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Matthias Bürgi

Researcher at Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research

Publications -  123
Citations -  6043

Matthias Bürgi is an academic researcher from Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research. The author has contributed to research in topics: Land use & Landscape ecology. The author has an hindex of 41, co-authored 111 publications receiving 5142 citations. Previous affiliations of Matthias Bürgi include Harvard University & University of Bern.

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Driving forces of landscape change — current and new directions

TL;DR: The proposed research directions include: studying landscape change across borders and transects, focusing on persistence as well as change, investigating rates of change, considering attractors of landscape change, targeting correlation and causality, and searching for precursors of landscapes change.
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The driving forces of landscape change in Europe: a systematic review of the evidence

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a systematic synthesis of 144 studies that identify the proximate and underlying drivers of landscape change across Europe and find that land abandonment/extensification is the most prominent (62% of cases) among multiple proximate drivers.
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Transitions in European land-management regimes between 1800 and 2010

Martin Rudbeck Jepsen, +50 more
- 01 Dec 2015 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the evolution of European land management over the past 200 years with the aim of identifying key episodes of changes in land management, and their underlying technological, institutional and economic drivers.
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Containing urban sprawl—Evaluating effectiveness of urban growth boundaries set by the Swiss Land Use Plan

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluate the effect and success of urban containment strategies by analyzing expansion of developed land, change in number of buildings, and building density within and outside building zones in four Swiss municipalities 1970-2000.