Sven-Erik Rabe

Focus in research and teaching

• Participatory approaches in spatial development
• Integrated landscape management
• Instruments for planning and decision support
• Modeling land use decisions
• Mapping and assessment of ecosystem services
• Land management tools

Current projects

• ValPar.CH - Values of Ecological Infrastructure
• Guidelines for the development process in rural areas (ELR)
• SELINA

Completed Projects

• Agricultural Planning & Rural Development Process (ELR)
• New approaches as part of the 2nd RPG revision
• ESMERALDA
• MESEU - Mapping of Ecosystems and their Services in the EU and its Member States 
• Accounting for ecosystem services and policy recommendations – TEEB – “Natural Capital Germany”
• Feasibility clarification: “Data availability for mapping ecosystem services in Switzerland”
• Ecosystem services in landscape development
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• The value of biodiversity measured in ecosystem services of dry meadows and pastures

Memberships and Activities

• Organization of the annual land management conference
• FSU -external siteAssociation of Swiss spatial plannerscall_made
• svu | asep -external siteSwiss Association of Environmental Expertscall_made
• geosuisse -external siteSwiss Association for Geomatics and Land Managementcall_made
• FIG -external siteInternational Federation of Surveyors (Commission: Spatial planning and development)call_made