Felix Kienast

Biographic Data

ID5912943
NAMEFelix Kienast
GIVEN NAMESFelix
FAMILY NAMEKienast
SIGNATUREKIENAST F
AFFILIATIONSSwiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
ORCID0000-0002-3812-3124
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS22
TOTAL CITATIONS24
WORKS AS AUTHOR22
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1985
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX2

  • Mapping open spaces in Swiss mountain regions through consensus-building and machine learning

    Open AccessMatteo Riva, Felix Kienast et al.ARTICLEApplied Geography2024

    The rapid expansion of tourism, transportation, energy, and agricultural infrastructure in mountain areas raises concerns about landscape fragmentation and impacts on aesthetic values. Effective delineation of these areas relies on negotiating various qualities that define them. In our study, we developed a collaborative consensus-building process with experts to map open spaces. Rather than collecting information on the factors characterizing op…

  • How do rural landscapes support place attachment in refugees? Results from a photo elicitation

    Open AccessMahsa Bazrafshan, Adrienne Grêt-Regamey et al.ARTICLELandscape Research2024References: 42

    During the initial stages of migration, refugees spend much time in urban environments. With longer stays, rural landscapes become increasingly important. However, little is known how rural landscape supports place attachment and bridges the gap between individuals’ former home and the host location. To reduce this research gap, we asked refugees to travel through rural Switzerland, creating a photo reportage that was later analysed using photo-e…

  • Greater place attachment to urban parks enhances relaxation

    Open AccessMahsa Bazrafshan, Reto Spielhofer et al.ARTICLELandscape and Urban Planning2023

    This work is an experimental contribution to assessing the relationship between place attachment and well-being in urban parks in a mobility and migratory context. Using virtual park visits, we aimed at finding out whether place attachment and familiarity with parks are related to physiological responses, i.e. relaxation/arousal. The experimental study involved bi-cultural residents and locals who were invited to experience two comparable urban p…

  • Integrating strategic planning intentions into land-change simulations

    Open AccessSimona Bacău, Darío Domingo et al.ARTICLESustainable Cities and Society2022

    Urban regions worldwide revert to scenario-based simulations to understand and cope with uncertain land-use changes and future land-use demands. Whereas scenarios account for a variety of driving forces to simulate land change, spatial planning has received limited attention. To improve understanding of the potential contribution of planning to urban land change, we developed and simulated scenarios of development for Bucharest, addressing the lo…

  • Integrating biodiversity

    Open AccessUeli Reber, Manuel Fischer et al.ARTICLEPolicy Sciences2022Cited by: 4References: 22

    The effective conservation and promotion of biodiversity requires its integration into a wide range of sectoral policies. For this to happen, the issue must receive attention across policy sectors. Yet, we know little about how attention to the issue evolves over time and across sectors. Drawing from the literature on environmental policy integration/mainstreaming and policy process theories, we develop competing hypotheses, expecting either incr…

  • The compliance of land-use planning with strategic spatial planning – insights from Zurich, Switzerland

    Franziska B Schmid, Felix Kienast et al.ARTICLEEuropean Planning Studies2021

    Although many planning systems are based on a combination of traditional land-use planning and strategic spatial planning, the interplay between the two approaches remains insufficiently investigated. Focusing on the Canton of Zurich, we applied a qualitative content analysis to extract strategic planning intentions from the Cantonal Structure Plan (1995). We quantitatively analysed the compliance of changes in municipal land-use plans between 19…

  • Factors influencing visual landscape quality perceived by the public. Results from a national survey

    Open AccessFlurina M Wartmann, Jacqueline Frick et al.ARTICLELandscape and Urban Planning2021

    In the context of significant landscape changes, understanding how residents perceive landscape quality is crucial for landscape policy-making and planning. However, while significant advancements have been made in measuring physical landscape change, social indicators assessing visual landscape quality perceived by the public are still underdeveloped. In this study, we use an indicator-based assessment of visual landscape quality that was collec…

  • Does rated visual landscape quality match visual features? An analysis for renewable energy landscapes

    Open AccessReto Spielhofer, Marcel Hunziker et al.ARTICLELandscape and Urban Planning2021

    Finding the “right” sites for developing renewable energy systems (RES) is one of the major challenges in planning strategies for energy transitions. The visibility aspects of such infrastructure are important factors that explain local opposition. Classical visibility and viewshed analyses of RES disregard people’s perceptions and estimations of new infrastructure. To address this void, we demonstrate an approach that combines rated visual lands…

  • The Forum Landscape, Alps, Parks (FoLAP)

    Open AccessFelix Kienast, Maarit Ströbele et al.ARTICLEMountain Research and Development2021

