2017

The goal of Jonas's PhD project was to show how results from multi-objective optimization can be used to improve the decision-making process concerning sustainable urban development in Switzerland.

A new board called association Raum+ was founded on November 6, 2017 in Zurich and will be hosted at ETH at the PLUS chair.

Prof. Dr. Adrienne Grêt-Regamey together with Dr. Daniel A. Friess will lead the project "Assessing Singapore’s Natural Capital”.

Prof. Dr. Adrienne Grêt-Regamey together with Dr. Daniel A. Friess will lead the project «Assessing Singapore’s Natural Capital” from the Singapore-ETH Centre.

The ERC grant is a very competitive funding and consists of CHF 1.7 million from the European Research Council for outstanding early career scientists to conduct five years of research projects.  

Laser scanners and drones provide 3D point clouds of a landscape.

In July 2017, 14 PhDs, postdocs and other staff of PLUS went for a week-long writing retreat in the scenic, hilly landscape of Toggenburg, Switzerland.

Five groups of students from REIS, environmental engineering, geomatics, and geography Master programs presented their work on landscape development concepts to the city of Altstätten on 12 June 2017.

Camille Girod’s master's thesis wins “Prix d’encouragement 2017”.

In her PhD project Sibyl Huber investigated sustainable development pathways of mountain social-ecological systems.  

The recently started project ENERGYSCAPE develops recommendations serving as a basis for a landscape strategy with a mix of renewable energy systems.

The book "Mapping Ecosystem Services" is now available. It provides a short and understandable introduction suitable for a broad audience.

Adrienne Grêt-Regamey is contributing to the massive open online course (MOOC) on Ecosystem Services organized by the Universitsy of Geneva

The PLUS-research group welcomes three new employees