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Dr. Nicole Bauer - Personal Homepage

Organisational unit:	Economics and Social Sciences Social Sciences in Landscape Research
Phone:	+41 44 7392 458
Fax:	+41 44 7392 215
Room:	Bi HV F 07
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Address:	Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL Zürcherstrasse 111 8903 Birmensdorf

Research Interests and Projects

environmental psychology, health psychology and applied social psychology:
restoration, well-being, health effects of natural environments, attitudes towards wilderness, rewilding and landscape changes, man-nature-relationship, quality of life, residential quality

Research projects, in which I am involved as project manager, supervisor and/or researcher:

Urban Gardening

Allotment gardens are a special type of urban green and play an important role in modern urban environments both for the ecosystem and for the society. The study of the WSL investigates the effects of allotment gardens on the well being and physical and social health of their users. Different health’s aspects are associated with allotment gardens and with gardens in general. These aspects are however only marginal empirical tested.

Available languages: German English

WaMos 2 - Forest monitoring socio-cultural

The aim of the research project WaMos 2 is to assess the attitudes of the population towards forest and wood related topics. In doing so, the project revisits and builds upon work that was done in 1997. The results of WaMos 2 will serve as a basis for forest related policy, and the forest- and environment-related reporting of FOEN.

Available languages: German English French

GeneMig – Genetic variation and species migration under environmental change: views of science, environmental management, and the general public

GeneMig is an inter- and transdisciplinary research project that identifies societal and environmental challenges and risks associated with migration of species and their genes in a changing environment. This project (1) combines genetic methods with landscape modelling and (2) assess public attitudes and coping strategies towards species migration in the context of environmental change.

Available languages: German English

Other Professional Activities

Co-editor of the journal Umweltpsychologie since 2012

Detailed CV (PDF) and publication list (PDF)

Professional Experience

July 2006 - Research Fellow at WSL, Group Social Sciences in Landscape Research
2003 - 2006 Research Fellow at WSL, Section Landscape and Society.
2000 - 2003 Post-doc assistant at WSL, Section Landscape and Society.
1998 - 1999 Research Fellow, Clinic for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, Charité, Humboldt University Berlin.

Academic Education

1998 – 2000 PhD-Thesis at the University of Technology Berlin, Germany, Environmental and Technical Psychology Unit: Evaluation of suburban housing areas; planning of children's environments.
1990 - 1997 University of Technology Berlin: Studies of Psychology and Sociology of Architecture, main subject Social and Environmental Psychology. Diploma Thesis on the assessment of the residential environments by children.