Dr Jan Kunnas

  • European University Institute
  • Consultant, History
  • Finland

My co-authors include

Professor Les Oxley

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My Publications

Is a good Anthropocene possible?

  • The Anthropocene Review
  • August 2017
  • I argue that whether or how the Anthropocene continues matters more than when it began. Following Bai et al. I claim that, the true significance of the Anthropocene concept lays in how it can be us...

We Can Still Learn from History – A Tale of Trail-Blazers

  • Global Environment
  • June 2020
  • The ongoing sustainability revolution not only shares similarities with the quality movement of the 1970s and 1980s but is essentially a continuation of it. Similarities can be found in particular ...

Anthropocene event idea is empowering

  • Nature
  • October 2021

SDGs and Sustainable Regional Development

  • September 2021

We cannot condense our decision making on climate change to numerical calculations

  • January 2021

Britain’s wealth lies in its people

  • Scandinavian Economic History Review
  • July 2016

Who is responsible for climate change?

  • Scandinavian Economic History Review
  • May 2014

Can genuine savings predict future well-being?

  • Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
  • March 2014

Estimates of Britain’s comprehensive wealth 1760–2000

  • Oxford Review of Economic Policy
  • March 2014

Does Rawls Theory of Justice still matter on a warming planet?

  • Electronic Green Journal
  • February 2013

Suggestion for the Funding of Adaptation to Climate Change and Disaster Management Schemes

  • August 2012

How to finally reach a climate deal and settle our carbon debt!

  • Electronic Green Journal
  • March 2011

What caused the drop in Finlands sulphur dioxide emissions in late 20th century Finland?

  • Ecological Economics
  • May 2010

Does Rawls Theory of Justice fit in a warming world?

  • IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science
  • February 2009

Finlands emissions of carbon dioxide for the last two hundred years

  • Global Environment
  • January 2009

Production, exports and use of wood in protoindustry in Finland in the 19th century

  • Scandinavian Journal of History
  • September 2007

The Relationship Between Economic Growth and Air Pollution in Finland

  • Scandinavian Economic History Review
  • July 2007

Energy Consumption in Slash-and-Burn Cultivation and Burning Cultivation of Peatlands i...

  • Environment and History
  • November 2005

Slash-and-Burn Cultivation in Nineteenth-Century Finland and Twentieth-Century Southeas...

  • Environmental History
  • April 2002