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1992
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Felix Kienast is affiliated with the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research in Switzerland. Their research primarily addresses topics within environmental science and social sciences, with significant contributions to global and planetary change, sociology and political science, health toxicology and mutagenesis, ecology, and management, monitoring, policy, and law.

Their scholarly work covers a diverse range of topics including:

  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Urban Green Space and Health
  • Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy
  • Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
  • Place Attachment and Urban Studies
  • Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
  • Economic and Environmental Valuation

Kienast has published extensively in several key academic venues, notably:

  • Landscape and Urban Planning
  • Landscape Ecology
  • Urban Forestry & Urban Greening
  • Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
  • Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

Frequent collaborators include Marcel Hunziker, Adrienne Grêt-Regamey, Boris Šalak, Flurina M. Wartmann, and Reto Spielhofer, indicating a networked research approach across landscape and environmental studies.

Their recent research articles demonstrate a focus on public perceptions and the interaction between ecological metrics and societal factors. Selected papers include:

  • "Comparing outdoor recreation preferences in peri-urban landscapes using different data gathering methods," 2020, Landscape and Urban Planning
  • "Application of InVEST habitat quality module in spatially vulnerability assessment of natural habitats (case study: Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province, Iran)," 2020, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
  • "Factors influencing visual landscape quality perceived by the public. Results from a national survey," 2021, Landscape and Urban Planning
  • "Does rated visual landscape quality match visual features? An analysis for renewable energy landscapes," 2021, Landscape and Urban Planning
  • "Relating landscape ecological metrics with public survey data on perceived landscape quality and place attachment," 2021, Landscape Ecology

Kienast is also an author of book publications, such as "Landschaftsqualität in Regionalen Naturpärken. Ergebnisse der Landschaftsbeobachtung Schweiz LABES," published in 2023 by WSL-Berichte/WSL Berichte.

Best Publications

  • Predictive mapping of alpine grasslands in Switzerland: Species versus community approach

    Niklaus E. Zimmermann;Felix Kienast

  • Predicting the potential distribution of plant species in an alpine environment

    Antoine Guisan;Jean-Paul Theurillat;Felix Kienast

  • Suitability criteria for measures of urban sprawl

    Jochen A.G. Jaeger;René Bertiller;Christian Schwick;Felix Kienast

  • Mountain Ecosystem Services: Who Cares?

    Adrienne Grêt-Regamey;Sibyl Hanna Brunner;Felix Kienast

  • Indicators of ecosystem service potential at European scales: Mapping marginal changes and trade-offs

    Roy Haines-Young;Marion Potschin;Felix Kienast

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

    Oliver Heiri;André F. Lotter;Sonja Hausmann;Felix Kienast

  • Flooding tolerance of Central European tree and shrub species

    C. Glenz;Rodolphe Schlaepfer;I. Iorgulescu;F. Kienast

  • Assessing Landscape Functions with Broad-Scale Environmental Data: Insights Gained from a Prototype Development for Europe

    Felix Kienast;Janine Bolliger;Marion Potschin;Rudolf S. de Groot

  • Analysis of historic landscape patterns with a Geographical Information System — a methodological outline

    Felix Kienast

  • Biotic and abiotic variables show little redundancy in explaining tree species distributions

    Eliane S. Meier;Felix Kienast;Peter B. Pearman;Jens-Christian Svenning

  • Factors influencing the acceptance of nature conservation measures--a qualitative study in Switzerland.

    Anita Schenk;Marcel Hunziker;Felix Kienast

  • Participatory landscape development: overcoming social barriers to public involvement

    Matthias Buchecker;Marcel Hunziker;Felix Kienast

  • Potential impacts of changing agricultural activities on scenic beauty – a prototypical technique for automated rapid assessment

    Marcel Hunziker;Felix Kienast

  • Land use functions — a multifunctionality approach to assess the impact of land use changes on land use sustainability

    Marta Pérez-Soba;Sandrine Petit;Laurence Jones;Nathalie Bertrand

  • A simulated map of the potential natural forest vegetation of Switzerland

    B. Brzeziecki;F. Kienast;O. Wildi

  • GIS-assisted mapping of landscape suitability for nearby recreation

    Felix Kienast;Barbara Degenhardt;Barbara Weilenmann;Yvonne Wäger

  • Multi-scale analysis of urban sprawl in Europe: towards a European de-sprawling strategy

    Ernest I. Hennig;Christian Schwick;Tomáš Soukup;Erika Orlitová

  • Classifying the life-history strategies of trees on the basis of the Grimian model

    Bogdan Brzeziecki;Felix Kienast

  • Urban permeation of landscapes and sprawl per capita: New measures of urban sprawl

    Jochen A.G. Jaeger;René Bertiller;Christian Schwick;Duncan Cavens

  • Assessing structures in mountain forests as a basis for investigating the forests' dynamics and protective function

    Peter Bebi;Felix Kienast;Walter Schönenberger

Frequent Co-Authors

Harald Bugmann
Harald Bugmann ETH Zurich
Niklaus E. Zimmermann
Niklaus E. Zimmermann Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Matthias Bürgi
Matthias Bürgi Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Antoine Guisan
Antoine Guisan University of Lausanne
Peter H. Verburg
Peter H. Verburg Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Daniel Rigling
Daniel Rigling Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Heike Lischke
Heike Lischke Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Oliver Heiri
Oliver Heiri University of Basel
Roy Haines-Young
Roy Haines-Young University of Nottingham

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