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Project ID:4 | Module:1 | Status: finished
The power of images – their creation, reproduction, and strategic use in the shaping of Alpine future

                           
Contact: PD Dr. Norman Backhaus
Winterthurerstrasse 190
8057 Zürich
e-mail: backhaus@geo.unizh.ch
Phone/Fax: 01 635 51 72 / Fax: 01 635 68 44

Study areas: Jungfrau-Aletsch-Bietschhorn (VS, BE), Entlebuch (LU)

Summary:

The project “The Power of Images” wants to make a contribution to the sustainable development of alpine habitats using image and discourse analyses. Sustainability is thereby seen as a process encompassing the three interrelated dimen...  ->read more


Description:
What images mark discussions on sustainable landscape development in the Alps?

Lively debates about the protection and use of the Alps are marked by largely unconscious images of the Alps held by those involved. These images vary consi...  ->read more

Other publications
and activities:
Poster:"The Power of Images": Wie wird Nachhaltigkeit visualisiert? [Urs Müller, (German)]
Abstract:The power of images - their creation, reproduction, and strategic use in the shaping of Alpine future [Ulrike Müller-Böker, Norman Backhaus, Urs Müller, (English)]




A Programme of the Swiss National Science Foundation