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2024
01
New PhD student in the EU-project MOSAIC
In Memory of Willy A. Schmid
02
Playing games to unlock urban neighbourhood transformations?
New publication in the Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning
03
Mapping open spaces in Swiss mountain regions through consensus-building and machine learning
Award of the title of “Professor of Practice”
04
Shifting Paradigm: Incorporating Landscape Preferences and Ecosystem Services into Siting Scenarios for Renewable Energies
2023
01
Towards more inclusive urban parks
Global urban homogenization leads to loss of emotions
02
4 new collaborators starting at PLUS
Planning resilient and sustainable cities benefits from well-planned dialogue between science and design
03
How much do farmers depend on cash crop income?
What drives deforestation in Switzerland?
Where should wind turbines be constructed in Switzerland?
04
The importance of land use on different scales for birds in agricultural areas
How can we look at coexistence in landscapes from the perspective of people and wildlife?
05
Two new doctoral students for two new EU projects
06
Immersive serious games modify public participation in urban planning
07
PLUS writing week in Austria
Place-making: people, procedures, places for urban transformations under increasing homogenisation of neighbourhoods and alienation of people
How might different futures of human-nature relations unfold in Switzerland?
08
Aligning social networks and co-designed visions can foster systemic innovation in the Alps. A new paper from the PLUS MountainPathways project just got published in the journal Regional Environmental Change (REC).
Validating Farmland Biodiversity Life Cycle Assessment at the Landscape Scale
09
In the LVML diving virtually into the Gotthard massif, playing a Serious Game
10
Engaging with places to counteract urban homogeneity
11
"We must have the courage to question our own values"
12
How previous experiences shape actors’ current perspectives in integrated natural resource management
Archetypes of social-ecological-technological systems for managing ecological infrastructure
A new perspective paper in Landscape and Urban Planning
2022
01
Regional planning is more than the sum of single municipality planning
03
New publication in the Journal of Environmental Planning and Management
Do we have enough recreational spaces during pandemics? – a new publication in Landscape and Urban Planning
04
Land consolidation in Blauen: Helpful 3D visualizations
06
Future Cities Lab Global Tana – News from Antananarivo
07
New publication about deep learning landscape typologies
IALE 2022 European Landscape Ecology Congress
IRL Summer get together
PLUS writing week in Champéry
09
Jan Streit starts at PLUS
Ana Stritih receives an ETH medal for her doctoral thesis.
38th Annual Q Conference in Orlando, Florida
10
A new review article describes resilience as transforming a system to make it stronger, more adaptable and more innovative.
11
Perhaps we should re-consider the status quo? A new article showing how we can improve the efficiency and transparency of land use model calibration.
12
"Even if it is rather difficult to accept - We have to build vertically".
Sudau Manuel: testimony from a speaker of the Q conference 2022 in Orlando
Survey on ecosystem services of urban floodplains in Madagascar
2021
01
Visual coherence– a crucial factor for perception of renewable energy infrastructures
02
How do recent management and historical land use affect mountain forests' susceptibility to disturbances?
03
Measuring ‘place’ - the first puzzle piece in fostering place-making in the urban-rural gradient
The ETHZ-EPFL Summer School «Designing for Resiliency: RE:GENERATE alpine-urban circularity» is taking place June 5-13th, 2021.
04
Participatory multi-objective optimization for planning dense and green cities
05
Four new doctoral students join PLUS
The discourse of 'Place attachment' in urban parks
Project Week Landscape Development - project opening in Arth with Federal Councillor Simonetta Sommaruga
06
Serious games to identify joint problems for scientists and stakeholders
07
Another PLUS writing week in Saas Almagell
Reto Spielhofer successfully completed his PhD on «Optimal Swiss Renewable Energy Landscapes»
Ana Stritih successfully completed her PhD on “Risk-Based Assessments of Ecosystem Services. Addressing Uncertainty in Mountain Forest Management”
08
Nature-Based Solutions
PLUS at the Scientifica, 4. – 5. September 2021
12
raum+ completed the survey of the settlement area reserves in the canton of Valais.
New publication in Nature Urban Sustainability
VR Therapy project brings innovative insights
2020
01
ENERGYSCAPE as a "spotlight" at the final event of the NRP Energy
02
PLUS welcomes new employees
04
New Publication: An online platform for spatial and iterative modelling with Bayesian Networks
05
Open position for Research Assistant
Virtual coffee break
06
Victoria Junquera completed her PhD on ”Crop booms in forest frontiers: Zooming in and Out"
Open position: PhD in land use and ecosystem services modeling
PLUS awarded new large project on ecological infrastructure: the ValPar.CH project
08
Sergio Wicki starts at PLUS
incolab: Spin-off of the group PLUS
09
10
Benjamin Black joined the PLUS team
11
Tranquility map of the Swiss Plateau
Modelling grassland management intensity and biodiversity
Physiological and behavioral reactions to renewable energy systems in various landscape types
ENERGYSCAPE in the Swissgrid Blog
12
What is the contribution of mountain areas to global ecosystem services production?
