Ruslan Gunko

Ruslan Gunko is a researcher and lecturer at the Faculty of Bioeconomy, Novia University of Applied Sciences. He holds a PhD in Environmental Science from the University of Turku and previously worked as a post-doctoral researcher at Åbo Akademi University. His research employs interdisciplinary approaches to examine climate-society interactions.

Research focuses on:

• Environmental quality-life quality relationships
• Land use change impacts
• Climate change adaptation
• Environmental democracy
• Citizen science methodologies

Publications emphasize coastal ecosystems, climate adaptation, and socio-environmental systems, with recent work examining war impacts on Ukrainian environments. Current project LES 2.0 investigates environmental democracy through data linkage of ecological surveys and GIS datasets.