Dr. Matthias Buchecker
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Economics and Social Sciences
Social Sciences in Landscape Research
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+41 44 7392 360
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Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL
Zürcherstrasse 111
8903 Birmensdorf
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Research interests
My research interests focus on the relation between people and their
(changing) environment in rural as well as in urban regions. I would
like to find out, which environmental qualities are needed for people's
well-being (identity, restoration, integration), how people can be encouraged
to stick up for their needs (commitment, public participation) and what is the
effect of people�s involvement in the development of their environment on
the people-environment-relation (need satisfaction, social capital, leisure mobility).
Current research projects
My latest own projects are:
- Conflicting Expectations and Objectives regarding the Development of Alpine Landscapes
(within the National Research Program 48 'Landscapes and habitats in the Alps') >>>
- Requirements for the local life quality and the potential
of consensus building for
a sustainable development of space and mobility (within the WSL Research program
'Land Resources Management in Peri-Urban Environments') >>>
- Participatory Landscape Development: Elaborating a guideline for a living landscape
- Socio-Cultural Aspects of Landscape Development >>>
As project manager and supervisor I am involved in the following projects:
- Conflicting Expectations and Objectives regarding the Development of Alpine Landscapes >>>
- Perception and Assessment of Natural Hazards within the
EU-project PINE) >>>
- The residents' objectives regarding the revitalisation of rivers
(within the umbrella project 'sustainable
river development') >>>
Current professional activities
- Project management and supervision of PhD-projects (Susanne Kianicka, Berit Junker, Christine Jurt, Mari Riipinen)
- Managing the module 'Societal requirements for local life quality and negotiations
of land use decisions' of the WSL research programme 'Land Resources Management in Peri-Urban Environments'
- Planning new projects and acquiring research funds
- Doing actual research work and publishing research findings
- Supporting the head of the section in administrative and representative tasks
- Consulting the practice (governmental agencies and public organisations)
Academic Education
1991 University diploma in geography (with a special
focus on land use planning and hydrology) at the University of Berne,
Switzerland
1999 Promotion at the University of Berne. PhD-Project under the direction of Prof.
P. Messerli: Landscape as the lifeworld of the residents: sustainable landscape
development by need satisfaction, identification and participation. >>>
Professional Experience
2002 — Head of the module 'Societal requirements
for local life quality and negotiations of land use decisions'
of the WSL Research Program 'Land Resources Management in Peri-Urban
Environments'.
1999 — Senior scientist at the Swiss Federal Institute WSL, Birmensdorf
1994 — 1998 PhD-student and research assistant at the Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf
1991 — 1994 Collaborator at the consultant firm for forest and landscape development 'Pan' at Berne
1991 — 1992 Scientist at the Laboratory of Hydraulics, Hydrology and Glaciology of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
1986 — 1987 Work experience at the agency of space planning of the Canton of Berne
