Miina Porkka
Postdoctoral Researcher
T213 Built Environment
Postdoctoral Researcher
The overall aim of my research is to understand the role of freshwater in the Earth system and the well-being of societies and to provide knowledge that could help minimise the impacts of human actions on these life-supporting functions of water.
My main focus is currently on assessing human-driven changes in the global water cycle. Under the ERC-funded SOS.aquaterra project, I study freshwater change in the context of the global food system, with the aim to comprehensively define local-to-global safe operating spaces for meeting future food demand. Over the past few years, I have been involved in the reconceptualisation of the Planetary Boundary for freshwater change.
I obtained my doctorate in December 2016 with the Water and Development Research Group at Aalto University. My dissertation explored the implications of water scarcity and agricultural trade for global food availability in the 20th century. During my doctoral research, I was also involved in a number of other projects and collaborations on global water and food issues, including studies on water scarcity, environmental footprints of food waste and diet scenarios, mapping of global irrigation areas, and the water-energy-food nexus.
Full researcher profile
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Contact information
Email
[email protected]
Areas of expertise
Water security, Water resilience, Food systems, Food security, Global trade
Research groups
- Water and Environmental Eng., Postdoctoral Researcher
Publications
Earth beyond six of nine planetary boundaries
Katherine Richardson, Will Steffen, Wolfgang Lucht, Jørgen Bendtsen, Sarah E. Cornell, Jonathan F. Donges, Markus Drüke, Ingo Fetzer, Govindasamy Bala, Werner von Bloh, Georg Feulner, Stephanie Fiedler, Dieter Gerten, Tom Gleeson, Matthias Hofmann, Willem Huiskamp, Matti Kummu, Chinchu Mohan, David Nogués-Bravo, Stefan Petri, Miina Porkka, Stefan Rahmstorf, Sibyll Schaphoff, Kirsten Thonicke, Arne Tobian, Vili Virkki, Lan Wang-Erlandsson, Lisa Weber, Johan Rockström
2023
Science Advances
Disparate history of transgressing planetary boundaries for nutrients
V. Sandström, J. Kaseva, M. Porkka, M. Kuisma, Y. Sakieh, H. Kahiluoto
2023
Global Environmental Change
A global analysis of potential self-sufficiency and diversity displays diverse supply risks
Emmy Wassénius, Miina Porkka, Magnus Nyström, Peter Søgaard Jørgensen
2023
GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY
Quantifying Earth system interactions for sustainable food production via expert elicitation
Anna Chrysafi, Vili Virkki, Mika Jalava, Vilma Sandström, Johannes Piipponen, Miina Porkka, Steven J. Lade, Kelsey La Mere, Lan Wang-Erlandsson, Laura Scherer, Lauren S. Andersen, Elena Bennett, Kate A. Brauman, Gregory S. Cooper, Adriana De Palma, Petra Doell, Andrea S. Downing, Timothy C. DuBois, Ingo Fetzer, Elizabeth A. Fulton, Dieter Gerten, Hadi Jaafar, Jonas Jägermeyr, Fernando Jaramillo, Martin Jung, Helena Kahiluoto, Luis Lassaletta, Anson W. Mackay, Daniel Mason-D'Croz, Mesfin M. Mekonnen, Kirsty L. Nash, Amandine Pastor, Navin Ramankutty, Brad Ridoutt, Stefan Siebert, Benno Simmons, Arie Staal, Zhongxiao Sun, Arne Tobian, Arkaitz Usubiaga-Liano, Ruud J. van der Ent, Arnout van Soesbergen, Peter H. Verburg, Yoshihide Wada, Sam Zipper, Matti Kummu
2022
Nature Sustainability
Poor correlation between large-scale environmental flow violations and freshwater biodiversity: implications for water resource management and the freshwater planetary boundary
Chinchu Mohan, Tom Gleeson, James S. Famiglietti, Vili Virkki, Matti Kummu, Miina Porkka, Lan Wang-Erlandsson, Xander Huggins, Dieter Gerten, Sonja C. Jähnig
2022
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
Globally widespread and increasing violations of environmental flow envelopes
Vili Virkki, Elina Alanärä, Miina Porkka, Lauri Ahopelto, Tom Gleeson, Chinchu Mohan, Lan Wang-Erlandsson, Martina Flörke, Dieter Gerten, Simon N. Gosling, Naota Hanasaki, Hannes Müller Schmied, Niko Wanders, Matti Kummu
