Joonas Plaan
Lecturer of Anthropology
School of Humanities
Introduction
Joonas Plaan is a lecturer in anthropology. In his Ph.D. dissertation, he studied how climate change affects inshore fisheries in Newfoundland, Canada. Joonas has done fieldwork among different fishing communities in Estonia. Currently, he is also working for the Estonian Fund for Nature (ELF) as a sustainable fisheries expert and board member. He is also a board member of the Centre of Environmental History (KAJAK).
Main tasks
Teaching: Environmental anthropology
BA and MA thesis supervision
Anthropology BA program curator
Areas of research
Human-environment interactions, including:
environmental anthropology
political ecology
environmental history
landscape studies
fisheries
Baltic Sea and North-Atlantic fishing communities
Environmentalism