The Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research is concerned with the use, development and protection of natural and urban spaces. The focus of our research is on solving problems to do with the responsible use of landscapes and forests and a prudent approach to natural hazards, especially those common in mountainous countries. WSL occupies a leading position internationally in these research areas. We also provide groundwork for sustainable environmental policies in Switzerland.

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5 datasets found

  • Land use/cover dynamics in Austin metropolitan area since 1992

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The present dataset is part of the published scientific paper Zhao C, Weng Q, Hersperger A M. Characterizing the 3-D urban morphology transformation to understand urban-form...

    Last updated: February 7, 2022

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    • austin
    • land-use
    • land-dynamics
    • landscape
    • urban-morphology
  • ANEZET: Analysing Net-Zero Transformations

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    We have analysed past transformations in Switzerland in four environmental domains, with the aim to draw conclusions for current challenges, such as the net‐zero transformation....

    Last updated: June 1, 2023

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    • forest
    • natural-hazards
    • enabling-factors
    • biodiversity
    • transition
    • landscape
    • hindering-factors
  • Electrodermal Activity (EDA) of Bi-cultural Visitors In Virtual Park Settings

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This repository contains data on EDA measurements of visitors with different cultural backgrounds in virtual urban park settings. The parks are a Persian garden (Shiraz, Iran) and...

    Last updated: December 14, 2022

    • ZIP
    • sense-of-place
    • urban-ecology
    • landscape
    • electrodermal-activity
    • place-attachment
  • Amphibian observation and pond data (Aargau, Switzerland)

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    In the canton of Aargau, hundreds of new ponds have been constructed since the 1990s to benefit declining amphibian populations. This dataset consists of monitoring data for all 12...

    Last updated: September 21, 2023

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    • CSV
    • HTML
    • PDF
    • landscape
    • occupancy-models
    • amphibians
    • wetlands
    • conservation
  • Hybrid choice modelling dataset for the effects of landscape-technology fit on public evaluations

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    We present stated preference data based on a national representative Swiss online panel survey for the preference of renewable energy infrastructure in landscapes. The data was...

    Last updated: February 3, 2021

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    • stated-choice-model
    • landscape
    • mixed-renewable-energy-landscapes
    • renewable-energy-meanings
    • energy
    • hybrid-choice-model
    • renewable-energy
    • survey
    • perceived-landscape-quality
    • landscape-technology-fit
    • landscape-meanings