2022
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
A planetary boundary for green water
Lan Wang-Erlandsson, Arne Tobian, Ruud J. van der Ent, Ingo Fetzer, Sofie te Wierik, Miina Porkka, Arie Staal, Fernando Jaramillo, Heindriken Dahlmann, Chandrakant Singh, Peter Greve, Dieter Gerten, Patrick W. Keys, Tom Gleeson, Sarah E. Cornell, Will Steffen, Xuemei Bai, Johan Rockström
2022
Nature Reviews : Earth and Environment
Is wetter better? Exploring agriculturally-relevant rainfall characteristics over four decades in the Sahel
Miina Porkka, Lan Wang-Erlandsson, Georgia Destouni, Annika Ekman, Johan Rockström, Line Josefin Gordon
2021
Environmental Research Letters
Illuminating water cycle modifications and Earth system resilience in the Anthropocene
Tom Gleeson, Lan Wang‐Erlandsson, Miina Porkka, Samuel C. Zipper, Fernando Jaramillo, Dieter Gerten, Ingo Fetzer, Sarah E. Cornell, Luigi Piemontese, Line J. Gordon, Johan Rockström, Taikan Oki, Murugesu Sivapalan, Yoshihide Wada, Kate A. Brauman, Martina Flörke, Marc F. P. Bierkens, Bernhard Lehner, Patrick Keys, Matti Kummu, Thorsten Wagener, Simon Dadson, Tara J. Troy, Will Steffen, Malin Falkenmark, James S. Famiglietti
2020
Water Resources Research
The Water Planetary Boundary: Interrogation and Revision
Tom Gleeson, Lan Wang-Erlandsson, Samuel C. Zipper, Miina Porkka, Fernando Jaramillo, Dieter Gerten, Ingo Fetzer, Sarah E. Cornell, Luigi Piemontese, Line J. Gordon, Johan Rockström, Taikan Oki, Murugesu Sivapalan, Yoshihide Wada, Kate A. Brauman, Martina Flörke, Marc F. P. Bierkens, Bernhard Lehner, Patrick Keys, Matti Kummu, Thorsten Wagener, Simon Dadson, Tara J. Troy, Will Steffen, Malin Falkenmark, James S. Famiglietti
2020
One Earth
Giving legs to handprint thinking : foundations for evaluating the good we do
Joseph H. A. Guillaume, Suvi Sojamo, Miina Porkka, Dieter Gerten, Mika Jalava, Leena Lankoski, Elina Lehikoinen, Michael Lettenmeier, Stephan Pfister, Kirsi Usva, Yoshihide Wada, Matti Kummu
2020
Earth's Future
Simulating the Cascading Effects of an Extreme Agricultural Production Shock : Global Implications of a Contemporary US Dust Bowl Event
Alison Heslin, Michael J. Puma, Philippe Marchand, Joel A. Carr, Jampel Dell'Angelo, Paolo D'Odorico, Jessica A. Gephart, Matti Kummu, Miina Porkka, Maria Cristina Rulli, David A. Seekell, Samir Suweis, Alessandro Tavoni
2020
Frontiers in sustainable food systems
School Choice to Lower Secondary Schools and Mechanisms of Segregation in Urban Finland
Sonja Kosunen, Venla Bernelius, Piia Seppänen, Miina Porkka
2020
URBAN EDUCATION
Interplay of trade and food system resilience : Gains on supply diversity over time at the cost of trade independency
Matti Kummu, Pekka Kinnunen, Elina Lehikoinen, Miina Porkka, Cibele Queiroz, Elin Röös, Max Troell, Charlotte Weil
2020
GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY
Integrating the Water Planetary Boundary With Water Management From Local to Global Scales
Samuel C. Zipper, Fernando Jaramillo, Lan Wang-Erlandsson, Sarah E. Cornell, Tom Gleeson, Miina Porkka, Tiina Häyhä, Anne-Sophie Crepin, Ingo Fetzer, Dieter Gerten, Holger Hoff, Nathanial Matthews, Constanza Ricaurte-Villota, Matti Kummu, Yoshihide Wada, Line Gordon
2020
Earth's Future
Invisible water security: Moisture recycling and water resilience
Patrick W. Keys, Miina Porkka, Lan Wang-Erlandsson, Ingo Fetzer, Tom Gleeson, Line J. Gordon
2019
Water Security
Bringing it all together : linking measures to secure nations’ food supply
Matti Kummu, Marianela Fader, Dieter Gerten, Joseph HA Guillaume, Mika Jalava, Jonas Jägermeyr, Stephan Pfister, Miina Porkka, Stefan Siebert, Olli Varis
2017
Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
The use of food imports to overcome local limits to growth
Miina Porkka, Joseph H.A. Guillaume, Stefan Siebert, Sibyll Schaphoff, Matti Kummu
2017
Earth's Future
Resilience in the global food system
