THE RECREATIONAL EFFECT OF CLIMATE-SMART FORESTS - INDICATORS FOR SOCIOCULTURAL FOREST MONITORING IN THE CONTEXT OF CLIMATE CHANGE
Abstract
Forests provide multiple services and have various effects on the habitat for humans, animals and plants. The current Austrian Forest Act is based on the principle of multifunctional forestry and specifies the protective, beneficial, recreational and welfare effects of forests. Climate change is increasingly affecting forest stocks and forestry faces major challenges in adapting to climate change. The recreational effect of the forest provides an important service for the general society and tourism. As the forest is undergoing major changes in the course of climate change, partly through active management towards a climate-smart forest, partly through altered natural succession due to changing site conditions (active and passive climate change adaptation), all effects and services of the forest are affected. Various forest monitoring systems map this change. However, to date there is no data collection system in Austria to record the recreational effect of climate-smart forests and to make their change measurable in the future. The aim of this project is to develop a concept for the extension of the Austrian forest monitoring systems to include the recreational effect of the forest and to test it. The result of the project is a coordinated and first-time monitoring system as a basis for future periodic surveys. Within the framework of the project, a nationwide population survey on the recreational effect of forest areas is planned in order to collect attitudes, knowledge, behaviour, perception and relationship of the population to the forest. In addition, expert interviews with landowners will be conducted and combined with the data from the population survey in order to also be able to analyse the view of forest managers on the recreational effect and to identify possible synergies and/or conflicts of interest at an early stage. In the final project phase, the indicators for recording the recreational effect of climate-smart forests will be linked to existing forest monitoring systems in order to collect them regularly in the future.
Project staff
Christiane Brandenburg
ao.Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing.Dr.nat.techn. Christiane Brandenburg
christiane.brandenburg@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-85312
Project Leader
01.09.2023 - 31.07.2025
Karolina Taczanowska
Priv.-Doz. Dipl.-Ing.Dr. Karolina Taczanowska
karolina.taczanowska@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-85332
Sub Projectleader
01.09.2023 - 31.07.2025
Renate Eder
Dipl.-Ing.Dr.nat.techn. Renate Eder
renate.eder@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-85326
Project Staff
01.09.2023 - 31.07.2025
Arne Arnberger
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Arne Arnberger
arne.arnberger@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-85311
Sub Projectleader
01.09.2023 - 31.07.2025
Silvia Scheibenreif
Silvia Scheibenreif B.Sc.
silvia.scheibenreif@boku.ac.at
Project Staff
01.09.2023 - 31.07.2025
Beatrix Schiesser
Dipl.-Ing. Beatrix Schiesser BA BSc
beatrix.schiesser@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-85339
Project Staff
01.09.2023 - 31.07.2025
Hannah Streinesberger
Hannah Streinesberger B.Sc.
hannah.streinesberger@boku.ac.at
Project Staff
01.09.2023 - 31.07.2025