Land-use systems
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Head:Dr. Anna Hersperger
The land-use systems group studies landscape patterns and processes and their changes over time. We focus on cultural 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;
- Application and further development of landscape genetic methods and theories;
- Analysis of historical changes in ecosystems and landscapes (focus on the past 100 to 250 years);
- Analysis of ecological implications of landscape and ecosystem changes in the context of the field 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.
The landscape ecology 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
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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
Focus WSL magazine Diagonal, 2/17: Whatever we do, we change the landscape. Our landscape researchers take a closer look so that we can shape these transformations together.
Wartmann, F.M.; Frick, J.; Kienast, F.; Hunziker, M., 2021: Factors influencing visual landscape quality perceived by the public. Results from a national survey. Landscape and Urban Planning, 208: 104024 (10 pp.). doi: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2020.104024
Pierri Daunt, A.B.; Sanna Freire Silva, T.; Bürgi, M.; Hersperger, A.M., 2021: Urban expansion and forest reserves: drivers of change and persistence on the coast of São Paulo State (Brazil). Land Use Policy, 101: 105189 (14 pp.). doi: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.105189
Pazur, R.; Prishchepov, A.V.; Myachina, K.; Verburg, P.H.; Levykin, S.; Ponkina, E.V.; Kazachokov, G.; Yakovlev, I.; Akhmetov, R.; Rogova, N.; Bürgi, M., 2020: Restoring steppe landscapes: patterns, drivers and implications in Russia’s steppes. Landscape Ecology, doi: 10.1007/s10980-020-01174-7
Malek, Ž.; Verburg, P.H., 2020: Mapping global patterns of land use decision-making. Global Environmental Change, 65: 102170 (16 pp.). doi: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2020.102170
Tobias, S., 2020: Megatrends und Unsicherheiten. Strategien für den Umgang mit raumrelevanten Megatrends. Raum & Umwelt, 2020, 4: 12-15.
Hersperger, A.M.; Fertner, C., 2020: Digital plans and plan data in planning support science. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, doi: 10.1177/2399808320983002
Allen, C.; Metternicht, G.; Verburg, P.; Akhtar-Schuster, M.; Inacio da Cunha, M.; Sanchez Santivañez, M., 2020: Delivering an enabling environment and multiple benefits for land degradation neutrality: stakeholder perceptions and progress. Environmental Science and Policy, 114: 109-118. doi: 10.1016/j.envsci.2020.07.029
Wolff, S.; Meijer, J.; Schulp, C.J.E.; Verburg, P.H., 2020: Contextualizing local landscape initiatives in global change: a scenario study for the high forest zone, Ghana. Regional Environmental Change, 20, 4: 115 (17 pp.). doi: 10.1007/s10113-020-01701-x
Van Vliet, J.; Birch-Thomsen, T.; Gallardo, M.; Hemerijckx, L.; Hersperger, A.M.; Li, M.; Tumwesigye, S.; Twongyirwe, R.; Van Rompaey, A., 2020: Bridging the rural-urban dichotomy in land use science. Journal of Land Use Science, 15, 5: 585-591. doi: 10.1080/1747423X.2020.1829120
Arıkan, B.; Mohr, F.; Bürgi, M., 2020: Exploring the common ground of landscape ecology and landscape archaeology through a case study from eastern Anatolia, Turkey. Landscape Ecology, doi: 10.1007/s10980-020-01128-z
Eigenbrod, F.; Beckmann, M.; Dunnett, S.; Graham, L.; Holland, R.A.; Meyfroidt, P.; Seppelt, R.; Song, X.P.; Spake, R.; Václavík, T.; Verburg, P.H., 2020: Identifying agricultural frontiers for modeling global cropland expansion. One Earth, 3, 4: 504-514. doi: 10.1016/j.oneear.2020.09.006
Zhao, C.; Jensen, J.L.R.; Weng, Q.; Currit, N.; Weaver, R., 2020: Use of Local Climate Zones to investigate surface urban heat islands in Texas. GIScience & Remote Sensing, 57, 8: 1083-1101. doi: 10.1080/15481603.2020.1843869
Domingo, D.; De la Riva, J.; Lamelas, M.T.; García-Martín, A.; Ibarra, P.; Echeverría, M.; Hoffrén, R., 2020: Fueltype classification using airborne laser scanning and Sentinel 2 data in Mediterranean forest affected by wildfires. Remote Sensing, 12, 21: 3660 (22 pp.). doi: 10.3390/rs12213660
Schmid, F.B.; Kienast, F.; Hersperger, A.M., 2020: The compliance of land-use planning with strategic spatial planning–insights from Zurich, Switzerland. European Planning Studies, doi: 10.1080/09654313.2020.1840522
Palka, G.; Oliveira, E.; Pagliarin, S.; Hersperger, A.M., 2020: Strategic spatial planning and efficacy: an analytic hierarchy process (AHP) approach in Lyon and Copenhagen. European Planning Studies, doi: 10.1080/09654313.2020.1828291
Hersperger, A.M.; Grădinaru, S.R.; Siedentop, S., 2020: Towards a better understanding of land conversion at the urban-rural interface: planning intentions and the effectiveness of growth management. Journal of Land Use Science, 15, 5: 644-651. doi: 10.1080/1747423X.2020.1765426
Hölting, L.; Komossa, F.; Filyushkina, A.; Gastinger, M.; Verburg, P.H.; Beckmann, M.; Volk, M.; Cord, A.F., 2020: Including stakeholders’ perspectives on ecosystem services in multifunctionality assessments. Ecosystem and People, 16, 1: 354-368. doi: 10.1080/26395916.2020.1833986
Schulze, K.; Malek, Ž.; Verburg, P.H., 2020: The impact of accounting for future wood production in global vertebrate biodiversity assessments. Environmental Management, 66: 460-475. doi: 10.1007/s00267-020-01322-4
Kienast, F.; Gosteli, S.; Edwards, T.C.Jr.; Martius, G., 2020: Lessons learned from the first worldwide accessible e-learning in Landscape Ecology. Landscape Online, 83: 1-14. doi: 10.3097/LO.202083
Helfenstein, J.; Diogo, V.; Bürgi, M.; Verburg, P.; Swart, R.; Mohr, F.; Debonne, N.; Levers, C.; Herzog, F., 2020: Conceptualizing pathways to sustainable agricultural intensification. In: Bohan, D.A.; Vanbergen, A.J. (eds), 2020: The future of agricultural landscapes. London, Elsevier. 161-192. doi: 10.1016/bs.aecr.2020.08.005
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