – DEL RIO, M. – LA PORTA,N. – KLUVÁNKOVÁ,T. – LESINSKI,J. – MOTTA, R. – PACH, M. – PANZACCHI, P. – PRETZSCH, H. – TEMPERLI,CH. – TONON, G. -SMITH,M. – VELIKOVA, V. – WEATHERALL,A. – TOGNETTI, R. What is climate-smart forestry? A definition from a multinational collaborative process focused on mountain regions of Europe. In Ecosystem Services, 2020, vol. 43, art. no. 101113. (2019: 6.330 – IF, Q1 – JCR, 2.672 – SJR, Q1 – SJR, karentované – CCC). (2020 – Current Contents). ISSN 2212-0416. Dostupné na: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2020.101113
• Maria Nijnik, Tatiana Kluvankova, Albert Nijnik, Serhiy Kopiy, Mariana Melnykovych Simo Sarkki Carla Barlagne, Stanislava Brnkalakova, Leonid Kopiy Ihor Fizyk and David Miller (2020): Is There a Scope for Social Innovation in Ukrainian Forestry? Sustainability 2020, 12, 9674; Impact Factor: 2.576 (2019), Q1doi:10.3390/su12229674
• Primmer E., Orsi F., Varumo L., Krause T., Geneletti D., Brogaard S., Aukes E., Ciolli M., Kister J.,Hernández-Morcillo, Kluvankova T., Loft L. M., Meyer C., MaierC., SchleyerC., Spacek M., Mann C. Mapping Europe’s institutional landscape for forest ecosystem service provision, innovations and governance In Ecosystem Services47 (2021), (2019: 6.330 – IF, Q1 – JCR, 2.672 – SJR, Q1 – SJR, karentované – CCC). (2020 – Current Contents). p. 11 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2020.101225
• Kluvankova, T.; Nijnik, M.; Spacek, M.; Sarkki, S.; Lukesch, R.; Perlik, M.; Melnykovych, M.; Valero, D.; Brnkalakova, S. Social innovation for sustainability transformation and its diverging development paths in marginalised rural areas. Sociol. Rural. (2021). Impact Factor: 2.54 (2019) Q1, doi: 10.1111/soru.12337 2021