Marco Pütz

Marco Pütz is a senior researcher and project leader at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL) in Birmensdorf/Zurich, Switzerland. Since 2006 he is head of the WSL research group Regional Economics and Development.

Before joining the WSL, Marco Pütz has been a research fellow and has been teaching at the Institute of Economic Geography at the University of Munich, Germany. He holds a Diploma (Dipl. Geogr.) in Applied Geography/Spatial Development from Trier University, Germany and a PhD (Dr. oec. publ.) from the University of Munich.

His current research focuses on regional environmental governance, the politics of (re-)scaling environmental governance, local and regional strategies to climate change adaptation, strategic spatial policy making as well as urban and regional economics. He is involved in the research projects "CLISP Climate Change Adaptation by Spatial Planning in the Alpine Space" (Interreg IV Alpine Space Programme 2007-2013) and "ESPON CLIMATE Climate Change and Territorial Effects on Regions and Local Economies" (ESPON 2013 programme).
He is also a member of the Management Committee of COST Action TU0902 Integrated Assessment Technologies for the Sustainable Development of Urban Areas.