Liisa Varumo is an environmental policy researcher at the Finnish Environment Institute. Her work focuses on questions of social acceptance and environmental justice of market-based conservation, particularly biodiversity offsetting. Her recent studies have looked at how the recognition justice of Indigenous Peoples and local communities is promoted or hindered in offsetting practices related to mining in Northern Finland and Colombia. She has also worked on experimenting and evaluating different approaches to societal engagement on local and European scales for more legitimate EU-level decision-making in biodiversity policy.
