Boris Salak

@tuwien.at

Univ.-Ass. DI Dr. nat tech.
TU Wien | Faculty of Architecture and Planning | Institute of Urban Design and Landscape Architecture | Research Unit Landscape Architecture and Landscape Planning

18

Scopus Publications

717

Scholar Citations

11

Scholar h-index

13

Scholar i10-index

Scopus Publications

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Integrating Physical and Social Variables to Enhance Understanding of Urban Forestry Key-Indicators: Insights from a Socio-Cultural Forest Monitoring
    B Salak, J Trummer, KT Hegetschweiler, M Fraefel, AC Wunderlich, ...
    Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 129311 , 2026
    2026
    Citations: 2
  • Exploring forest visits: Comparing experiences across Switzerland, Baden-Württemberg, and Bayern in Germany
    AC Wunderlich, M Hunziker, KT Hegetschweiler, N Bauer, T Palm, ...
    Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 129228 , 2025
    2025
  • Changing mindsets towards renewable energy landscapes in Switzerland: Comparing stated preferences in 2018 and 2022
    B Salak, M Hunziker
    Energy Research & Social Science 129, 104355 , 2025
    2025
  • Transforming Spaces: Rethinking Urban Parking Lots for a Sustainable Future
    N Svanda, N Pohl, B Salak
    Transformative action in an age of planetary crisis: Book of Abstracts-AESOP … , 2025
    2025
  • Balancing Nature and Urban Life: Insights from Public Perceptions of Cheonggye Stream Restoration in Seoul
    B Salak, S Ahn
    IALE 2025 European Landscape Ecology Congress, Landscape Perspectives in a … , 2025
    2025
  • How the COVID-19 pandemic changed forest visits in Switzerland: Is there a back to normal?
    AC Wunderlich, B Salak, KT Hegetschweiler, N Bauer, M Hunziker
    Landscape and Urban Planning 249, 105126 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 10
  • Erneuerbare Energien im Spannungsfeld gesellschaftlicher Ansprüche
    B Salak, R Spielhofer, M Hunziker, F Kienast, UW Hayek, ...
    Schweizerische Zeitschrift fur Forstwesen 175 (4), 170-176 , 2024
    2024
  • Shifting from techno-economic to socio-ecological priorities: Incorporating landscape preferences and ecosystem services into the siting of renewable energy infrastructure
    B Salak, M Hunziker, A Grêt-Regamey, R Spielhofer, U Wissen Hayek, ...
    PLoS One 19 (4), e0298430 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 21
  • Energiewende: kommunale und regionale Handlungsmöglichkeiten
    L Gisler, A Björnsen, G Bowman, M Buchecker, V Burg, A Hersperger, ...
    Merkblatt für die Praxis 75 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 1
  • Transition énergétique: possibilités d’action aux niveaux communal et régional
    L Gisler, A Björnsen, G Bowman, M Buchecker, V Burg, A Hersperger, ...
    Notice pour la pratique 75 , 2024
    2024
  • Impacts of rising COVID-19 incidence and changed working conditions on forest visits in early 2020 of the pandemic: Evidence from Switzerland
    AC Wunderlich, B Salak, KT Hegetschweiler, N Bauer, M Hunziker
    Forest policy and economics 153, 102978 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 13
  • Trade-off scenarios in energy transition: The impact of social preferences and ecosystem services
    B Salak, M Hunziker, A Grêt Regamey, R Spielhofer, U Wissen Hayek, ...
    EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts, EGU-17078 , 2023
    2023
  • Landscape-technology fit: The missing link to society in renewable energy landscape development
    B Salak, K Lindberg, F Kienast
    Science Talks 5, 100126 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 1
  • Impact on the perceived landscape quality through renewable energy infrastructure. A discrete choice experiment in the context of the Swiss energy transition
    B Salak, F Kienast, R Olschewski, R Spielhofer, UW Hayek, ...
    Renewable Energy 193, 299-308 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 43
  • Das Verhältnis der Schweizer Bevölkerung zum Wald: Waldmonitoring soziokulturell WaMos3 Ergebnisse der nationalen Umfrage
    KT Hegetschweiler, B Salak, AC Wunderlich, N Bauer, M Hunziker
    Eidg. Forschungsanstalt für Wald, Schnee und Landschaft WSL , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 20
  • Ground-mounted photovoltaic power plants in Alpine winter sports destinations: Guest, resident and non-visitor preferences
    A Beerli, R Rupf, B Salak, J Rohrer
    19. Nationale Photovoltaik-Tagung, Bern, 1.-2. Juli 2021 , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 1
  • Hybrid choice model dataset of a representative Swiss online panel survey on peoples’ preferences related to mixed renewable energy scenarios in landscapes and the effect of …
    B Salak, K Lindberg, F Kienast, M Hunziker
    Data in Brief 36, 107025 , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 11
  • How landscape-technology fit affects public evaluations of renewable energy infrastructure scenarios. A hybrid choice model
    B Salak, K Lindberg, F Kienast, M Hunziker
    Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 143, 110896 , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 68
  • The woods are calling: the influence of COVID-19 on forest visits in Switzerland.
    AC Wunderlich, B Salak, T Hegetschweiler, N Bauer, M Hunziker
    2021
  • The woods are calling: Auswirkungen der Corona-Pandemie auf die Schweizer Waldbesuche
    AC Wunderlich, B Salak, T Hegetschweiler, N Bauer, M Hunziker
    Erholsame Landschaft, 49 , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 8

