Land-use systems
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Head:Prof. Dr. Anna Hersperger
The land-use systems group studies landscape patterns and processes and their changes over time. We focus on urban, rural and alpine landscapes and their multifunctionality while conducting research in the following topics:
- Development of models for simulating future landscape dynamics and for estimating the resulting landscape services.
- Analysis of historical changes in ecosystems and landscapes (focus on the past 100 to 250 years) and their implications in the context of historical ecology.
- Analysis of actors, driving forces, and land change and their interaction to understand the causes of landscape change.
- Contributing to the further development of landscape planning, based, for example, on conflict analysis and the evaluation of planning instruments.
- Analysis of social-ecological networks and the assessment of their ecological connectivity in urban and peri-urban areas.
The land-use systems group combines methods and theories from natural sciences and social sciences on spatial scales from single ecosystems to continents. We are equally committed to theory development and innovative applications.
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Staff
Land-use systems
Groupleader, Member of Directors Board | |
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Wiss.Mitarbeiterin / Aushilfe | |
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Postdoc | |
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Head of WSL Landscape Centre | |
PhD student | |
Senior Scientist | |
PhD student guest |
Services and Products
Scenarios of land-use change for download
Person in charge:
Bronwyn Price
Urban Sprawl Metrics tool (USM)
Person in charge:
Felix Kienast
Publications
Die Berechnung der neusten Entwicklung der Zersiedelung zeigt räumliche Disparitäten auf. Basierend darauf macht das Buch Vorschläge zu Ziel- und Grenzwerten und stellt dar, wie diese Vorschläge in der raumplanerischen Gesetzgebung umgesetzt werden könnten.
Bristol-Schriftenreihe 57
2018
Slave, A.R.; Iojă, I.; Hossu, C.; Grădinaru, S.R.; Petrișor, A.; Hersperger, A.M., 2023: Assessing public opinion using self-organizing maps. Lessons from urban planning in Romania. Landscape and Urban Planning, 231: 104641 (11 pp.). doi: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2022.104641
Alves, C.; Marcos, B.; Gonçalves, J.; Verburg, P.; Pellissier, L.; Lomba, A., 2023: Co-occurrences and species distribution models show the structuring role of dominant species in the Vez watershed, in Portugal. Ecological Indicators, 151: 110306 (10 pp.). doi: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2023.110306
Diogo, V.; Jacobs-Crisioni, C.; Baranzelli, C.; Lavalle, C., 2023: Integrated spatial simulation of population and urban land use: a pan-European model validation. Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy, doi: 10.1007/s12061-023-09518-x
He, T.; Wang, K.; Xiao, W.; Xu, S.; Li, M.; Yang, R.; Yue, W., 2023: Global 30 meters spatiotemporal 3D urban expansion dataset from 1990 to 2010. Scientific Data, 10: 321 (11 pp.). doi: 10.1038/s41597-023-02240-w
Mann, S.; Hunziker, M.; Torregroza, L.; Wartmann, F.; Kienast, F.; Schüpbach, B., 2023: Landscape quality payments in Switzerland: the congruence between policy and preferences. Journal of Policy Modeling, 45, 2: 251-265. doi: 10.1016/j.jpolmod.2023.03.007
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