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Landscape Development

Landscapes are continually changing. These changes occur on a large scale at a slow pace. At WSL we are investigating their causes and the effects they have on humans and the environment. This research provides a sound scientific basis for sustainable landscape development, which aims at (a) protecting landscape quality and (b) fostering the identification of the population with their everyday landscape.

Landscape Research Center WSL

In spring 2012 WSL established the Landscape Research Center which has the following aims:

Disseminate knowledge to stakeholders working in landscape management
Act as a link between researchers at WSL and other scientists
Promote research and teaching in Landscape Research

In focus

Landscape genetics: making the invisible visible

Landscape genetics combines landscape ecology and population genetics, enabling connections to be made between the dispersal of plants and animals on the one hand and landscape elements that act as barriers or corridors on the other. Landscape genetics therefore provides a relevant basis for the planning and implementation of nature conservation measures.

Available languages: German English

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New publication

Bauer, N.; Mondini, M.; Bernasconi, A. (eds) 2012:

Landscape and Health: Effects, Potential and Strategies. Landschaft und Gesundheit: Wirkung, Potentiale und Strategien. Abstracts. 2nd International Conference, January 24 and 25, 2012.

Birmensdorf, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL. 112 pp.

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