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Completed Research Programmes

Management einer zukunftsfähigen Waldnutzung
Oliver Thees
Walddynamik
Thomas Wohlgemuth
Wald-Wild-Kulturlandschaft
Werner Suter
Landschaft im Ballungsraum
Silvia Tobias

WSL’s Research Programmes

WSL develops, together with its partners in science, society and the economy, solutions for socially relevant questions, which have a strong focus on implementation and are oriented to practice. WSL’s approach is inter- and transdisciplinary. This often requires close collaboration across the boundaries of organisational units, which is why we set up Programmes (large projects) to work on interdisciplinary issues for a limited period.

Research programme Room for People and Nature

The new WSL research programme Room for People and Nature is examining the future development of intensively exploited regions, and intends to formulate basic principles for managing them in a sustainable way. It is being established and implemented in close collaboration with practitioners.

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Long-term Forest Ecosystem Research Programme LWF

The mission of LWF is to improve our understanding of how natural and anthropogenic stresses affect forests in the long term, and which risks for humans are involved. Consequently, we need to gain a more profound knowledge of the cause-effect relationships in the forest ecosystem and the underlying processes.

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Swiss National Forest Inventory NFI

What does the Swiss forest look like and how does it change over time? The Swiss National Forest Inventory (NFI) tries to answer these questions.

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RAMMS rapid mass movements

In the field of natural hazards there is a strong need for process models. Researchers of WSL develop a unified software package, for both research and practice, where different kinds of processes are combined in one tool. The package consists of the process modules debris flow, rockfall, snowcover and avalanche, a protect module and a visualization module.

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Forschungsprogramm Wald und Klimawandel

Der Klimawandel stellt eine zentrale Herausforderung des 21. Jahrhunderts dar. Auch auf den Wald könnte sich der Klimawandel einschneidend auswirken. Um diese Auswirkungen zu begrenzen und die Waldleistungen sicherzustellen, benötigen die Waldfachleute Grundlagenwissen und Entscheidungshilfen.

Available languages: German