Swiss environmental domains: a new spatial framework for reporting on the environment

Swiss Environmental Domains (SwissED) is an environmental classification of the territory based on key climatic, geologic and topographic variables that influence both natural and anthropogenic processes at various scales. It constitutes a new spatial framework to analyse data about our environment (e.g. biodiversity, land cover, demography, agriculture, economic activities) that does not replace existing ones (cantons, biogeographical regions), but simply complements them.