    Science-based decision-making—even if not favored by all political forces—is a must in finding sustainable solutions in today's complex world. But how can this process be made more effective? We at the Forum Landscape, Alps, Parks (FoLAP) believe that science-based decision-making is successful only if it is embedded in a well-mediated dialogue between science and practice. In addition, when land use decisions are at stake, “landscape” seems to b…

  • A Multispecies Assessment to Identify the Functional Connectivity of Amphibians in a Human-Dominated Landscape

    Open AccessGregory Churko, Felix Kienast et al.ARTICLEISPRS International Journal of…2020

    Preserving functional connectivity is a key goal of conservation management. However, the spatially confined conservation areas may not allow for dispersal and gene flow for the intended long-term persistence of populations in fragmented landscapes. We provide a regional multi-species assessment to quantify functional connectivity for five amphibian species in a human dominated landscape in the Swiss lowlands. A set of resistance maps were derive…

  • Comparing outdoor recreation preferences in peri-urban landscapes using different data gathering methods

    Open AccessFranziska Komossa, Flurina M Wartmann et al.ARTICLELandscape and Urban Planning2020

    The growing demand for a variety of outdoor recreation pursuits in peri-urban areas evokes the need for effective landscape management strategies based on reliable information about recreationists, their preferences and use of the landscape. Although a variety of methods are available for gathering this information, there is a lack of understanding if and how results from these methods are comparable. In this study we apply both direct engagement…

  • Rethinking Pumped Storage Hydropower in the European Alps

    Open AccessAstrid Björnsen Gurung, A Borsdorf et al.ARTICLEMountain Research and Development2016

    The European Alps are well positioned to contribute significantly to the energy transition. In addition to sites with above-average potential for wind and solar power, the “water towers” of Europe provide flexible, low-carbon power generation as well as energy storage. In the future, hydropower systems are expected to become more than mere electricity generators, serving a key role as flexible complements to intermittent power generators and as p…

  • Multi-scale analysis of urban sprawl in Europe

    Open AccessErnest I Hennig, Christian Schwick et al.ARTICLELand Use Policy2015Cited by: 18References: 46

  • Landscape – Increasingly Important for Environmental Decisions Landschaft – immer wichtiger für Umweltentscheidungen

    Felix KienastARTICLEGAIA - Ecological Perspectives…2014

    Die Landschaft spielt in der modernen Gesellschaft eine zentrale Rolle. Sie erbringt eine Vielzahl von Ökosystemleistungen. Das Zentrum Landschaft WSL stellt seinen integrativen Forschungszugang zur Ressource Landschaft vor – ein Gastbeitrag zu aktueller Schweizer Umweltforschung

  • Mountain Ecosystem Services

    Open AccessAdrienne Grêt-Regamey, Sibyl Hanna Brunner et al.ARTICLEMountain Research and Development2012

    Mountain regions provide diverse goods and services to human society. At the same time, mountain ecosystems are sensitive to rapid global development. Over the past 2 decades the number of papers mentioning ''ecosystem services'' (ESS) has risen exponentially. While the concept holds great potential to improve the societal relevance of conservation efforts, it is at risk of dying of misuse and reduction to a buzzword. The definitions of the term …

  • Suitability criteria for measures of urban sprawl

    Open AccessJochen A G Jaeger, René Bertiller et al.ARTICLEEcological Indicators2010

  • Evaluation of Landscape Change by Different Social Groups

    Open AccessMarcel Hunziker, Patricia Felber et al.ARTICLEMountain Research and Development2008

    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…

  • Factors influencing the acceptance of nature conservation measures—A qualitative study in Switzerland

    Open AccessAnita Schenk, Marcel Hunziker et al.ARTICLEJournal of Environmental Management2007

  • Earth Repair

    Open AccessFelix KienastARTICLEMountain Research and Development2007

  • A chironomid-based Holocene summer air temperature reconstruction from the Swiss Alps

    Open AccessOliver Heiri, André F Lotter et al.ARTICLEThe Holocene2003References: 13

    We developed a quantitative chironomid-July air temperature inference model based on surface sediments from 81 Swiss lakes and applied it to the Holocene subfossil chironomid record of Hinterburgsee, a small subalpine lake in the northern Swiss Alps (present-day mean July air temperature of 11.3°C). After smoothing to reduce the high between-sample variability of inferred temperatures, the reconstruction indicates July air temperatures of 10.4– 1…

  • Do natural science experiments influence public attitudes towards environmental problems

    Open AccessAstrid Wallner, Marcel Hunziker et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2003Cited by: 2References: 9

  • Air pollution

    Open AccessFelix KienastARTICLELand Use Policy1985References: 2