Ranja Hautamäki works as Associate Professor in Landscape Architecture. She is a landscape architect and gained a doctor of science degree in 2016. Her professorship is landscape planning and society. Ranja works with sustainable landscape planning and management with a special interest in two topics: planning practices and discourses. Her research addresses nature-based solutions and planning practices to tackle societal challenges related to climate change, biodiversity and well-being. Her recent funded projects focus on green infrastructure in climate change mitigation and adaptation. She has studied the conceptions of nature and how these are translated into planning and materialized in landscape architecture.