Economics and Social Sciences
- investigate societal claims, attitudes, valuations, and participation and decision processes regarding the topics mentioned above;
- analyze economic, societal, and spatial processes, as well as societal structures, institutions, and relevant policies (e.g. governance) as to their effects on the environment, resources, and life quality;
- develop and evaluate communicative, persuasive, regulative, institutional, and economic measures, instruments and strategies.
- Data Manager:
- roland_olschewski-wsl_ch
The Economics and Social Sciences Research Unit is concerned with economic, institutional and societal questions of WSL-Research topics, in particular with landscape, natural resources, spatial development and natural hazards. It addresses real and specific problems and deals with them in an interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary or disciplinary way.
The work of the research unit is undertaken in accordance with the idea of sustainability and improves the knowledge of systems, of objectives, and of transformation.
The researchers
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Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape (WSL)
- Biodiversity and Conservation Biology
- Community Ecology
- Economics and Social Sciences
- Research Unit Forest Resources and Management (FoReMa)
- Forest Dynamics
- Forest Soils and Biogeochemistry
- Forest health and biotic interactions
- Mountain Hydrology and Mass Movements (GebirgsHydrologie)
- Land Change Science
- WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research (SLF)
- National data and information center for the fungi of Switzerland (SwissFungi)
- SwissLichens
- WSL Publications (Web & Print)