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  • Bird-window collision and biodiversity : Awareness of the collisions in the city of Helsinki and Lahti 
    Rusanen, Milja (2024)
    More and more people live in cities and urbanization is estimated to grow in the future. The functionality of the city is therefore important in terms of nature values. The diversity of urban nature is important for the environment but also for humans. The diverse nature of the city contributes to human health on a physical and psychological level. On a larger scale, biodiversity is a prerequisite for the functioning of the global economy. In this thesis I surveyed the question of whether people know about environmental problems in Lahti and Helsinki. I focused on bird-window collisions in urban areas and how this affects biodiversity. I aimed to determine whether there is a correlation between areas that are supposed to have a lot of bird strikes and awareness of the problem in these areas. The importance of urban nature to human life is obvious, but perhaps not very well known. I aimed to survey the amount of consciousness among citizens in Helsinki and Lahti. In this thesis, I also aim to bring together already existing research data and create a broader picture of the contribution of urban structures harmful to birds and biodiversity.
  • Where economic parity meets ecology: Neither biodiversity nor ecosystem integrity values relate with socioeconomy in a medium-sized Finnish city 
    Rautjärvi, Sini (2022)
    Urbanization is a growing trend, with most people living in cities nowadays. Understanding the relationships between people and nature is crucial, as ecological conditions are heavily influenced by human-environment interactions. According to prior research, socioeconomy and biodiversity are generally related. Low biodiversity typically correlates with poorer socioeconomic status, and vice versa. In this study, I aimed to determine whether there is a correlation between Lahti's socioeconomy (income) and biodiversity (bird and plant species richness and the urban ecosystem integrity index, UEII). Lahti is a medium sized city with an urban continuum of 54 km2. I used existing biodiversity data collected in the summer of 2021 and combined it with the most up-to-date socioeconomic data at the time, retrieved from the publicly available city of Lahti statistical database TILDA. The results of the study were contradictory to previous research, i.e., there was no relationship between biodiversity and socioeconomy. This gives us novel information about the luxury effect and its presence and opens doors for further research on the topic.

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