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Annina Michel is a conservation social scientist with expertise in the social and political dimensions of protected areas and landscape planning. Her research focuses on Switzerland and engages with questions of equity and justice in environmental negotiations and participatory processes, influenced by social values. She leads a transdisciplinary research project funded by the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment, assessing social values associated with ecological infrastructure in Swiss nature parks through mixed-methods approaches. Michel also facilitates cross-border collaboration between Swiss and Georgian institutions on sustainable development in mountain regions, integrating learning through modular courses for geography students. She has published extensively on the negotiation dynamics surrounding national parks and has contributed to advancing understanding of social acceptance in conservation through synthesis studies and literature reviews. Currently, she holds a position as a group leader in Landscape Conservation Social Sciences at the University of Zurich's Department of Geography since 2021, engaging students in critical examinations of socio-political contexts in mountain areas through innovative teaching and research methodologies.
University of Zurich • Zurich, Switzerland
Leading research in the Department of Geography on landscape conservation and social sciences.
University of Zurich • Zurich, Switzerland
Working on a transdisciplinary project to assess social values associated with ecological infrastructure.
University of Zurich • Zurich, Switzerland
Conducting research and teaching in the Department of Geography.
University of Zurich • Zurich, Switzerland
Engaged in doctoral research focusing on the social political negotiations of national parks.
Department of Law