November
In search of politically feasible policy-packages for sustainable passenger transport: insights from choice experiments in China, Germany, and the USA
A recent publication on the Environmental Research Letters by Michael Wicki, Lukas Fesenfeld, and Prof. Dr. Thomas Bernauer on identifying politically feasible and effective policy-packages aimed at greening the transportation sector. They do so, using choice experiments with representative samples of citizens from China, Germany, and the USA.
Can corporate forest policies achieve global conservation objectives?
Prof. Dr. Rachael Garrett is the newly appointed Assistant Professor of Environmental Policy with dual affiliations with the Dept. of Humanities, Social and Political Science (D-GESS) and the Dept. of Environmental Systems Science (D-USYS). At the last ISTP colloquium, she presented her research on the potential of forest-focused supply chain policies (FSPs) for meeting global conservation objectives.
ETH Evening Talk: "Resilience through Technology. How We Protect Critical Infrastructures from the Unexpected"
The Center for Security Studies (CSS) at ETH Zurich will have the pleasure of hosting the ETH Evening Talk: "Resilience through Technology. How We Protect Critical Infrastructures from the Unexpected", on Wednesday, 11 December from 17:15 to 18:45.
How the road network determines traffic capacity
ETH researchers have shown that we can use the structure of urban road networks to predict their traffic capacity. This information enables urban and transportation planners to quantify how changes will influence traffic volumes. (Re-post from ETH News)
The social aspect of residential location choice: on the trade-off between proximity to social contacts and commuting
A new publication on the Journal of Transport Geography by Sergio Guidon, Michael Wicki, Prof. Dr. Thomas Bernauer and Prof. Dr. Kay Axhausen on the importance of social networks in explaining residential location decisions.
Two-day Conference 11-13 December: From Science to Practice - Strengthening Research Uptake to Achieve the SDGs
In the context of increasingly complex policy challenges and eroding trust in science and public institutions, how can we support effective, evidence-based policies to help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? Aiming at achieving the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development, the World Meteorological Organization hosts a two-day closed event in Geneva from Wednesday, December 11 to Friday, December 13.