Publications by Livia Bianca Fritz

Navigating power in conservation

2023

Perceived impacts of the Fridays for Future climate movement on environmental concern and behaviour in Switzerland

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Livia Bianca Fritz, Ralph Hansmann

Calling for increased action on climate change, Fridays for Future (FFF) quickly gained momentum around the world and became highly visible through strikes and protests in more than 150 countries. Considering its scale and magnitude, questions about the im ...

2023

"The crisis justified the urgency, but now we have to go back to the rule of law": Urban mobility governance during Covid-19

Livia Bianca Fritz

During COVID-19, many cities built pop-up infrastructure for cyclists and pedestrians. We analyse the experiences of Geneva and Lyon through a qualitative approach based on document analysis and interviews with institutional and societal actors. We explore ...

ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD2023

Innovations for the sustainability transformation Conceptual cornerstones of the saguf working group INSIST

Livia Bianca Fritz, Patrick Wäger

OEKOM VERLAG GMBH2022

Explore, engage, empower: methodological insights into a transformative mixed methods study tackling the COVID-19 lockdown

Vincent Kaufmann, Daniel Gatica-Perez, Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Livia Bianca Fritz, Anna Pagani, Garance Clément, Laurie Daffe, Melissa Pang, Ulrike Vilsmaier

Action-oriented, transformative, and transdisciplinary approaches are increasingly heralded as promising tools that enable researchers not only to produce new knowledge about a situation, but also to actively engage in tackling it; however, such approaches ...

2022

‘Ecological concerns weren’t the main reason why I took the bus, that association only came afterwards’: on shifts in meanings of everyday mobility

Livia Bianca Fritz, Franziska Meinherz

Reducing the modal share of car travel in commuting implies challenging meanings of everyday mobility that tie commuting to driving. Existing research has focussed on describing ways in which everyday mobility is meaningful. However, why shifts in meanings ...

2021

Activities, Housing Situation and Other Factors Influencing Psychological Strain Experienced During the First COVID-19 Lockdown in Switzerland

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Livia Bianca Fritz, Anna Pagani, Garance Clément, Ralph Hansmann

Background: The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) crisis and the corresponding first nationwide lockdown from mid-March to 10 May 2020 engendered considerable psychological strain among people in Switzerland. This study analyzes determinants of changes i ...

Frontiers Media2021

Vom Öffnen und Verschließen von Alternativen: Implikationen der gesellschaftlichen Einbettung nachhaltigkeitsrelevanter Wertvorstellungen

Livia Bianca Fritz, Franziska Meinherz

Nomos2021

How the first wave of COVID-19 in Switzerland affected residential preferences

Vincent Kaufmann, Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Livia Bianca Fritz, Anna Pagani, Ralph Hansmann

During the first wave of COVID-19, residents’ health and well-being were challenged as residential environments suddenly had to accommodate most of the functions of an urban system. Although scholars and practitioners have proposed reconsidering dwelling r ...

2021

The Politics of Participatory Sustainability Assessments: An Analysis of Power

Livia Bianca Fritz, Franziska Meinherz

The participation of societal actors has been advanced as the gold standard of sustainability assessment processes and is thought essential to dealing with the plurality of normative claims surrounding sustainability and the need to take decisions in a con ...

Cambridge University Press2020