Peter Baccini

Peter Baccini

Peter Baccini (born September 24, 1939 in Zurich ) is a Swiss natural scientist . He is emeritus professor for material management and disposal technology in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich . His main focus was on resource and waste management as well as resource management in urban regions.

Live and act

After studying in the USA, Peter Baccini graduated as a natural scientist from the ETH Zurich and obtained a doctorate in coordination chemistry . He then worked for five years in research and development in the chemical industry in Basel and from 1974 to 1983 in water research at Eawag in Kastanienbaum . From 1974 to 1991 he was professor associé for environmental chemistry at the University of Neuchâtel , from 1983 to 2004 head of a research department at Eawag in Dübendorf , where he developed the concepts and scientific principles for sustainable waste management in Switzerland, and visiting professor at the universities of Göttingen and California Riverside (1981) as well as at the Technical University of Vienna and the Royal Technical University of Stockholm (1999). From 1991 to 2004 he was full professor for material management and disposal technology in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering at ETH Zurich. In an interdisciplinary research team (engineers, natural scientists, economists, architects) he examined the resource balance of densely populated regions. From 1994 to 1996 he was head of the department for cultural engineering and surveying at the ETH Zurich, where he made a significant contribution to the new course in environmental engineering. From 1994 to 2003 he also designed and managed the transdisciplinary urban development project Synoikos, which led to the Netzstadt method, together with Franz Oswald. The University of Neuchâtel awarded him an honorary doctorate in 2003 . From 2001 to 2006 he was President of the Swiss Academy of Sciences (SCNAT), of which he has been an honorary member since 2007. In 2013 he was awarded the Urban Mining Award.

He is married and has two children.

Services

«Baccini eloquently and convincingly linked scientific and social science disciplines. He did not shy away from contact with practice and politics. With unprecedented foresight and inexhaustible energy, he repeatedly opens up new fields of research, which were usually large enough to employ a new generation of young researchers. He quickly realized that - in order to address the urgent problems of the 1980s such as environmental protection and resource conservation - waste management had to be put into a larger framework. His regional approach therefore included the entire material budget. As a natural scientist used to working methodically clean, he and his team first developed analytical tools for recording the regional material balance. Material flow analyzes have become a ubiquitous instrument for examining processes and systems far beyond waste management. For Baccini it was just a small, first step. The next was working with architects and spatial planners to link the morphology and metabolism of regions. In the exemplary Synoikos project, the central questions are those about the function and design of future urban space. ”

- Appreciation from Paul H. Brunner, Vienna University of Technology, Institute for Water Quality, Resource Management and Waste Management

Fonts

• The Landfill - reactor and final storage. Springer, Heidelberg / Berlin / New York 1989, ISBN 0-387-50694-2 .
• Landfilling of solid residues from waste management. vdf Hochschulverlag, Zurich 1994, ISBN 3-7281-2108-8 .
• Together with Paul H. Brunner: Metabolism of the Anthroposphere. Springer, Heidelberg / Berlin / New York 1991, ISBN 3-540-53778-3 . 3rd new edition March 2012, MIT Press, Cambridge MA, ISBN 978-0-262-01665-0 .
• Together with HP Bader, G. Henseler, Daniel Oehler and R. Scheidegger: Methods and application of company material accounting. vdf Hochschulverlag, Zurich 1995, ISBN 3-7281-2214-9 .
• Together with Franz Oswald : Netzstadt - transdisciplinary methods for converting urban systems. 2nd edition vdf Hochschulverlag, Zurich 1999, ISBN 3-7281-2702-7 .
• Together with Franz Oswald and Mark Michaeli: Netzstadt: - Introduction to urban design. Birkhäuser Architektur, Basel / Boston / Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-7643-6962-0 . (also published in English ( Netzstadt - Designing the Urban. ISBN 3-7643-6963-9 ) and Chinese)
• Together with Daniel Müller and Daniel Oehler: Regional management of biomass. vdf Hochschulverlag, Zurich 1995.
• Together with Hans-Peter Bader: Regional material budget. Acquisition, evaluation and control. Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Heidelberg 1996, ISBN 3-86025-235-6 .
• Together with Stan Allen and Marc M. Angélil: Strategic Space, Urbanity in the 21st Century; Strategic Space Urbanity in the 21st Century. Internationales Forum für Gestaltung Ulm (editor), Anabas Verlag, Wetzlar 2000, ISBN 3-87038-321-6 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Peter Baccini in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Netzstadt
2. ↑ Curriculum vitae made of copper, wood and honey - three substances and one story. Editor: Swiss Academy of Sciences, Special Issue 1/04, September 2011
3. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ GAIA . 20/3 (2011), p. 150 f.