2016

Adrienne Grêt-Regamey contributed to the recently published report "Brennpunkt Klima Schweiz"

Victoria Junquera, Jonas Schwaab, and Enrico Celio contributed with four presentations, one poster and a session to the GLP-OSM

Biodiversity has been shown to increase the resilience of ecosystems to global change. But what fosters the resilience of socio-ecological systems? We have shown that in order to build and maintain resilient mountain landscapes, we need not only a diversity of species, but a diversity of land stewards.  

In his Ph.D. project Thomas M. Klein investigated user demands and technical requirements for web-based spatial decision support systems (DSS) and geographic information systems (GIS)

Oppla, a new open platform for nature-based solutions, launches on Tuesday 20th September as part of the Ecosystem Services Conference taking place in Antwerp, Belgium.

From 7. - 9. June 2016 the PLUS gave a live demo of the visual-acoustic simulation of wind turbines (VisAsim) at the GEOSummit 2016 in Berne. A special event was the GEOSchoolDay, where pupils could explore the wind park landscape with the Virtual Reality headset Oculus Rift. 

ECOPOTENTIAL is a large European-funded H2020 project that aims to blend Earth Observations from remote sensing and field measurements, data analysis and modelling to assess current and future ecosystem conditions and services.

Four journal items about ecosystem services related to rivers, ecosystem services in the Swiss Alps and an indicator framework for assessing ecosystem services in EU-countries.

A new report by the MAES-initiative has been published: Mapping and assessment of forest ecosystem services – Applications and guidance for decision making in the framework of MAES

The PLUS-research group welcomes six new employees from six different countries

The Master's thesis of Sander Kool has been awarded by the Culmann-Fonds. The title of the thesis is "Small Urban Open Spaces - a contribution to the provision of open spaces in the city of Zurich".