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Have you ever wondered how many vehicles pass through your favourite recreation area or nature reserve? This question can now be answered with our new global dataset on extra-urban road traffic volumes.

Lieber Damian. Herzliche Gratulation zu Deiner Ernennung als Professor of Practice in Raumplanung an der ETH Zürich.

Although economic growth is a key driver of biodiversity loss, the scenarios developed so far consider that the economy must continue growing. This leads to bleak futures for biodiversity. The paper suggests key methodological steps to include economic systems where the priority is not growth but the wellbeing of people and nature.  

Switzerland’s diversity of landscapes offers an ideal setting to describe the various interactions between Nature’s contributions to people (NCP) and biodiversity. In this recent study, we generated spatially explicit maps of 15 NCP indicators covering all of Switzerland, as well as one biodiversity map based on the distribution of over 1400 endangered species across various taxa.