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Patterns of acceptance and non-acceptance within energy landscapes: A case study on wind energy expansion in Austria
    P Scherhaufer, S Höltinger, B Salak, T Schauppenlehner, J Schmidt
    Energy Policy 109, 863-870 , 2017
    2017
    Citations: 146
  • Austria's wind energy potential–A participatory modeling approach to assess socio-political and market acceptance
    S Höltinger, B Salak, T Schauppenlehner, P Scherhaufer, J Schmidt
    Energy Policy 98, 49-61 , 2016
    2016
    Citations: 109
  • How landscape-technology fit affects public evaluations of renewable energy infrastructure scenarios. A hybrid choice model
    B Salak, K Lindberg, F Kienast, M Hunziker
    Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 143, 110896 , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 68
  • Physiological and behavioral reactions to renewable energy systems in various landscape types
    R Spielhofer, T Thrash, UW Hayek, A Grêt-Regamey, B Salak, J Grübel, ...
    Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 135, 110410 , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 68
  • A participatory integrated assessment of the social acceptance of wind energy
    P Scherhaufer, S Höltinger, B Salak, T Schauppenlehner, J Schmidt
    Energy research & social science 45, 164-172 , 2018
    2018
    Citations: 65
  • Do protected areas contribute to health and well-being? A cross-cultural comparison
    A Jiricka-Pürrer, V Tadini, B Salak, K Taczanowska, A Tucki, G Senes
    International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16 (7), 1172 , 2019
    2019
    Citations: 47
  • Impact on the perceived landscape quality through renewable energy infrastructure. A discrete choice experiment in the context of the Swiss energy transition
    B Salak, F Kienast, R Olschewski, R Spielhofer, UW Hayek, ...
    Renewable Energy 193, 299-308 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 43
  • Energetic tourism: exploring the experience quality of renewable energies as a new sustainable tourism market
    A Jiricka, B Salak, R Eder, A Arnberger, U Pröbstl
    WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment 139 (4), 55-68 , 2010
    2010
    Citations: 43
  • Shifting from techno-economic to socio-ecological priorities: Incorporating landscape preferences and ecosystem services into the siting of renewable energy infrastructure
    B Salak, M Hunziker, A Grêt-Regamey, R Spielhofer, U Wissen Hayek, ...
    PLoS One 19 (4), e0298430 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 21
  • Das Verhältnis der Schweizer Bevölkerung zum Wald: Waldmonitoring soziokulturell WaMos3 Ergebnisse der nationalen Umfrage
    KT Hegetschweiler, B Salak, AC Wunderlich, N Bauer, M Hunziker
    Eidg. Forschungsanstalt für Wald, Schnee und Landschaft WSL , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 20
  • Impacts of rising COVID-19 incidence and changed working conditions on forest visits in early 2020 of the pandemic: Evidence from Switzerland
    AC Wunderlich, B Salak, KT Hegetschweiler, N Bauer, M Hunziker
    Forest policy and economics 153, 102978 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 13
  • Hybrid choice model dataset of a representative Swiss online panel survey on peoples’ preferences related to mixed renewable energy scenarios in landscapes and the effect of …
    B Salak, K Lindberg, F Kienast, M Hunziker
    Data in Brief 36, 107025 , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 11
  • How the COVID-19 pandemic changed forest visits in Switzerland: Is there a back to normal?
    AC Wunderlich, B Salak, KT Hegetschweiler, N Bauer, M Hunziker
    Landscape and Urban Planning 249, 105126 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 10
  • The woods are calling: Auswirkungen der Corona-Pandemie auf die Schweizer Waldbesuche
    AC Wunderlich, B Salak, T Hegetschweiler, N Bauer, M Hunziker
    Erholsame Landschaft, 49 , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 8
  • Creating a powerful niche product-ways to successful branding of energy tourism
    A Jiricka, V Wirth, B Salak, U Pröbstl
    New Challenges for Tourism Promotion: Tackling High Competition and … , 2012
    2012
    Citations: 8
  • VV-TOMM: Capacity building in remote tourism territories through the first European transnational application of the tourism optimization management model
    A Jiricka, B Salak, A Arnberger, R Eder, U Pröbstl-Haider
    Sustainable tourism VI 187, 93 , 2014
    2014
    Citations: 6
  • steuerBAR? Wo wollen wir “Energielandschaften” und wo nicht
    B Salak, F Kienast, R Olschewski, R Spielhofer, U Wissen, ...
    Schweiz erneuerbar, 15-22 , 2019
    2019
    Citations: 5
  • ENERGYSCAPE–Recommendations for a Landscape Strategy for Renewable Energy Systems
    U Wissen Hayek, R Spielhofer, B Salak, M Hunziker, F Kienast, T Thrash, ...
    ETH Zurich , 2019
    2019
    Citations: 5
  • ENERGYSCAPE-Empfehlungen für eine Landschaftsentwicklung durch Anlagen erneuerbarer Energien in der Schweiz: Räumliche Potenziale, Konflikte, Präferenzen und Empfehlungen für …
    UW Hayek, R Spielhofer, B Salak, T Luthe, U Steiger, M Hunziker, ...
    Swiss Federal Office of Energy , 2019
    2019
    Citations: 3
  • The transition of the Austrian energy system to a high penetration of wind energy-a participatory integrated assessment of the social acceptance: final activity report
    P Scherhaufer, S Höltinger, B Salak, T Schauppenlehner, J Schmidt
    AUT , 2016
    2016
    Citations: 3