Boris Salak
DI Dr.
University assistant
+43 1 58801 26111
Boris Salak is a social science landscape researcher who completed his studies in landscape planning and architecture at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), where he also earned his doctorate. He researches at the intersection of landscape, society, and technology, actively contributing to the understanding of the integration of technological advancements, societal transformations, and sustainable landscape development. In this process, he utilizes quantitative spatial and statistical analysis and simulation methods. After his tenure at BOKU (2008-2017), he moved to the Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL (ETH domain), where he worked until 2023. Since 2023, he has been active at TU Vienna in the FOB Landscape. Moreover, he is involved in the CAS "Urban Space Landscape" at ZHAW (Switzerland) and is part of the development of the world's first MOOC on landscape ecology (Module Landscape, Energy, and Society). He is actively involved in numerous highly cited research journals as author and reviewer.
- Current courses
- Climate-oriented Planning – Discourse on the (climate) crisis in planning
- Climate-oriented Planning – From tipping points to shifts in planning
- Integrative Design Studio Airport City Vienna. Spatial Interventions II. Break Spaces
- Landscape architecture
- Rudiments of Spacial Planning in Natural Environment
- Spatial Development Planning
- Research projects
- Publications
- Shifting from techno-economic to socio-ecological priorities (2024)
- Impacts of rising COVID-19 incidence and changed working conditions on forest visits in early 2020 of the pandemic: Evidence from Switzerland (2023)
- Landscape-technology fit: The missing link to society in renewable energy landscape development (2023)
- Impact of renewable energy infrastructure on the perceived landscape quality. (2022)
- The Woods are Calling: Auswirkungen der Corona-Pandemie auf die Waldbesuche in der Schweiz. (2021)
- How landscape-technology fit affects public evaluations of renewable energy infrastructure scenarios. A hybrid choice model (2021)
- Physiological and behavioral reactions to renewable energy systems in various landscape types (2021)
- steuerBAR? Wo wollen wir “Energielandschaften” und wo nicht? (2019)
Publications
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Selected publications