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Spatiotemporal patterns of urbanization during the last four decades in Switzerland and their impacts on urban heat islands
Urbanization is nowadays a global phenomenon which is increasingly concentrating the world's population in cities. In Switzerland, recent decades have seen an unprecedented loss of arable land due to urbanization, which has triggered amendments in the spat ...
EPFL2021New perspectives for spatial planning in Switzerland: the role of ecosystem services
Spatial planning deals with the spatial expression of human activities in an integrated way to minimize their negative impacts on the natural and land systems. Rapid land use and land cover changes are important drivers of change of the benefits people der ...
EPFL2020Alternative Scenarios for the Development of Oil Palm in the Tropics: Carbon and Nutrients Dynamics
Expansion of agriculture in forested areas poses significant threats and pressure to ecosystems and potentially the global climate. More specifically, expansion of oil palm (OP) plantations has been found to exert great impact on key ecosystem functions li ...
EPFL2020Stakeholders’ Perspectives to Support the Integration of Ecosystem Services in Spatial Planning in Switzerland
Integrating the concept of ecosystem services (ES) into spatial planning is an opportunity to make land use and management choices that maximize the delivery of multiple ES. The assessment of social demand can be useful for the identification of priority a ...
2019Carbon neutral expansion of oil palm plantations in the Neotropics
Alexandre Buttler, Thomas Guillaume, Juan Carlos Quezada Rivera
Alternatives to ecologically devastating deforestation land use change trajectories are needed to reduce the carbon footprint of oil palm (OP) plantations in the tropics. Although various land use change options have been proposed, so far, there are no emp ...
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)2019Application of the planning support system URBio
Nils Christian Schüler, Sébastien Cajot
The planning support system URBio is demonstrated via two case studies. Both case studies are located in the canton of Geneva. The first case study is a greenfield planning project, where the goal is to build a new district on former agricultural land. The ...
Academic Press2019Adapting Governance Incentives to Avoid Common Pool Resource Underuse: The Case of Swiss Summer Pastures
The use of summer pastures in the European Alps provides much evidence against Hardin's prediction of the tragedy of the commons. For centuries, farmers have kept summer pastures in communal tenure and avoided its overuse with self-designed regulations. Du ...
2018Pilot studies on optimizing land use, building density and solar electricity generation in dense urban settings
François Maréchal, Shanshan Hsieh, Arno Schlueter
Previous studies have identified links between the urban form and the performance of urban energy systems. Land use and density are two important aspects of urban planning and design. This paper studies the relationship between these aspects and the perfor ...
UNIV POLITECNICA VALENCIA2018Ecosystem services and federalism: a case study of Switzerland
A fundamental element of a federated state is the division of power between a central government and the component states. Switzerland is a federation consisting of twenty-six sovereign states named canton. Each canton has its own government and parliament ...
2017Using stable isotopes and tracer-aided modelling to assess hydrological impacts of urbanisation
Urbanisation is known as a fundamental driver of actual land use change. A good understanding of how catchments are affected by urbanisation (particularly in terms of water quantity and quality) is necessary to be able to propose more sustainable approache ...
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