Wildnis 3 - Book of wilderness
Project management Plutzar Christoph
organizational unit Institute of Social Ecology (SEC)
duration 01.04.2016 to-
30.11.2016
Research project (§ 26 & § 27)
Program none
Funder National: Private Institutions
Competencies • Ressourcen und gesellschaftliche Dynamik
Abstract
Using insights and results of previous studies as a starting point, WWF Austria and the Instiute of Social Ecology Vienna present their findings of a spatially explicit wilderness assessment for Austria by publishing a “Book of wilderness”. They identified 39 areas bigger than 1000 hectares, showing a high wilderness quality. The study was based on the wilderness continuum concept, which assigns each locality a quantitative wilderness quality index. The book offers theoretical and practical aspects of wilderness, especially in the context of human influenced landscapes predominating Central-Europe. Moreover each of the 39 “wilderness areas” is introduced and its special characteristics discussed.