Livelihood vulnerability in northern Laos
2019
03
New publication in Nature Sustainability
Research at PLUS featured in "Science Stories"
04
Spotlight on... studying spatial engineering
05
Isabel Zelger joined PLUS
07
Adrienne Grêt-Regamey gives an interview about the current heat wave and urban planning
08
PLUS writing week in the Saas Valley
Conference presentations from GLP open science meeting 2019 available
09
New lecture in participatory modelling starting this fall semester
Resilience in socio-ecological systems: Publication and virtual coffee session online
Interdisciplinary project work in Singapore
13. conference in land management focusing on structural development in rural areas
Culmann-Price for MSc Thesis Jens Fischer and Manuel Fernandez
12
Systemic Design Labs Video released
PLUS wishes happy holidays
11
Thomas Drobnik successfully finished his PhD on ”Ecosystem Services and Soil Quality"
2018
03
New section on Decision-support platforms at PLUS
PLUS organized a Cross-country ski crash course Cross-country ski crash course at PLUS
Professor Tobias Luthe just joined PLUS in March 2018
Guided tour: Listening to Landscapes
We are hiring!
Impressions from the AV Lab-Demo
04
Inspiring talk on Resilience to Climate Change at the Austrian Climate Day by Tobias Luthe from PLUS
Conceptual framework of the Checnet project published
The stories our mountains tell
Kick-off workshop of the project: Assessing Singapore’ s Natural Capital
05
Sibyl Huber from PLUS wins a Silver Medal for an outstanding Doctoral thesis at the ETH
The importance of soil quality in spatial planning was investigated within the NRP68 and is now covered by the Swiss media
Nicolas Salliou joined PLUS
06
New publication: An agenda for soil management in spatial planning
Assessment of soil multi-functionality to support the sustainable use of soil resources on the Swiss Plateau
07
Big Data for Assessing Ecosystem Services
PLUS writing retreat in Blatten bei Naters
09
The Mobile Visual-Acoustic Lab «MVAL» visits the Laboratorium Luzern
Adrienne Grêt-Regamey receives Art of Leadership Award
08
Singapore's Natural Capital project successfully launched
10
New Bachelor's degree programme in “Geospatial Engineering”
2017
01
New employees at PLUS
02
Adrienne Grêt-Regamey contributing to an online course on ecosystem services
03
Mapping Ecosystem Services Book Available
04
PLUS is coordinating the ENERGYSCAPE Project
07
Sibyl Hanna Huber successfully finished her PhD dissertation on „Social-ecological modeling of Alpine ecosystem services“
Master thesis of Camille Girod wins price
Project week landscape development in Altstätten SG
PLUS goes on writing retreat
08
Perceiving landscape in a new dimension
09
Prof. Dr. Adrienne Grêt-Regamey obtained a European Research Council (ERC) Grant
10
Prof. Dr. Adrienne Grêt-Regamey will lead the new project “Assessing Singapore’s Natural Capital”
Prof. Dr. Adrienne Grêt-Regamey will lead the new project “Assessing Singapore’s Natural Capital”
11
Raum+ will be hosted at PLUS
12
Jonas Schwaab successfully achieved his PhD dissertation on “Multi-objective optimization for improving the sustainability of urban development”
2016
01
Culmann-Fonds award 2016 for Master's thesis of Sander Kool
02
New employees at PLUS
A new MAES report about forest ecosystem services
First journal publications of 2016
05
ECOPOTENTIAL Project
06
PLUS at GEOSummit & GEOSchool Day 2016 in Berne
09
Introducing Oppla: a global platform for nature-based solutions aiming to revolutionise environmental knowledge
10
ETH Zukunftsblog Contribution "Improving resilience through diverse land stewards"
Thomas M. Klein successfully finished his Ph.D. dissertation on “Visual Communication of Ecosystem Services”
11
PLUS members @ 3rd Global Land Programme Open Science Meeting in Beijing
Brennpunkt Klima Schweiz
2015
06
EU Horizon 2020 project ESMERALDA
Dissertation Madeleine Manyoky
07
New CHECNET project
Future Cities Lab Singapore to continue
09
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Dissertation Derek Vollmer
10
Lecture in the MOOC Livable Future Cities
11
MESEU Final Synthesis Report
2014
04
Dissertation Jürg Altwegg
03
12
Final report of the NRP 65-Project "SUPat – Sustainable Urban Patterns" online
11
Project HydroServ finalised
09
PLUS participates in Research for Development (r4d) – project
05
Dissertation Enrico Celio
Mountain Research Initiative
02
2013
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First prize for PLUS-Poster
2012
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