Nicole Bauer
Biographic Data
| ID | 3751295 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicole Bauer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicole |
| FAMILY NAME | Bauer |
| SIGNATURE | BAUER N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6172-717X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A Captive Conspiracy Theorist
This article is a case study of a lawyer, Jean-Charles Le Prévôt, who was imprisoned from 1768 until the French Revolution. He was arrested for defaming and accusing several prominent individuals of being involved in a “famine plot,” a scheme to hoard grain in times of famine in order to sell it at exorbitant prices. As a Jansenist, he interpreted his social and political milieu through a biblical language of light and darkness, including a stron…
Living in regions of high anthropogenic night sky brightness (skyglow) decreases the recognition of light as a pollutant
Anthropogenic light is omnipresent in the landscape with recognised negative impacts on natural environments and public health. Current absence of light pollution mitigation is driven by limited understanding of citizens’ perceptions (feeling of safety, awareness of impact, support for mitigation measures). We used a stratified survey to explore the impact of residing in regions with different sky brightness levels on the perception of anthropoge…
How the Covid-19 pandemic changed forest visits in Switzerland
Lockdown measures implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic led to a rise in people’s visits to forests and urban green spaces. However, as vaccination efforts progressed and infection rates declined, it remained uncertain whether forest visitation levels would return to pre-pandemic norms or even decreased. To explore the post-crisis status of forest visits, we conducted a comprehensive analysis using data from a representative online panel surve…
Psychophysiological effects of walking in forests and urban built environments with disparate road traffic noise exposure
ISRCTN48943261 ; Registered 23.11.2023
How Do Road Traffic Noise and Residential Greenness Correlate with Noise Annoyance and Long-Term Stress? Protocol and Pilot Study for a Large Field Survey with a Cross-Sectional Design
Urban areas are continuously growing, and densification is a frequent strategy to limit urban expansion. This generally entails a loss of green spaces (GSs) and an increase in noise pollution, which has negative effects on health. Within the research project RESTORE (Restorative potential of green spaces in noise-polluted environments), an extended cross-sectional field study in the city of Zurich, Switzerland, is conducted. The aim is to assess …
Impacts of rising Covid-19 incidence and changed working conditions on forest visits in early 2020 of the pandemic
Keeping you in the dark
During the French Revolution, the Bastille prison had become synonymous with abuses of power and government secrecy. The Paris police had long exercised secrecy in its operations, but in the eighteenth century, they became a target of the revolutionaries as the most visible arm of a government that was seen as opaque but intrusive. Both the growing power of the modernising state and the rise of public opinion in this period contributed to changin…
Forest education as contribution to education for environmental citizenship and non-anthropocentric perspectives
Forest ecosystems play a fundamental role in mitigating global environmental changes. The development of environmentally sound behavior, and inter- and intragenerational equity can help counteract these global changes. One type of formal and non-formal environmental education is forest education, which aims to promote the achievement of sustainable development in forest-related ecosystems. We conducted an empirical study among forest educators in…
Kabbalah Centre and Spirituality of the Self
The Kabbalah Centre is an international organization founded in the 1960sby Philip Berg in the USA. Initially founded as a group for the study ofOrthodox Judaism, through marketing strategies and de-traditionalisation,Kabbalah has been transformed, universalized, and presented as a series of"spiritual tools" for self-improvement by Berg and his successors. Throughthe Centre, religious seekers can adapt Kabbalistic elements to their personalspirit…
Psychological restoration in urban gardens related to garden type, biodiversity and garden-related stress
In the context of increasing urbanization, gardens as a form of urban greenspace are an important resource for the psychological restoration of urban dwellers, while underpinning urban biodiversity and delivering ecosystem services. However, the links between restoration, garden type and biodiversity are not fully understood. In this interdisciplinary study we aimed to identify how the self-reported restoration of gardeners was related to three f…
Trees, grass, or concrete? The effects of different types of environments on stress reduction
Despite a number of studies about how natural environments can affect human health and well-being, few have examined the potentially different effects of different types of vegetation. We therefore designed and conducted a randomised controlled experiment to identify the restorative potential of different types of trees and grass in an urban virtual reality (VR) environment. We initially induced stress in participants ( n = 89) by asking them to …
Konflikte und Konfliktpotentiale in interreligiösen Bildungsprozessen
Immer wenn Menschen mit unterschiedlichen kulturellen und religiösen Hintergründen aufeinandertreffen, ergeben sich manifeste wie latente Konfliktpotentiale und Ambivalenzen. Diese sind der religiösen Vielfalt moderner europäischer Gesellschaften eingeschrieben, werden aber zumeist negativ bewertet. Konflikte können jedoch auch eine positive Funktion haben: als wichtige Indikatoren für Veränderungsmöglichkeiten. Der Band widmet sich auftretenden …
