Ulrike Wissen Hayek

TL;DR: In this article, interactive rulers embedded in a 3D GIS-based procedural modeling environment can assist in making urban ecosystem services trade-offs explicit for sustainable urban planning, where the interactive rulers are slider bars that offer stakeholders the possibility to explore tradeoffs in ecosystem services reflected in different urban designs.

TL;DR: The VISULANDs project as mentioned in this paper was a transdisciplinary multiple-case study, set in Switzerland, that was part of the European Fifth Framework Program (2005) to enable public participation in landscape management, where researchers constructed 3D landscape visualizations to represent various scenarios of landscape change.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the results of a case study from the Swiss Alps, where they determined the willingness to pay for avalanche protection based on a choice experiment combined with virtual reality visualizations.

TL;DR: The results show that the different strengths of both abstract and realistic 3D visualization types are required in participatory workshops, and they are especially efficient at motivating stakeholders and enlarging the information base.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used settlement development scenarios for Switzerland, and analyzed their spatial implications using a set of four metrics, which allow for comparing the degree of urban sprawl in different regions.