Ari Aukusti Lehtinen Author & Editor

Ari Aukusti Lehtinen is Professor of Geography at the University of Joensuu in eastern Finland. Lehtinen has specialized in Northern European issues and the Greenbelt communities since the 1980s. He is the author of Northern Natures (1991), The Fall of the Forest Villages: Ecological and Cultural Conflicts in the Russian Taiga (1993), editor of Politics of Forests (2003), and numerous scholarly articles on issues such as environmental justice and biopolitical empowerment.