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On Wednesday 13th March we hosted Prof Dr. Margaret Awuor Owuor from the Wyss Academy for Nature with affiliation to the Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern.
From the 17th to 19th of January a small group of scholars with complementary expertise including among others geographers, landscape ecologists and environmental historians came together at Herzberg in the Jura mountains. In the workshop, participants looked at interdisciplinary approaches to (changing) landscape value with a focus on perception and diversity.
The Geocomputation unit supports the organization of the conference ILANSCO 2024.
What is the impact of natural landscapes on our wellbeing? To understand this, we study how positive emotions denote values of a place.
The conference covers original research contributions in conceptual, design, and implementations with geospatial data.
On 10th November, 2023, Maximilian Hartmann had his PhD Defense, entitled: "Building Spatially Explicit Policy Indicators Based on User-Generated Content: Resources, Methods and Implementations".
We use engaging and inclusive illustration-based interview methods to understand land management and conservation visions.
Urban toponymy unveils how people experience and interpret the urban landscape. Sara Racca from the Geocomputation group has been invited to the conference On the sense of a name:
Are you searching for the right holiday destination in Switzerland? Are you a park manager that wants to know more about how the park is used? In our recent publication you might find the answer!
How sustainable is urban transport in a given city and how can we quantify it? Zurich has pledged to be net zero by 2040.
Geocomp postdoc Inhye Kong received a UZH Postdoc grant with her proposal “Coupling Science and Narratives”. Beginning in October, she will investigate media text corpora to better understand how landscape values are changing as a result of climate change.
From a collaborative work with Professor Asifa Majid at Oxford, our new paper compared language-driven conceptualisation of landscapes.
A new study explores landscape preference globally. Led by Alex Dunkel of TU Dresden, this paper explores who, how and where sunset and sunrise is captured by two popular social media platforms, Flickr and Instagram.
Finding natural language which describes landscape can be like looking for a needle in a haystack. Manuel Baer used contributions to Window Expeditions and sentence transformers to find similar descriptions.
Newspapers, travel diaries, policy documents and even fiction offer rich material capturing relationships between people and surroundings.
Places are usually ambiguous and context dependent. Place functionality as a context in place descriptions is one of the prominent and distinguishing features of place.
Mina is a visiting researcher at the University of Zurich. She is pursuing her Ph.D. degree in geospatial information systems (GIS) at K. N. Toosi University of Technology (KNTU).
