Who are we?

We are a team of researchers from the Ecosystem Management group at ETH Zürich. We work on understanding and evaluating solutions for complex socio-ecological systems.

Our research themes include agro-ecological management, forest and landscape restoration, ecological functions in landscape mosaics, and socio-technical transitions. We are also interested in decision-making processes that shape environmental outcomes.

In Scotland, our work is guided by a commitment to ensuring diverse perspectives are represented in negotiations over landscape use.

Achieving net zero, protecting biodiversity, or mitigating flood risk all require cooperation between diverse groups across large areas. We want to give stakeholders the tools to navigate complex systems through participatory engagement across public, private, and non-governmental actors.

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Bioregioning Tayside

Bioregioning Tayside aims at bringing people in Tayside together to build community resilience in the face of:

  • global heating – with major implications for survival of life as we know it,

  • a sixth mass extinction of plants and animals driven by us, which is collapsing biodiversity and threatening the food webs we depend on

  • a broken economic model – which is fuelling the climate crisis and biodiversity collapse and resulting in increasing social injustice and mental ill health

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They aim to build that community resilience through the concept of a Bioregion.

A Bioregion is a geographic area defined not by political or economic boundaries but through its natural features – its geology; topography; climate; soils; hydrology and watersheds; agriculture; biodiversity, flora and fauna and vegetation.

Bioregioning re-connects people with those natural systems, and each other, through the places where they live, enabling deeper understanding of the interdependence between them and human flourishing

Interested in partnering with us?

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