Dr. Yasmine Willi
Fonction
collaboratrice scientifique
Contact
Institut fédéral de recherches sur la forêt, la neige et le paysage WSL
Zürcherstrasse 111
8903 Birmensdorf
Site
Birmensdorf Bi HV E 05
Interests
Regional Governance ● Regional Policy ● Policy Development and Implementation ● Sufficiency Policy ● Rural Digitalization ● Entrepreneurship and Agency ● Protected Areas ● Spatial Planning ● Social Transformation ● Rural and Peripheral Regions ● Human and Economic Geography ●
FURTHER INFORMATION
Publications
2022
Lange B, Herlo B, Willi Y, Pütz M (2022): New working spaces in rural areas: designing a research agenda for regional sovereignty in post-pandemic times. In: Mariotti I, Bednar P, Di Marino M (Eds): The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Future of Working Spaces (Routledge-RSA Regions & Cities Book Series – Regions, Cities and Covid-19)
2021
Willi G, Willi Y, Pütz M (2021): Wasserkraftnutzung in der Schweiz und ihre Perspektiven. In: Becker S, Klagge B, Naumann M (Hg.): Energiegeographie: Konzepte und Herausforderungen. Eugen Ulmer / UTB, p. 225-234
Halef M, Willi Y. 2021. Suffizienzorientierte Mobilitätslösungen für den ländlichen Raum der Schweiz. N + L inside, Nr. 03, p. 15
2020
Willi Y, Pütz M, Jongerden J (2020): Unpacking legitimacy in regional development: Asymmetric justification and the functioning of regional development agencies. Territory, Politics, Governance. >>> [PDF]
Willi Y (2020). Suffizienz in ländlichen Räumen. In: Flohr M, Markus L (eds): Suffizienz an Hochschulen im ländlichen Raum. Berlin: netzwerk n, p. 10-12. >>>
Willi Y, Nischik G, Braunschweiger D, Pütz M (2020): Responding to the Covid-19 Crisis: Transformative Governance in Switzerland. Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 111(3):302-317. >>> [PDF]
2019
Willi Y, Pütz M (2019): Governance of regional development: How can regions unlock their potential? RSA Regions e-Zine, Issue 4, 1st June 2019. DOI: 10.1080/13673882.2018.00001040 >>>
2018
Willi Y, Pütz M (2018): Governance of regional development: How can regions unlock their potential [Governance der Regionalentwicklung: Wie Regionen ihr Potenzial nutzen können] [Gouvernance du développement régional: comment les régions peuvent-elles valoriser leur potentiel]. Swiss Academies Factsheet, 13(3). Bern. 6 p. >>> [PDF]
Willi Y, Pütz M, Müller M (2018): Towards a versatile and multi-dimensional framework to analyse regional governance. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 36(5):775–795. >>> [PDF]
Willi Y, Pütz M, Mayer H (2018): Policy entrepreneurship and regional development. CRED Research Paper: Vol. 21. Bern: Center for Regional Economic Development (CRED). >>> [PDF]
2017
Pütz M, Gubler L, Willi Y (2017): New governance of protected areas. Regional Nature Parks in Switzerland. eco.mont – Journal on Protected Mountain Areas Research and Management, 9(1):75-84. >>> [PDF]
Wallner A, Willi, Y, Hammer T (2017): We are the political landscape – governance in European protected areas. Report on the tutorial held at the EUROPARC Conference 2016. eco.mont, 9(1):40-41. doi: 10.1553/eco.mont-9-1s40. >>> [PDF]
2016
Willi Y, Heeb J, Pütz M (2016): Governance in der Regionalentwicklung. Ergebnisblatt Forschungsreflexion, regiosuisse. >>> [PDF]
Pütz M, Willi Y (2016): Qualitätsmerkmale räumlich-strategischer Prozesse auf Regionsebene. Bern, Staatssekretariat für Wirtschaft SECO; Bundesamt für Raumentwicklung ARE. 35 p. >>> [PDF]
Presentations
Presentations and Conference Contributions
2022
Willi Y (2022). The role of Swedish national and regional governmental levels in fostering sufficiency policy. Viable Cities Workshop on Redirecting Public Funding. 12. October 2022, Uppsala.
Iten T, Willi Y (2022). Realizing sufficiency policy in municipalities. 5. Symposium Konsum Neu Denken. 23. September 2022, BOKU Vienna. [in German]
Willi Y, Bräuchi R (2022). Governance municpal sufficiency policy. ARE Forum Nachhaltige Entwicklung 2022. 17. May 2022, Bern. [in German]
Willi Y., Iten T. (2022). (Under What Circumstances) can Sufficiency Policy be a Viable Alternative Strategy for 'Left Behind Places'? RSA Regions in Recovery Second Edition. 29. März 2022, online.
Iten T., Willi Y. (2022). Suffizienzpolitik in ländlichen Gemeinden. Austauschtreffen Forschungsnetzwerk Suffizienz, 25. März 2022, online. [in German]
2021
Willi Y (2021). Sufficiency policy in rural regions. ISEE-ESEE Degrowth Online Joint Conference, 07.Juli 2021, online.
Willi Y (2021). Doing things differently: the role of sufficiency policiesfor sustainable futures in rural regions. Regional Studies Association Global E-Festival, 3rd June 2021, online
2020
Willi Y (2020). Postwachstum und Regionalentwicklung in ländlichen Gebieten. [Postgrowth and regional development in rural areas]. MAS Raumplanung ETH Zürich, 7. September 2020.