What forest is in the light of people's perceptions and values
Forest is an important element of Swiss landscape, with about 30 % of the country covered by it, forming a finely structured patchwork together with water bodies, agricultural land and settlements. It is highly valued by residents as part of their everyday living and recreational environment. The aim of this paper is to provide knowledge about how residents perceive and value forests and what their dominant preferences are. The data were collecte…
Health-Related Effects of Short Stays at Mountain Meadows, a River and an Urban Site—Results from a Field Experiment
The study compared psychological and physiological health effects of short-term stays at managed and abandoned meadows, a mountain river, and an urban site of a dependent sample of 22 adult participants (mean age 27) during an 11-day field trip. The study found that pulse rates decreased during the stays at all the meadows and the urban site while no decrease was observed at the river. Blood pressure increased at all sites during the stay, with n…
Contact to Nature Benefits Health
How can urban nature contribute to the reduction of chronic stress? We twice measured the concentration of the “stress hormone” cortisol in the hair of 85 volunteer gardeners (six months apart), relating cortisol level change to (self-reported) characteristics of their recreational activities. Both time spent in nature and physical activity led to decreases in cortisol, while time spent being idle led to an increase. At high levels of present str…
Psychosocial Outcomes as Motivations for Visiting Nearby Urban Green Spaces
High-density urban living means that urban green spaces are important nodes of contact with nature. This study examines expected outcomes that motivate people to seek green spaces in urban settings. A sample of Swiss residents were presented with Shin, Kwon, Hammitt, and Kim's (2005 Shin, W., Kwon, H., Hammitt, W. and Kim, B. 2005. Urban forest park use and psychosocial outcomes: A case study in six cities across South Korea. Scandinavian Journal…
Walking in “wild” and “tended” urban forests
Evaluation of Landscape Change by Different Social Groups
Landscape is an important resource for mountain regions, particularly for tourism. Guiding future landscape development is necessary to meet the expectations of mountain inhabitants, tourists, and the general public outside mountain areas. The studies presented here show how different societal groups perceive past and future landscape changes in the Alps. The results reveal that it is not landscape change per se that is assessed as good or bad, i…
Psychosocial Outcomes as Motivations for Visiting Nearby Urban Green Spaces
High-density urban living means that urban green spaces are important nodes of contact with nature. This study examines expected outcomes that motivate people to seek green spaces in urban settings. A sample of Swiss residents were presented with Shin, Kwon, Hammitt, and Kim's (2005 Shin, W., Kwon, H., Hammitt, W. and Kim, B. 2005. Urban forest park use and psychosocial outcomes: A case study in six cities across South Korea. Scandinavian Journal…
Impacts of rising Covid-19 incidence and changed working conditions on forest visits in early 2020 of the pandemic
Evaluation of Landscape Change by Different Social Groups
Landscape is an important resource for mountain regions, particularly for tourism. Guiding future landscape development is necessary to meet the expectations of mountain inhabitants, tourists, and the general public outside mountain areas. The studies presented here show how different societal groups perceive past and future landscape changes in the Alps. The results reveal that it is not landscape change per se that is assessed as good or bad, i…
Walking in “wild” and “tended” urban forests
Psychosocial Outcomes as Motivations for Visiting Nearby Urban Green Spaces
High-density urban living means that urban green spaces are important nodes of contact with nature. This study examines expected outcomes that motivate people to seek green spaces in urban settings. A sample of Swiss residents were presented with Shin, Kwon, Hammitt, and Kim's (2005 Shin, W., Kwon, H., Hammitt, W. and Kim, B. 2005. Urban forest park use and psychosocial outcomes: A case study in six cities across South Korea. Scandinavian Journal…
Contact to Nature Benefits Health
How can urban nature contribute to the reduction of chronic stress? We twice measured the concentration of the “stress hormone” cortisol in the hair of 85 volunteer gardeners (six months apart), relating cortisol level change to (self-reported) characteristics of their recreational activities. Both time spent in nature and physical activity led to decreases in cortisol, while time spent being idle led to an increase. At high levels of present str…
What forest is in the light of people's perceptions and values
Forest is an important element of Swiss landscape, with about 30 % of the country covered by it, forming a finely structured patchwork together with water bodies, agricultural land and settlements. It is highly valued by residents as part of their everyday living and recreational environment. The aim of this paper is to provide knowledge about how residents perceive and value forests and what their dominant preferences are. The data were collecte…
Health-Related Effects of Short Stays at Mountain Meadows, a River and an Urban Site—Results from a Field Experiment
The study compared psychological and physiological health effects of short-term stays at managed and abandoned meadows, a mountain river, and an urban site of a dependent sample of 22 adult participants (mean age 27) during an 11-day field trip. The study found that pulse rates decreased during the stays at all the meadows and the urban site while no decrease was observed at the river. Blood pressure increased at all sites during the stay, with n…