David A. Seekell, Joel Carr, Jampel Dell'Angelo, Paolo D'Odorico, Marianela Fader, Jessica A. Gephart, Matti Kummu, Nicholas Magliocca, Miina Porkka, Michael J. Puma, Zak Ratajczak, Maria Cristina Rulli, Samir Suweis, Alessandro Tavoni
2017
Environmental Research Letters
Past and present biophysical redundancy of countries as a buffer to changes in food supply
Marianela Fader, Maria Cristina Rulli, Joel Carr, Jampel Dell'Angelo, Paolo D'Odorico, Jessica A. Gephart, Matti Kummu, Nicholas Magliocca, Miina Porkka, Christina Prell, Michael J. Puma, Zak Ratajczak, David Aseekell, Samir Suweis, Alessandro Tavoni
2016
Environmental Research Letters
Diet change and food loss reduction
Mika Jalava, Joseph H. A. Guillaume, Matti Kummu, Miina Porkka, Stefan Siebert, Olli Varis
2016
Earth's Future
The water-energy-food nexus and the transboundary context
Marko Keskinen, Joseph H A Guillaume, Mirja Kattelus, Miina Porkka, Timo A. Räsänen, Olli Varis
2016
WATER
The world's road to water scarcity
M. Kummu, J. H A Guillaume, H. De Moel, S. Eisner, M. Flörke, M. Porkka, S. Siebert, T. I E Veldkamp, P. J. Ward
2016
Scientific Reports
Reserves and trade jointly determine exposure to food supply shocks
Philippe Marchand, Joel A. Carr, Jampel Dell'Angelo, Marianela Fader, Jessica A. Gephart, Matti Kummu, Nicholas R. Magliocca, Miina Porkka, Michael J. Puma, Zak Ratajczak, Maria Cristina Rulli, David A. Seekell, Samir Suweis, Alessandro Tavoni, Paolo D'Odorico
2016
Environmental Research Letters
Water stress in global transboundary river basins
H. Munia, J. H. A. Guillaume, N. Mirumachi, M. Porkka, Y. Wada, M. Kummu
2016
Environmental Research Letters
Causes and trends of water scarcity in food production
Miina Porkka, Dieter Gerten, Sibyll Schaphoff, Stefan Siebert, Matti Kummu
2016
Environmental Research Letters
The role of virtual water flows in physical water scarcity
Miina Porkka, Matti Kummu, Stefan Siebert, Martina Florke
2016
Water and Security in Central Asia: Solving a Rubik's Cube
Exploring the Modifiable Areal Unit Problem in Spatial Water Assessments: A Case of Water Shortage in Monsoon Asia
Aura Salmivaara, Miina Porkka, Matti Kummu, Marko Keskinen, Joseph H.A. Guillaume, Olli Varis
2015
WATER
A global data set of the extent of irrigated land from 1900 to 2005
Stefan Siebert, Matti Kummu, Miina Porkka, Petra Döll, Navin Ramankutty, Bridget R. Scanlon
2015
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
A conceptual model to guide exploration of global food-water security
Joseph H.A. Guillaume, Matti Kummu, Miina Porkka, Olli Varis
2014
7th International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software, San Diego, CA, USA, June 15-19, 2014
Diet change - a solution to reduce water use ?
Mika Jalava, Matti Kummu, Miina Porkka, Stefan Siebert, Olli Varis
2014
Environmental Research Letters
A global dataset of the extent of irrigated land from 1900 to 2005
S. Siebert, M. Kummu, M. Porkka, Petra Döll, N. Ramankutty, B. R. Scanlon
2014
HYDROLOGY AND EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCES DISCUSSIONS
From food insufficiency towards trade dependency: a historical analysis of global food availability
Miina Porkka, Matti Kummu, Stefan Siebert, Olli Varis
2013
PloS one
From food insufficiency towards trade dependency: A historical analysis of global food system
Miina Porkka, Matti Kummu, Stefan Siebert, Olli Varis
2013
Lost food, wasted resources: global food supply chain losses and their impacts on freshwater, cropland, and fertiliser use
Matti Kummu, Hans de Moel, Miina Porkka, Stefan Siebert, Olli Varis, Philip J Ward
2012
Science of the Total Environment
The Role of Virtual Water Flows in Physical Water Scarcity: The Case of Central Asia
Miina Porkka, Matti Kummu, Stefan Siebert, Martina Flörke
2012
International Journal of Water Resources Development
The Role of Virtual Water Flows in Physical Water Scarcity: The Case of Central Asia
Miina Porkka, Matti Kummu, Stefan Siebert, Martina Flörke
2012
International Journal of Water Resources Development
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