Hanspeter Liniger has an assignment at the University of Bern and has been the former Director of the World Overview of Conservation Approaches and Technologies (WOCAT), a global network for sharing and using knowledge on Sustainable Land Management (SLM).He has a continued engagement in sustainable land and watershed management focussing on nature-based solutions for disaster risk reduction, assessment of on- and offsite impacts of land management practices (especially in mountain and dryland ecosystems), awareness raising using video and photography, and capacity building of professionals and students.
He is the lead author of the guidelines “Sustainable Rangeland Management in Sub-Saharan Africa”.