His passion is an interdisciplinary approach to environmental science. In his research, he examines links between environmental quality and life quality in society and how land use variation affects these links, study impact of climate change on communities, investigate people-nature relationships and application of environmental democracy.
Ruslan obtained his PhD in Environmental science at the University of Turku. His dissertation was focused on the interdisciplinary approach to the study impact of climate change on society. After the defense he worked at the Åbo Akademi University as a post-doctoral researcher. Ruslan continues active collaboration with The Sea Research group from Åbo Akademi.
Teaching
- GIS Project
- Sustainable development
- Environmental Outreach
Current project:
LES 2.0. Road to the environmental democracy through investigation of relationships with the environment
LES 2.0 is an interdisciplinary project aiming to link objective environmental data and subjective survey data on local and country scales. This link is planned to investigate in relation to the effects of the environment on the well-being of society and the socio-economic factors affecting these effects. In particular, one of the parts of LES 2.0 focuses on the political preferences/orientation of people and potential fluctuations in the role of nature for their life quality and the accuracy of people’s subjective assessments of nature. Therefore, the research team consists of wide expertise in both environmental and social sciences, and we combine ecological data, GIS data, and survey data in our approach.
Project partners: Åbo Akademi University, Pro Litore Association.