Registration to our 2nd summer school on blue-green biodiversity is now open!
Our summer school - Research & practice at the interface of aquatic & terrestrial ecosystems - will take place in August in Davos, Switzerland.
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In der Stadtplanung solle es künftig eine Kernaufgabe sein, der Natur mehr Raum zu gewähren und den Zugang zu Grünflächen als 'Schlüsselressource für lebenswerte Städte' gerecht zu verteilen, schreibt Fritz Kleinschroth im aktuellen #Zukunftsblog .
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Urban planners should to focus on giving nature more space and on granting equitable access to green spaces, argues
Fritz Kleinschroth in the latest #Zukunftsblog . For they are 'key resources for liveable cities'.

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#Sustainability #UrbanPlanning

My picture made it to the cover of Nature Cities!
Check out our article on urban green space use during COVID: nature.com/articles/s4428…

Very insightful interview by Yilin Huang about the process of preparing, researching and writing her exceptional MSc thesis. #proudsupervisor

🌳✨ New study by Kleinschroth et al (2024) in Nature Cities uncovers global shifts in #UrbanGreenSpace (UGS) use during #COVID19 . I'd like to share important key #takeaways I noticed🧵
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New systematic review in Nature Cities on the use of urban green space during COVID-19 shows how much more and what kind of green is needed for future healthy and sustainable cities. Open access: nature.com/articles/s4428… with Sini Savilaakso D-USYS@ETH Uni Stuttgart TU Berlin

Fritz Kleinschroth #Urban #planners take note! Making space for community gardens aligns with #sustainable urban planning as they provide vital #social and #ecological retreats in an urbanizing world.

New paper showing a surge of demand for urban community gardens from 2018 to 2022. Thanks to the massive effort of Dominik Bieri, who contacted hundreds of community gardens in 6 countries to ask for counts of their application numbers. Open access: doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug…

👩‍🌾💼✨ According to our latest survey, 89% of graduates of our Forest and Landscape major would chose this study programme again and 94% found a job they like after graduation. Dear students, the world seems to be waiting for you! 👉bit.ly/3RqtgRB #usyslife

Whose perspective counts? We reviewed definitions and uses of terms associated with natural and near-natural forests. Some findings: Although importance of values is increasingly recognised, definitions that explicitly incorporate values are scarce. 1/
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Job alert: Great Postdoc opportunity for someone with experience in landscape visualizations as part of our new project 'Visualizing daylight management in river restoration' together with Jaboury Ghazoul D-USYS@ETH IVM - VU Amsterdam WSL Umweltforschung Peter Marcus Bach
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📢New link to the announcement of Fritz Kleinschroth's talk tomorrow at WSL 👉 wsl.ch/en/about-wsl/i…

Our WSL website had some big changes yesterday and the old link is broken. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Our #WSLBiodiversitySeminar series starts again this week with an exciting interdisciplinary talk. Fritz Kleinschroth Fritz Kleinschroth, will present tools & approaches aiming at inclusive social-ecological planning to reconcile biodiversity conservation & infrastructure development.

Greening cities!

Great talk by Fritz Kleinschroth on how the use of urban green space changed during the covid-crisis (review).

#gfoe23 D-USYS@ETH GfÖ

How do people want their public greenspaces? Biodivers but tidy! Otherwise, there’s a high risk of lacking public acceptance. Interesting evaluation by Valentin Klaus #gfoe2023

Thank you so much, Fritz Kleinschroth for coming onto the show! I had a blast producing it! Check out Episode 18 for Fritz's incredible story! #urbanecology #Infrastructure #Covid_19 #forests #podcast #waterhyacinth #drones

I’m honored to be the interview guest in the Grand Challengers podcast by Peter Marcus Bach. Check it out here: petermbach.com/index.php/podc…
Or listen to it directly on Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6AfOyR…
There’s even a trailer on YouTube😃:
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How do students D-USYS@ETH perceive active learning? I asked them. The results are published in the ETH Zurich Learning and Teaching Journal: learningteaching.ethz.ch/index.php/lt-e…

🚨New paper in Nature Food 🚨
We estimated GHG emissions, land use, water use, water pollution (eutrophication) and biodiversity impact of real-life vegan, vegetarian, fish-eating and meat-eating diets.

All five outcomes strongly correlated with animal-based foods in diet.