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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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.
Komossa, F.; Wartmann, F.M.; Verburg, P.H., 2021: Expanding the toolbox: assessing methods for local outdoor recreation planning. Landscape and Urban Planning, 212: 104105 (10 pp.). doi: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2021.104105
Dou, Y.; Cosentino, F.; Malek, Z.; Maiorano, L.; Thuiller, W.; Verburg, P.H., 2021: A new European land systems representation accounting for landscape characteristics. Landscape Ecology, doi: 10.1007/s10980-021-01227-5
Bazrafshan, M.; Mikaeili Tabrizi, A.; Bauer, N.; Kienast, F., 2021: Place attachment through interaction with urban parks: a cross-cultural study. Urban Forestry and Urban Greening, 61: 127103 (11 pp.). doi: 10.1016/j.ufug.2021.127103
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., 2021: Restoring steppe landscapes: patterns, drivers and implications in Russia’s steppes. Landscape Ecology, 36: 407-425. doi: 10.1007/s10980-020-01174-7
Nor Akmar, A.A.; Hersperger, A.M.; Kabisch, N.; Adjei Mensah, C.; Wang, X.; Douglas, I., 2021: Local governments and urban ecology. Planning and practice examples from Africa, Asia and Europe. In: Douglas, I.; Anderson, P.M.L.; Goode, D.; Houck, M.C.; Maddox, D.; Nagendra, H.; Yok, T.P. (eds), 2021: Routledge handbook on urban ecology. London, Taylor & Francis. 907-930.
Wang, Y.; Van Vliet, J.; Debonne, N.; Pu, L.; Verburg, P.H., 2021: Settlement changes after peak population: land system projections for China until 2050. Landscape and Urban Planning, 209: 104045 (12 pp.). doi: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2021.104045
Spielhofer, R.; Hunziker, M.; Kienast, F.; Wissen Hayek, U.; Grêt-Regamey, A., 2021: Does rated visual landscape quality match visual features? An analysis for renewable energy landscapes. Landscape and Urban Planning, 209: 104000 (21 pp.). doi: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2020.104000
Linderhof, V.; Meeske, M.; Diogo, V.; Sonneveld, A., 2021: The impact of water-related pollution on food systems in transition: the case of northern Vietnam. Sustainability, 13, 4: 1-23. doi: 10.3390/su13041945
Salak, B.; Lindberg, K.; Kienast, F.; Hunziker, M., 2021: How landscape-technology fit affects public evaluations of renewable energy infrastructure scenarios. A hybrid choice model. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 143: 110896 (13 pp.). doi: 10.1016/j.rser.2021.110896
Domingo, D.; Palka, G.; Hersperger, A.M., 2021: Effect of zoning plans on urban land-use change: a multi-scenario simulation for supporting sustainable urban growth. Sustainable Cities and Society, 69: 102833 (19 pp.). doi: 10.1016/j.scs.2021.102833
Debonne, N.; Van Vliet, J.; Metternicht, G.; Verburg, P., 2021: Agency shifts in agricultural land governance and their implications for land degradation neutrality. Global Environmental Change, 66: 102221 (13 pp.). doi: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2020.102221
Perpiña Castillo, C.; Jacobs-Crisioni, C.; Diogo, V.; Lavalle, C., 2021: Modelling agricultural land abandonment in a fine spatial resolution multi-level land-use model: an application for the EU. Environmental Modelling and Software, 136: 104946 (27 pp.). doi: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2020.104946
Revilla, S.; Lamelas, M.T.; Domingo, D.; De la Riva, J.; Montorio, R.; Montealegre, A.L.; García-Martín, A., 2021: Assessing the potential of the DART model to discrete return LiDAR simulation - application to fuel type mapping. Remote Sensing, 13, 3: 342 (21 pp.). doi: 10.3390/rs13030342
Zagaria, C.; Schulp, C.J.E.; Zavalloni, M.; Viaggi, D.; Verburg, P.H., 2021: Modelling transformational adaptation to climate change among crop farming systems in Romagna, Italy. Agricultural Systems, 188: 103024. doi: 10.1016/j.agsy.2020.103024
Debonne, N.; Van Vliet, J.; Ramkat, R.; Snelder, D.; Verburg, P., 2021: Farm scale as a driver of agricultural development in the Kenyan Rift Valley. Agricultural Systems, 186: 102943 (12 pp.). doi: 10.1016/j.agsy.2020.102943
Hersperger, A.M.; Grădinaru, S.R.; Pierri Daunt, A.B.; Imhof, C.S.; Fan, P., 2021: Landscape ecological concepts in planning: review of recent developments. Landscape Ecology, doi: 10.1007/s10980-021-01193-y
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
Das Programm Landschaftsbeobachtung Schweiz (LABES) erhebt in periodischen Abständen den Zustand und die Veränderung der Landschaften der Schweiz. Abgestützt ist LABES durch die Gesetzgebung des Natur- und Heimatschutzgesetzes (Artikel 25a) auf nationaler Ebene. International ist LABES seit Beginn mit der Definition der Landschaft, wie sie die Europäische Landschaftskonvention festhält, kompatibel.
WSL Berichte 103
2021
Kienast, F.; Schmid, F.B.; 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
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