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Integrative sustainable widlife management in alpine ecosystems - Project part Recreation
Subproject of: Integrative sustainable widlife management in alpine ecosystems
- Project Leader
- Brandenburg Christiane, BOKU Project Leader
- Duration:
- 01.01.2015-31.08.2017
- Programme:
- BRIDGE 1
- Type of Research
- Applied Research
- Project partners
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AGES - Österreichische Agentur für Gesundheit und Ernährungssicherheit GmbH, Spargelfeldstraße 191, 1220 Wien, Austria.
Function of the Project Partner: Partner -
Federal Environment Agency, Spittelauer Lände 5, A-1090 Wien, Austria.
Function of the Project Partner: Partner -
Federal Forest Research Station, SeckendorFf-Gudentweg 8, 1130 Wien, Austria.
Function of the Project Partner: Partner -
Forstbetrieb Mayr-Melnhof Salzburg, Austria.
Function of the Project Partner: Partner -
Univ.of VetMed Vienna, Research Institute of Wildlife Ecology, Austria.
Function of the Project Partner: Partner
- BOKU Research Units
- Institute for Landscape Development, Recreation and Conservation Planning
- Institute of Wildlife Biology and Game Management
- Abstract
- Sustainable use of natural resources is one of the central goals of national and international environmental and resource politics. One part of it is the sustainable use of free-ranging ungulates and their habitats. These are challenged by a complex interaction of forestry and agriculture, hunting as well as recreation. To deny these interplay is assumably one reason for the enormous economic damage through wildlife browsing (over 218 million Euro annually in Austria's forestry). This project aims at evaluating the existing principles, criteria and indicators of sustainable wildlife management for alpine ecosystems and to develop this system for future use of chamois, ibex and red deer.
- Keywords
- Forestry; Tourism research; Landscape planning;
- Recreation research; Landscape planning; disturbance; Wildlife management;