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Prof. Christoph Kueffer

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Organisation

Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences

Department

Landscape Architecture

Job title

Researcher

Based in

Switzerland

Languages

English, French, German

Publications

Kueffer, C. 2020. Plant sciences for the Anthropocene: What can we learn from research in urban areas? Plants People Planet 2: 286–289. https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.10124

Kueffer, C. 2020. Cities as Ecosystems and Buildings as Living Organisms. In: Ilka & Andreas Ruby (Eds.). The Materials Book. Ruby Press, pp. 206-210.

Akandil, C., Ismail, S. A., Kueffer, C. 2021. No green deal without a nature-based economy. GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society 30/4, pp. 281-283.

Daylight interests

Working on daylight in relation to

ForestsPlantsAnimalsSocietyCities

Why daylight matters in my work

Daylight reminds us that we depend together with millions of other living beings on the same natural processes, and we enjoy every morning the rising of the same sun whether we live in the global North or South.

Daylight Academy projects I worked on

Lightbook, Winter School “Perspectives on Daylight” (2019), Daylight and green cities

Good to know about me

I could also have worked as

Gardener

I would have loved to have a coffee with

Hannah Arendt

Most beautiful song of all time

Nightingale singing in the wild

Disciplines

Main discipline

Ecology

Other disciplines

Agriculture, Anthropology, Architecture, Art, Biology, Botany, Chemistry, Computer Science, Earth Sciences, Economics, Engineering and Technology, Ethnology, Geography, History, Journalism, Media Studies and Communication, Linguistics, Literature, Mathematics, Philosophy, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, Urban Design, Environmental Humanities

Fields of expertise

Ecology, Environmental Sciences, Landscape Architecture, Landscape Ecology, Plant Ecology, Urban Ecology, Transdisciplinarity