Kabbalah Centre and Spirituality of the Self
The Kabbalah Centre is an international organization founded in the 1960sby Philip Berg in the USA. Initially founded as a group for the study ofOrthodox Judaism, through marketing strategies and de-traditionalisation,Kabbalah has been transformed, universalized, and presented as a series of"spiritual tools" for self-improvement by Berg and his successors. Throughthe Centre, religious seekers can adapt Kabbalistic elements to their personalspirit…
Psychological restoration in urban gardens related to garden type, biodiversity and garden-related stress
In the context of increasing urbanization, gardens as a form of urban greenspace are an important resource for the psychological restoration of urban dwellers, while underpinning urban biodiversity and delivering ecosystem services. However, the links between restoration, garden type and biodiversity are not fully understood. In this interdisciplinary study we aimed to identify how the self-reported restoration of gardeners was related to three f…
Trees, grass, or concrete? The effects of different types of environments on stress reduction
Despite a number of studies about how natural environments can affect human health and well-being, few have examined the potentially different effects of different types of vegetation. We therefore designed and conducted a randomised controlled experiment to identify the restorative potential of different types of trees and grass in an urban virtual reality (VR) environment. We initially induced stress in participants ( n = 89) by asking them to …
Konflikte und Konfliktpotentiale in interreligiösen Bildungsprozessen
Immer wenn Menschen mit unterschiedlichen kulturellen und religiösen Hintergründen aufeinandertreffen, ergeben sich manifeste wie latente Konfliktpotentiale und Ambivalenzen. Diese sind der religiösen Vielfalt moderner europäischer Gesellschaften eingeschrieben, werden aber zumeist negativ bewertet. Konflikte können jedoch auch eine positive Funktion haben: als wichtige Indikatoren für Veränderungsmöglichkeiten. Der Band widmet sich auftretenden …
Forest education as contribution to education for environmental citizenship and non-anthropocentric perspectives
Forest ecosystems play a fundamental role in mitigating global environmental changes. The development of environmentally sound behavior, and inter- and intragenerational equity can help counteract these global changes. One type of formal and non-formal environmental education is forest education, which aims to promote the achievement of sustainable development in forest-related ecosystems. We conducted an empirical study among forest educators in…
How Do Road Traffic Noise and Residential Greenness Correlate with Noise Annoyance and Long-Term Stress? Protocol and Pilot Study for a Large Field Survey with a Cross-Sectional Design
Urban areas are continuously growing, and densification is a frequent strategy to limit urban expansion. This generally entails a loss of green spaces (GSs) and an increase in noise pollution, which has negative effects on health. Within the research project RESTORE (Restorative potential of green spaces in noise-polluted environments), an extended cross-sectional field study in the city of Zurich, Switzerland, is conducted. The aim is to assess …
Impacts of rising Covid-19 incidence and changed working conditions on forest visits in early 2020 of the pandemic
Keeping you in the dark
During the French Revolution, the Bastille prison had become synonymous with abuses of power and government secrecy. The Paris police had long exercised secrecy in its operations, but in the eighteenth century, they became a target of the revolutionaries as the most visible arm of a government that was seen as opaque but intrusive. Both the growing power of the modernising state and the rise of public opinion in this period contributed to changin…
How the Covid-19 pandemic changed forest visits in Switzerland
Lockdown measures implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic led to a rise in people’s visits to forests and urban green spaces. However, as vaccination efforts progressed and infection rates declined, it remained uncertain whether forest visitation levels would return to pre-pandemic norms or even decreased. To explore the post-crisis status of forest visits, we conducted a comprehensive analysis using data from a representative online panel surve…
Psychophysiological effects of walking in forests and urban built environments with disparate road traffic noise exposure
ISRCTN48943261 ; Registered 23.11.2023
Living in regions of high anthropogenic night sky brightness (skyglow) decreases the recognition of light as a pollutant
Anthropogenic light is omnipresent in the landscape with recognised negative impacts on natural environments and public health. Current absence of light pollution mitigation is driven by limited understanding of citizens’ perceptions (feeling of safety, awareness of impact, support for mitigation measures). We used a stratified survey to explore the impact of residing in regions with different sky brightness levels on the perception of anthropoge…
A Captive Conspiracy Theorist
This article is a case study of a lawyer, Jean-Charles Le Prévôt, who was imprisoned from 1768 until the French Revolution. He was arrested for defaming and accusing several prominent individuals of being involved in a “famine plot,” a scheme to hoard grain in times of famine in order to sell it at exorbitant prices. As a Jansenist, he interpreted his social and political milieu through a biblical language of light and darkness, including a stron…
Urban Green Space and Health (11 works) · Geography (9 works) · Ecology (8 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Land Use and Ecosystem Services (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Biology (5 works) · Environmental Science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Political science (4 works)