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Sustainability transition in food packaging – concepts, methods and novel practices. Springer. Julkaistaan 2025.

Kirja sisältää seuraavat Package-Heroes-tutkijoiden kirjoittamat luvut:

• Introduction: Navigating the Sustainability Transition in Food Packaging: Challenges, Policies and Interdisciplinary Pathways (Maria Åkerman, Henri Hakala, Ali Harlin, Ilkka Leinonen, Henna Sundqvist, Nina Tynkkynen and Vilja Varho)
• Sustainability trade-offs in food packaging: introducing the holistic and functional sustainability perspective (Tynkkynen et al.)
• The Sustainability Transition in Food Packaging: Landscape Pressures leading to Intra- and Inter-Industry Dynamics (Bor et al.)
• Change in the making: Identifying multi-level barriers and enablers in the transition towards sustainable food packaging (O’Shea et al.)
• Addressing consumer perspectives on sustainable food packaging: Insights from the research literature (Sonck-Rautio et al.)
• The circular frontrunners’ changing practices: What do food packaging manufacturers do to accommodate circular economy?  (Bolund Nielsen)
• Opportunity confidence for sustainable packaging  (Snellman et al.)
• Towards more harmonised methodology to compare environmental sustainability of packaging  (Katajajuuri et al.)
• Future material solutions (Harlin)
• Promoting sustainable development by packaging manufacturers across the regulatory environments of EU and the USA (Albats & Pesonen)
• Potential and barriers for transformative innovation policies in tackling sustainability issues of food packaging (Pihlajamaa & Åkerman)

Tieteelliset artikkelit

Re‐storying the Business, Innovation and Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Concepts: The Model‐Narrative Review Method.
Kirjoittajat hankkeesta: Henri Hakala & Gregory O’Shea (työpaketti 2)
International journal of Management, 2019

The buzz before business: a design science study of a sustainable entrepreneurial ecosystem.
Kirjoittajat hankkeesta: Gregory O’Shea & Henri Hakala (työpaketti 2)
Small Business Economies, 2019

The Dilemma of Organization in Social Movement Initiatives. In: G. Ahrne & N. Brunsson (Eds.). Organization outside Organizations: The Abundance of Partial Organization in Social Life.pp. 293-
Kirjoittaja hankkeesta: Sanne Bor (työpaketti 2)
Cambridge University Press, 2019

Review on polymers applied in paper making in respect of plastic definition 2020
Harlin, Ali.
VTT, 2020.

A partial organization approach to the dynamics of social order in social movement organizing.
Kirjoittaja hankkeesta: Sanne Bor (työpaketti 2)
Current Sociology, 2020.

Food packaging atlas of a supermarket to identify replaceable and replace worthy plastic (pro gradu -tutkielma)
Tekijä: Taina Lahtinen (työpaketti 4)
Julkaistu: 11/2020, Helsingin yliopisto, Maatalous-metsätieteellinen tiedekunta

To Buy Green or Not to Buy Green: Do Structural Dependencies Block Ecological Responsiveness?
Kirjoittaja hankkeesta: Henri Hakala (työpaketti 2)
Journal of Management, 2021

Elintarvikepakkaaminen muuttaa muotoaan.
Viitanen J., Kataja K., Mutanen A., Viitala E.-J., Åkerman M., Lahtinen T., Silvenius F., Forssen A.
Metsätieteen aikakauskirja vuosikerta 2021 (artikkeli id 10511)

Sustainability governance and contested plastic food packaging – An integrative review.
Sundqvist-Andberg, Henna and Åkerman, Maria.
Journal of Cleaner Production. Volume 306, 15 July 2021, 127111

The circular water economy and the ‘seven C’s’.
O’Shea, G., Luoto, S., Bor, S., Hakala, H., & Nielsen, I.B. (2021).
In: S. Jakobsen, T. Lauvås, F. Quatraro, E. Rasmussen, M. Steinmo (Eds.). Research Handbook of Innovation for a Circular Economy (pp.133-143). Edward Elgar.

Power and responsibility in transition to sustainable food packaging
Kirsi Sonck-Rautio, Sanne Bor, Greg O’Shea, Nina Tynkkynen, Vilja Varho, Maria Åkerman.
In: V. Pal (ed.), Social and Cultural Aspects of Circular Economy, Routledge.

Collaborative governance as a means of navigating the uncertainties of sustainability transformations: The case of Finnish food packaging.
Sundqvist-Andberg, H. & Åkerman, M. (2022).
Ecological Economics. 197, 107455.

Exploring visions and vision clusters of sustainable food packaging – The case of Finland
Titta Tapiola, Vilja Varho, Katriina Soini (2023).
Futures, volume 149.

Consumer meaning-making of packaging functions for sustainable food packaging–Insights from qualitative research in Finland.
Sonck-Rautio, Kirsi; Lahtinen, Taina & Nina Tynkkynen (2024)
Current Research in Environmental Sustainability, 7, 100259.

Creating conditions for sustainability transformation through transformative governance – The case of plastic food packaging in Finland.
Sundqvist, H. and Åkerman, M. (2024)
Journal of Cleaner Production, 434, 140296.

From niche support to system building – Perceptions of the transformation potential of policy measures on packaging reuse.
Sundqvist, H., Åkerman, M., Petänen, P., Mouazan, E. and Lahtinen, J. (2024)
Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 52, 100896.

Mapping Of The Potential To Substitute Plastic In Food Packaging In Finnish Supermarkets.
Lahtinen, T., Kataja, K., Viitanen, J., Kumar, V., Lahtinen, J., & Harlin, A. (2024).
Journal of Applied Packaging Research, 16(1), Article 4.

Life-cycle assessment of reusable plastic food packaging
Yadav, P., Silvenius, F., Katajajuuri, J-M., Leinonen, I. (2024)
Journal of Cleaner Production, Volume 448, 141529

Value added and employment effects in Finland when wood fibre is substituted for plastic in food packaging – a case study.
Lahtinen, T., Viitanen, J., Mutanen, A., & Lintunen, J. (2025).
Trees, Forests and People, 19, Article 100741.

Posterit

Ruokapakkaamisen visiot (WP1)
Businesses’ pathfinding towards sustainable food packaging (WP2)
Netnography on online consumer panel (WP3)
Environmental benefits of reusable food packaging (WP4)
Päättäjäsuositukset: Kohti kestävää ruokapakkaamista (WP5)

Muut julkaisut

Tilannekuvaraportti ruokapakkaamisesta (koottu hankkeen alussa, maaliskuussa 2019)

Review on polymers applied in paper making in respect of plastic definition.
Kirjoittaja: Ali Harlin, VTT
Julkaistu 16.6.2020.

Elintarvikepakkaaminen muuttaa muotoaan
Kirjoittajat hankkeesta: Jari Viitanen, Kirsi Kataja, Antti Mutanen, Esa-Jussi Viitala, Maria Åkerman, Taina Lahtinen, Frans Silvenius, Anna Forssen (työpaketit 4 & 5)
Metsätieteen aikakauskirja, 2021

Koronapandemian vaikutukset elintarvikepakkaamiseen – kuluttajan näkökulma
Kirjoittajat: Nina Tynkkynen, Johan Malmberg & Kirsi Sonck-Rautio, Åbo Akademi (työpaketti 3)
Agile Publishing, 2021
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