2019
Tuitjer G, Willi Y (2019). Innovation in rural areas: Identifying factors that enable governance entrepreneurs to initiate regional transformation [session’s organizer and chair]. Regional Innovation Policies Conference, 7.-8. November 2019, Florence, Italy.
Willi Y, Pütz M, Mayer H (2019). Governance entrepreneurs gestalten regionale Entwicklungsprozesse in Pärken. Wie können sie darin unterstützt werden? 3. Parktagung Schweiz, 29.Oktober 2019, Bern, Switzerland.
Willi Y, Pütz M, Mayer H (2019). How governance entrepreneurs shape regional development processes [in German]. ÖAW conference on 'key actors in regional development', 24.-25. May, Vienna, Austria.
Willi Y, Pütz M, Jongerden J (2019). Unpacking legitimacy in regional development. How legitimization efforts can contribute to the malfunctioning of regional development agencies. SUSPLACE Final Event, 7.-10. May, Tampere, Finland.
2018
Willi Y, Pütz M, Mayer H (2018). Governance entrepreneurs in regional development. Regional Studies Association Annual Conference, 3-6 June, Lugano, Switzerland.
Willi Y (2018). Special Session: The governance of regional development: How regional development strategies are formulated and implemented [session’s organizer and chair]. Regional Studies Association Annual Conference, 3-6 June, Lugano, Switzerland.
Willi Y, Pütz M (2018): Governance der Regionalentwicklung: Wie regionale Entwicklungsprozesse funktionieren und unterstützt werden können. General Assembly Swiss Parcs Network, 31 May - 1. June 2018, Naturpark Diemtigtal, Switzerland.
2017
Heilmann S, Höcke C, Willi Y (2017): Planung - wie transformativ bist du eigentlich? Jahrestagung 2017 des Jungen Forums der ARL, 22-23 September, Lüneburg, Germany. [member of the organizing team]
Willi Y, Pütz M (2017): Legitimacy in regional governance. Session "Governance, regions and development", RGS-IGB Annual International Conference, 29 August - 1 September 2017, London, UK.
Willi Y, Pütz M (2017): Assessing transformations of regional governance. Regional Studies Association Annual Conference, 4 -7 June, Dublin, Ireland.
2016
Pütz M, Gubler L, Willi Y (2016): New governance of protected areas: Regional Nature Parks in Switzerland. Regional Studies Association Winter Conference, 24-25 November 2016, London, UK.
Pütz M, Willi Y (2016): Qualitätsanforderungen des Bundes an räumlich-strategische Prozesse auf Regionsebene. Workshop "Kooperationsfähigkeit und Strategieorientierung von Regionen und Agglomerationen - Wirkungen der Anreize und Anforderungen in den Förderinstrumenten des Bundes“, 31 October 2016, Bern, Switzerland.
Willi Y, Pütz M, Müller M (2016). Towards a versatile and multi-dimensional framework of regional governance. EUROPARC Conference, 19 October 2016, Parc Jura Vaudois, Switzerland
Willi Y, Pütz M (2016): Governance of the Commons: Using the Regional Nature Parks in Switzerland as an Example. European Conference of the International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC), 10-13 May 2016, Bern, Switzerland.
Willi Y, Pütz M (2016): Governance of regional development: Proposing an analytical framework for empirical research. Regional Studies Association Conference, 3-6 April 2016, Graz, Austria.
2015
Willi Y, Pütz M (2015): Governance in der Regionalentwicklung. Deutscher Kongress für Geographie, 1-6 October 2015, Berlin, Germany. [Poster]
CV
Academic background
Since 05/2021
Scientific staff at Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL
01/2019-04/2021
Postdoctoral Researcher at Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL
10/2014-07/2018
PhD Candidate at Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL and University of Bern
03/2018-05/2018
Visiting Research Fellow at Wageningen University, the Netherlands
02/2010-12/2012
MSc in Geography, University of Bern, Switzerland
09/2006-06/2009
BSc in Geography (Major), Minor in Economics, University of Bern, Switzerland
Professional background
01/2012-01/2014
Office of Economy and Labor, Department of Economic, Social and Environmental Issues, Canton Basel-Stadt, Switzerland. Scientific Employee.
09/2009-02/2010
National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) North-South, Vientiane, Laos. Research Assistant.
01/2009-12/2011
Centre for Development and Environment (CDE), Bern, Switzerland. Student Research Assistant.
Memberships in scientific boards
05/2021-05/2023
Member of the Working Group ‘Wohlstandsalternativen und Regionalentwicklung’ of the Academy for Territorial Development in the Leibniz Association (ARL). >>>
12/2019-12/2021
Member of the Working Group ‘Postal Growth in Rural Areas’ of the Young Forum of the Academy for Territorial Development in the Leibniz Association (ARL).
10/2019-09/2023
Member of the Management Committees of the COST Action CA18214 ‘The Geography of New Working Spaces and the Impact on the Periphery’. >>>
Memberships in scientific societies
Since 01/2019 Member of the Centre for Landscape Research at WSL >>>
Since 03/2017 Member of the Young Forum of the ARL >>>
Since 08/2015 Member of the Swiss Study Society for Spatial Planning and Regional Policy (ROREP) >>>